About MVP

Who We Are

Movement Voter Project is a one-stop shop for strategically investing in local organizations that win elections and transform policy.

We help Democratic and progressive donors channel funds to year-round local organizing groups that turn out key voters AND build long-term power.

MVP does the research so you don’t have to, maximizes your impact by investing in the best local voter engagement organizations, and streamlines your giving — like a “mutual fund for political donations.”

The MVP Model

The MVP model is simple: Target the battlegrounds, invest in local organizing, and organize the voters who can tip elections. When we do this at scale, we win the most pivotal races and build long-term power to enact transformative change.

Target

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

Invest

in the best local voter organizing groups, with a focus on youth, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and immigrant voters.

Organize

key voters who have the power to tip the scales.

Win

elections and transformative policy change at every level of government.

Read our Guide to Strategic Giving

"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 year-round, on-the-ground organizing groups with a focus on youth, voters of color, immigrant voters, LGBTQ+ voters, and others who bear the brunt of injustice in the United States.
  • What: We invest in groups that focus not only on elections but also the kind of year-round advocacy, organizing, and base-building needed to win durable policy change and governing power at every level.
  • Where: MVP targets federal battleground states; "long-term change" states we can transform through sustained investment; and "progressive governance" states where we can pass model policies.
  • How: Our vetting and grantmaking process is led by a team of State Advisors who bring years of experience focused on local, in-state movement building and political organizing.

See our grantmaking process
Meet our grantee partners
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

Year-round local organizing wins pivotal elections, builds power that lasts, and fuels 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.

Read more in our Guide to Strategic Giving

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:

On-the-Ground Expertise

Our grantmaking is led by State Advisors who are political experts and organizers with relationships with leaders on the ground.

Builders, Not Just Funders

Our Capacity Building Program gives our partners the tools, skills, and support to strengthen, sustain, and scale their work.

Long-term state power

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 power of marginalized voters, and creating transformative change.

Partnership, Not Paternalism

We believe funders do the most good when we practice partnership, not paternalism or blind trust. To do this, 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

We are not just here to move money, but to shift the culture of giving by building a movement of donors committed to funding deep, long-term organizing. Our donors are not just clients but also crucial partners in this work.

Read more in our Guide to Strategic Giving

Track Record

2016 - 2018

Building a Model to Scale Up Grassroots Turnout

We were deeply dismayed by the broader outcome of the 2016 election, but we did not stop organizing. 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

The Big Comeback

In the 2020 election cycle, MVP helped move over $45 million in political dollars to local partners, who helped defeat 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

Defying 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

Minimizing the Damage

In the face of a devastating loss at the top of the ticket, MVP partners helped secure victories that will help us tangibly improve millions of lives, block Trump’s agenda, build durable governing power in the states, and win back federal power in 2026 and 2028.

2024 Recap forthcoming.

Photo: API PA

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.

Meet our team
A collage of headshots of Movement Voter Project staff

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