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Tides’ Voter Action Fund was first launched in 2004, when the Fund made more than 100 grants totaling over $4 million. In 2006, the Voter Action Fund continues to invest in key organizations working to increase and strengthen civic participation in communities across the United States.
The first round of 2006 grants supports twelve grantees working on the long-term goals of election protection and increasing the mobilization capacity of the field, and the more immediate opportunities and imperatives of the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, protecting the Katrina vote, engaging immigrant communities, and supporting ballot initiatives in key states. All of these organizations place race, ethnicity, and class at the heart of their work, and prioritize the building of coalitions across issues, geographies and communities.
