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Through its grantmaking, Tides Voter Action Fund is working to reflect the changing demographics of the United States and encourage the participation of traditionally under-represented or disengaged communities, such as people of color, youth and low-income families and individuals. Many organizations are effectively reaching these communities by incorporating different entry points and issues into their civic participation work, such as low-wage organizing, the environment or faith. Below are examples of some organizations that are doing this important work.
| Organization Name | Organization Description | Grant Amount |
| The Apollo Alliance | This alliance is building a broad coalition within the labor, environmental, business, urban, and faith communities, and developing public education campaigns in support of job development and energy independence. |
$25,000 |
| California Primary Care Association | California Primary Care Association is working with the Community Clinics Initiative to register voters and implement a clinic-based GOTV effort. |
$75,000 |
| Campaign for Communities | Campaign for Communities a partnership comprised of the Earth Day Network and its partners NAACP National Voter Fund, Project Voter and the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project - is coordinating national voter registration efforts aimed at young people, specifically in African American and Latino communities. |
$365,000 |
| Center for Community Change's | This Center's Community Voting Project builds on an existing infrastructure and a strong track record of organizing low-income communities. The project is registering and mobilizing low-income communities in Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, New Mexico and Wisconsin. |
$150,000 |
| El Pueblo | El Pueblo seeks to strengthen North Carolina's Latino community's civic participation through El Pueblo Votes! with voter education, promotion of citizenship, voter registration and GOTV activities. NC is a new hub for Latino immigrants, who are one of the fastest and newest growing constituency groups in the Southeastern United States. El Pueblo integrates civic participation into all of its work as a service provider and proactively and organically engages its community. |
$31,667 |
| Fannie Lou Hamer Project | "Hamers Trainers" Training and Education Project. Dedicated to making campaign finance reform a civil rights issue, a grant to the Fannie Lou Hamer Project adds an important voice to this debate. Their training program reaches community-based organizers throughout the African American and Latino communities. |
$25,000 |
| Florida ACORN | Florida ACORN's Economic Justice and Minimum Wage Campaign will mobilize low-income, immigrant and minority voters who were most negatively affected by the irregularities of the 2000 election. This pro-active use of the ballot initiative process to mobilize the disenfranchised serves as an important model for progressive movements. |
$230,000 |
| NAACP National Voter Fund | NAACP National Voter Fund's Empowerment 2004 will register and mobilize African American voters through a nationally coordinated campaign built on an increasing strength of locally-based partners and affiliates. Targeted states include Ohio, Florida, Missouri, New Mexico and Pennsylvania. |
$91,000 |
| The NALEO Educational Foundation | The NALEO Educational Foundation's Voces del Pueblo program will focus on mobilizing 150,000 Latino registered voters in highly populated Latino communities. Voces del Pueblo develops messages that resonate and motivate the Latino communities to vote and shares these with organizations across the United States. NALEO's national scope and ability to provide resources and expertise to local groups complements the regional and local work being done in these communities. |
$50,000 |
| The National Interfaith Committee of Worker Justice (NCIWJ) | NCIWJ seeks to register and mobilize low-wage and immigrant workers through congregations. NICWJ has solid contacts with congregations that reach low-wage and immigrant workers in medium to large cities, where there are communities that do not participate in the political process. NICWJ is also relying on youth organizers from several denominations to register and mobilize voters. |
$20,000 |
| ¿Oíste? | ¿Oíste? is an innovative Massachusetts-based organization working to bridge the gap between voter participation among Latinos in their home countries (where participation is upwards of 80% and 90%) with participation here. |
$25,000 |
| People for the American Way | People for the American Way is working to turn out infrequent women voters by engaging new voters in issues they care about-in this case childcare. By adding the issue of childcare to local political agenda, PFAW seeks to engage the other half of women who do not turn out to vote, and therefore strengthen and deepen the level of women's political participation. |
$30,000 |
| Project Vote | Project Vote's Latino Voter Registration Project will employ its established voter mobilization networks to reach voters in the increasingly powerful Latino community in 13 states: Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin. |
$145,000 |
| Voces de la Frontera | Voces de la Frontera is working to register and turn out 5,000 low-wage, Latino workers in Wisonsin. Voces is part of the Community Voter Project and is focusing on engaging the Latino community in WI-the fastest growing population group in the state. Successful voter registration and turn out can only be implemented with local connection, which Voces has, as they already organize around immigrant issues, legalization and access to education. |
$15,000 |
