About MVP

Who We Are

Movement Voter Project is a one-stop shop for investing in year-round organizing and movement building to shift culturewin elections, and transform policy.

We help Democratic and progressive donors channel funds to the best and most promising organizations building power to transform our communities, states, and country over the long term.

MVP does the research so you don’t have to, maximizes your impact by investing in the most effective organizations and innovative strategies, and streamlines your giving — like a “mutual fund" for political giving.

The MVP Model

Target

the most pivotal places and races, both now and for the long term.

Invest

in year-round organizing and movement building, with a focus on youth, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and immigrant voters.

Organize

key constituencies that can tip the scales and shift the culture.

Win

governing power and transformative policy change.

"If you're just doing election work, that's very transactional. Our goal is to be transformative. We are trying to transform the entire political landscape in this country."

Latosha Brown, Co-Founder of Black Voters Matter

What We Do

We are building power toward a hopeful new progressive era in which everyone can flourish.

Our investment strategy:

  • Who: We support hundreds of groups organizing the broad-based, multiracial coalition we need to win power and progress for decades to come: working people, young people, and voters across urban, rural, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ communities.
  • What: We invest in groups doing the year-round organizing, base building, and advocacy needed for durable culture change, policy breakthroughs, and governing power at every level.
  • Where: We target federal battlegrounds; "long-term progress" states we can transform through sustained investment; and "progressive governance" states where we can pass model policies.
  • How: Our grantmaking is led by national and state advisors with years of experience in organizing, social movements, and political strategy.
A collage of various activists, volunteers, and protestors working to increase voter turnout.

Clockwise from top left: Advance Carolina (NC); Detroit Action (MI); Georgia Alliance (GA); LUCHA (AZ); Leaders Igniting Transformation (WI); 1Hood Power (PA)

The Case for MVP

We believe year-round local organizing is the most effective long-term strategy for winning elections, building power that lasts, and fueling policy change — and if you want to fund local organizing, MVP makes it easy.

Local organizing wins elections.

Organizing groups deploy the local trusted messengers best equipped to mobilize the hardest-to-reach voters who can flip the closest elections.

Local organizing builds power that lasts.

Organizing groups work year-round on the ground to grow grassroots leadership and build political influence that grows year after year.

Local organizing fuels policy change.

Organizing groups mobilize their constituencies and push decision-makers to advance progressive policy change at every level of government.

MVP makes it easy to fund local organizing.

Like a "mutual fund" for voter organizing, MVP constantly monitors close races, vets groups, and calibrates funding for maximum impact.

What Makes MVP Different?

There are so many effective organizations to give to and through — and we coordinate closely with many of them. We are all in this together! Here are some of the ways MVP is fairly unique:

Grantmakers with Deep Expertise

Our National and State Advising Team has years of expertise in organizing, social movements, and politics.

Builders, Not Just Funders

Our Capacity Building Team supports our grantee partners and allies to strengthen, sustain, and scale their work.

State-Level Power from the Ground Up

We invest in a diversified “ecosystem” of emerging, growing, and established groups working in key states to build lasting power.

"Triple-Bottom-Line" Investment Strategy

We invest in the people, places, and races key to winning elections, building bottom-up power, and creating transformative policy change.

Partnership, Not Paternalism

We proactively collaborate with our grantees in a way that challenges them to think big, be strategic, and realize their potential.

Building a Movement of Donors

Our Donor Organizing Team & volunteer donor organizers are building a movement of committed donors at all levels.

Track Record

2016 - 2018

Laid the Foundation

Deeply dismayed by the 2016 elections, MVP set out to build a scalable model for grassroots-based voter turnout. In Alabama’s special Senate election in 2017, MVP helped seed, incubate, and fund two major locally-driven, Black-led GOTV efforts: Woke Vote and Black Voters Matter Fund. These groups drove historic black turnout that year, and built power for expanded organizing in subsequent years.

Photo: Black Voters Matter Fund

2019 - 2020

Flipped Key States

In the 2020 election cycle, MVP helped move over $45 million in political dollars to local partners, who helped beat Trump by just 43,000 votes across three states (Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin) and gain pivotal state-level victories across the country.

Then, on January 5, 2021, they helped deliver an unprecedented U.S. Senate double runoff victory in Georgia, securing a narrow Democratic governing trifecta.

Photo: 215 People's Alliance

Read our 2020 Impact Report

2021 - 2022

Defied the Odds

2022 was supposed to be a Red Wave. But MVP partners organized in every competitive House, Senate, and statewide race, picking up a 52nd Senate seat, coming just 6,675 votes shy of holding the House, and expanding Democratic governing power in states across the country.

Photo: Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA)

Read our 2022 Impact Report

2024

Secured Key Wins

In the face of devastating losses in the 2024 elections, MVP local partners helped secure critical wins from the Senate down to school boards, all of which will help us meaningfully block Trump’s agenda, improve millions of lives, build state-level power, and win back federal power in 2026 and beyond.

Read our preliminary 2024 post-election report-out

Photo: Down Home North Carolina

Our Team

The MVP team has deep roots in statewide organizing ecosystems and is dedicated to helping move money and resources to support local grassroots groups across the country. We are united by our vision that building deep grassroots power on a local level year-round will expand access to democracy and create a better world where we can all thrive.

A collage of headshots of Movement Voter Project staff

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