Organizing Directory
Find a grassroots group doing canvassing, phone banking, protests, or GOTV work near you — or working nationally on an issue you care about.
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22 organizations found.
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE)
ACCE is a member-led, statewide California organization with 16,000+ members across six counties that builds power through direct action, tenant organizing, and issue campaigns (e.g., tenant protection and code-enforcement fights), rooted in ground-up neighborhood organizing.
Center for Popular Democracy / CPD Action
CPD partners with and provides training, strategy, and coordination to a network of 50+ base-building affiliate organizations and organizing alliances across roughly 34 states plus Puerto Rico and D.C., supporting their direct-action and electoral organizing campaigns; note: CPD itself does significant policy research and legislative advocacy alongside its base-building/coalition support role, so it is borderline toward the advocacy side even though its affiliates (e.g., Florida Rising, Detroit Action, LUCHA) do the frontline canvassing and organizing. Operates via a distributed network of 50+ state and local affiliate organizations nationwide.
Detroit Action
Detroit Action is a member-led community organizing group that builds a base of working-class Black and Brown Detroiters through neighborhood-driven organizing committees that remain active on housing, economic justice, and civic engagement campaigns beyond election cycles.
Down Home North Carolina
Down Home organizes multi-racial, working-class communities in small-town and rural North Carolina through member-led, county-based chapters engaged in year-round organizing, leadership development, voter registration, and issue campaigns such as Medicaid expansion.
Faith in Action (formerly PICO National Network)
Faith in Action is the nation's largest faith-based community organizing network, using a congregation-based organizing model across 44 affiliated federations and 8 statewide networks in 17 states to run voter education, turnout, and local issue campaigns rooted in congregations.
Florida Rising
Florida Rising organizes, educates, and mobilizes communities across Florida through door-to-door canvassing, phone and text programs, and cultural events as part of its voter outreach and equity campaigns; note: Florida Rising is also a registered lobbying organization and CPD affiliate that publishes an annual legislative agenda, so it blends grassroots canvassing with statehouse lobbying.
Indivisible
Indivisible describes itself as a nationwide movement of thousands of autonomous, locally-led Indivisible groups that pressure elected officials through grassroots civic action, coordinating with national campaigns while organizing independently at the local level; operates via a distributed network of roughly 6,000 local chapters nationwide.
Industrial Areas Foundation
IAF is the longest-standing U.S. network of local congregation- and civic-based organizing affiliates (65 affiliates across the US and abroad), training citizen leaders to identify local issues and take collective action, historically on housing, wages, and education.
LUCHA (Living United for Change in Arizona)
LUCHA organizes Arizona's low- and moderate-income and minority communities through door-to-door canvassing (a stated goal of one million doors in 2024), phone banking, and grassroots campaigns for social, racial, and economic justice.
Moms Demand Action
Moms Demand Action is the volunteer grassroots arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, organized into a chapter in every state plus hundreds of local groups whose volunteers show up to organize events, canvass, phone bank, petition, and march for gun-violence-prevention laws; note: its parent Everytown also engages substantially in lobbying, but Moms Demand Action's own chapter structure is built specifically for volunteer mobilization.
MoveOn (MoveOn Civic Action / Mobilizers)
MoveOn recruits, trains, and coaches a national network of volunteer 'Mobilizers' who organize canvassing, phone banks, text banks, rallies, and lobby visits in their own communities as part of MoveOn's voter mobilization and relational-organizing programs.
National Domestic Workers Alliance
NDWA is a federation of roughly 70 grassroots domestic-worker affiliate organizations and 7+ local chapters that organizes nannies, house cleaners, and caregivers through leadership development, storytelling, and strategic campaigns to win state Domestic Worker Bills of Rights.
New Georgia Project
New Georgia Project registers and mobilizes Black, Latinx, AAPI, and young Georgians to vote by meeting people directly at their homes, community events, churches, and campuses, and has registered over 500,000 Georgians through in-person outreach.
New York Communities for Change
NYCC is a New York City-based ACORN-successor organization that builds people power through neighborhood, tenant, and worker organizing, combining direct action, door-to-door canvassing, and legislative advocacy campaigns such as Housing Justice for All and Fight for $15.
NextGen America
NextGen America mobilizes young people on college campuses and online through registration drives, canvassing, and campus organizing in nearly 20 states to turn out the youth vote for progressive candidates and causes.
Our Revolution
Our Revolution grew out of Bernie Sanders's 2016 campaign into a member-driven network of state organizations and local/campus chapters that organize volunteers to elect progressive candidates and run issue campaigns down the ballot.
People's Action
People's Action is a national network of roughly 40 grassroots member organizations across 30 states that invests in base-building, leadership development, door-knocking, and direct action to run local issue campaigns, including a rural organizing program that has logged hundreds of thousands of door-knocks.
Sunrise Movement
Sunrise Movement is a youth-led climate organization built around local 'hubs' (chapters, community hubs, and student hubs) that its own site describes as the basic organizing unit for building people power through direct action, protest, and electoral pressure campaigns for a Green New Deal.
Swing Left
Swing Left organizes volunteers into local groups that canvass, phone bank, and write letters to voters in targeted swing districts, and runs 'Ground Truth,' a program built around door-to-door and phone conversations to rebuild voter trust ahead of elections.
Texas Organizing Project
TOP runs door-to-door canvassing and get-out-the-vote programs targeting Black and Latino voters in the Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio metro areas, combined with member-driven issue campaigns and political organizer field staff in each county.
Working America
Working America is the AFL-CIO's community affiliate for non-union workers; its professionally trained canvassers go door-to-door nationwide to recruit members, educate voters, and mobilize working families around jobs, healthcare, and election turnout.
Working Families Party
The Working Families Party recruits and trains volunteers to canvass, phone bank, and text voters and runs state-level chapters that organize working-class communities to elect worker-friendly candidates and build local political power; operates via state chapter affiliates in roughly a dozen states including New York, Connecticut, Oregon, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Illinois.