"How can I do more than just donating?" Look no further!
Below are ways to take action right now — both with MVP and with our grantee partners and non-grantee allies directly as they work to defeat authoritarianism, win power, and advance policy change.
Organize donors with MVP
"How can I help fundraise for progressive political change?" Help MVP grow our movement of donors!
The MVP Donor Organizing Program is a political home for donor-activists who want to help MVP fund the year-round organizing and movement-building work we need to transform our country.
Donor organizing — fundraising from one's community and organizing others to do the same — is one of the highest-impact ways we all can make a difference.
The case for volunteer donor organizing
- Locally based organizing increases voter turnout more than impersonal voter contact.
- As a volunteer, raising funds for local organizing can actually produce the most votes per hour.
- There is more untapped money in each of our networks than we realize.
Organize locally
"How can I get involved right where I live?"
- Working Families Party
- Indivisible
- Black Voters Matter
- Care In Action
- Showing Up for Racial Justice
- Third Act
- Swing Left
What about MVP's hundreds of local grantee partners?
Find MVP partners near you: Due to heightened security concerns in the current political environment, we are keeping our grantee list confidential to protect them from bad actors. Please fill out our Supporter Vetting Form, and we will follow up with you.
Please note: Because MVP partners are led by and for the communities they serve, they cannot always absorb volunteers not from or reflective of those communities — nor would it be strategic in many cases to do so. Please keep this in mind and approach them with a spirit of service and humility.
Get out the vote
"What are the best get-out-the-vote organizations to volunteer with?"
MVP doesn’t lead GOTV work ourselves; instead, we focus on funding the community-based organizing groups already doing this work in the most critical places and races.
Top recommendation: Seed the Vote
Seed the Vote (STV) recruits, trains, and supports volunteers from across the country to door-knock and phonebank with locally rooted organizations — most of whom are MVP grantees! — in the most critical swing states and races.
State grantee partners
- Carolina Federation and Down Home NC: People from all across the country are rallying behind North Carolinians in solidarity - join in the unified effort to reach as many voters by phone as possible across the state.
- Changing the Conversation Together (Pennsylvania): Have deep, story-based conversations with infrequent voters in Harrisburg, in one of the closest House races in the country. Join a canvass, catch the bus from Philadelphia, or sign up for an Election Day shift.
- Maine Youth Power (Maine): Young Mainers are knocking doors, phone banking, and texting their peers in a pivotal U.S. Senate race and in the 2nd Congressional District. Young people can join a weekend canvass or phone bank through Election Day.
More great options
- Working Families Party: State by state and community by community, WFP is building a political home for all of us who see bigotry, bailouts, and business as usual in our political system and ask, “Is that the best we can do?" Join a virtual phone bank to call voters in battleground House districts.
- People’s Action is a proud national network of 38 member-based, power-building organizations in 29 states with more than a million members and tens of thousands of national volunteers. Volunteers are calling voters in Ohio and other key states.
- Indivisible is a nationwide movement of everyday people organizing on the ground in all 50 states to stop the rise of authoritarianism in the United States and to build a real democracy that works for all of us. Join a daily phone bank, or check if their "Neighbor2Neighbor" canvassing program is in your area.
- Swing Left helps win elections for Democrats by making it as easy as possible for anyone to have maximum impact on the elections that determine the balance of power in our country.
Protect our elections
"What are the best election protection groups to volunteer with?"
No Kings Coalition
The No Kings coalition has mobilized millions to affirm that this nation belongs to its people, not to kings. Now it’s preparing its nationwide network to defend the vote.
Other grantee opportunities
Now recruiting for current and forthcoming election protection programs:
Non-grantee opportunities
- Election Protection Coalition
- Power the Polls (become a poll worker)
Defend immigrant communities
"How can I help stop ICE’s attacks on our communities?"
ICE out for good
Horrified and outraged by the authoritarian occupation of our cities by ICE? Tell your members of Congress to rein in ICE, and demand that Target and other corporations end their cooperation with ICE.
Run for office
Training resources
Freedom trainers
When we refuse to comply, authoritarians fall. Freedom Trainers trains people in the proven tools of collective noncooperation — the same strategies that have toppled authoritarian regimes around the world.