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2006 Grantees

Building the Organization and Technological Capacity and Expertise of Civic Organizations ($550,000)

Organization Name Organization Description Grant Amount
Wellstone Action Fund
Wellstone Action Fund trains nonprofits who wish to increase their levels of civic participation through "501 c(3) camps" that will take place in late August and early September. Each camp will train between 120 and 150 participants.
$61,000
Center for Progressive Leadership
Center for Progressive Leadership will carry out five nonpartisan activist training programs where activists and organizations will learn about opportunities for engaging in political activism beyond voter mobilization efforts. These trainings will be free or offered at a greatly reduced cost.
$55,000
Democracy South
Democracy South has developed a Precision Voter Targeting Service, a voter mapping system that grassroots 501c(3) voter mobilization campaigns can use to improve their voter registration and GOTV efforts. Their partnerships include other Voter Action Fund grantees, including the Center for Community Change.
$25,000
Demos
Demos plans to produce accessible and usable materials about the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and help organizations monitor its implementation. By sharing its tools and expertise, Demos strengthens the capacity of organizations around the United States to monitor and implement HAVA on a local level.
$15,000
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation is providing litigation coordination and leadership as well as activism support focusing on the tech community. Specifically, this grant will allow EFF to coordinate activist work on verified voting issues.
$29,000
E-Volve Foundation
E-Volve Foundation's AdvoKit is a web-based application for powering Voter ID/GOTV field operations in the 2004 electoral season. It is being provided to nonprofit community groups organizing voter registration/GOTV efforts. The tool can affect organizations across the United States, regardless of size.
$20,000
Michigan Environmental Action (with Ameregis)
A model interactive mapping project to inform voter registration and GOTV efforts in the key state of Michigan working in partnership with Michigan Environmental Action. This grant is a strong complement to the grant to Democracy South, which is developing a similar tool likely to be used in Florida.
$25,000
National Voice
National Voice is a coalition of non-profit and community groups working to maximize public participation in the democratic process. National Voice has developed an electronic library of technical, legal, and organizing information, and an on-line clearinghouse of effective tools and strategies. National Voice is also providing message development expertise to grassroots organization through its "November 2" campaign.
$320,000
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