Support J Street’s Grassroots Partners

J Street values long-term, grassroots organizing and its important role in registering and turning out voters in order to make our elections better reflect all our country’s citizens. We’re pleased to announce that J Street members can directly support centralized organizing efforts in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Missouri through our partners for the 2024 election cycle.

There are hundreds of civic engagement groups doing impactful work across the country. To ensure the most effective use of your contributions, we’ve opted to partner with centralized, statewide organizing hubs, in addition to a selection of smaller, more local partner organizations.

Questions? Reach out to Josh Binderman, Assistant PAC Manager, at [email protected].

Split a donation between all four organizations

Make the Road PA

 

Make the Road PA builds power for justice in Latinx communities, communities of color and working class communities, with organizing centers located in Allentown, Reading and Philadelphia.

According to 2020 census data, the Latino population in Pennsylvania grew by 45 percent, and Berks County is now 25% Latinx. Engaging these communities in local and statewide elections is absolutely essential.

In the 2022 midterm elections, Make the Road PA’s organizers and volunteers completed over 2.2 million calls and sent more than 1.5 million text messages in 66 out of the state’s 67 counties. They generated 150,000 successful conversations with 92,000 individuals, of whom 80 percent voted (compared with 58 percent of those not contacted). For the general election in 2024, the organization is looking to hire 14-15 new full time employees, and 200-300 paid canvassers.

Ohio Organizing Collaborative

 

Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC) is a grassroots organization that brings together base-building community organizing groups, student associations, faith organizations, labor unions, and policy institutes throughout Ohio. It is their mission to organize everyday Ohioans, and build transformative power for racial, social, and economic justice.

At the local and state levels, the OOC’s priorities are centered around economic justice, criminal
justice, and structural democracy reform through the expansion of voting rights. The OOC uses grassroots organizing and powerbuilding, large-scale civic engagement, and strategic communications to affect change.

Since 2012 the OOC has registered over 420,000 Ohioans to vote for the first time. In the runup to the 2022 midterms, they registered more than 45,700 Black and young voters in Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, and Cincinnati – more than any other organization in the state.

Voces de la Frontera Action, Wisconsin

 

Voces de la Frontera is a membership-based community organization led by low-wage workers, immigrants and youth whose mission is to protect and expand civil rights and workers’ rights through leadership development, community organizing and empowerment.

Voces has been helping register young people and Latinx people to vote since the 2004 election, alongside their sister organization Voces de la Frontera Action. In 2018, Voces de la Frontera Action has launched a historic effort called Voceros por el Voto to mobilize 48,000 Latinx voters and elect pro-immigrant, pro-worker candidates up and down the ballot.

Missouri Wins Investor Network

 

Missouri Wins Investor Network (MOWIN) is an organized community of individual and institutional donors working behind the scenes to assess the big picture needs, share intel, and pool resources toward the big investments that accelerate change in Missouri. MOWINs invests in organizations and leaders that drive a research-driven, multi-year strategy to transform Missouri politics. MOWIN invests in infrastructure to build a multiracial governing majority that will endure election after election. Through these investments, MOWIN hopes to transform the conditions candidates face come election time and how elected leaders can govern.

In the first four years of its existence, MOWIN has registered over 88,000 voters, helped flip 6 state House seats, and directed contributions to 17 grassroots organizations.

MOWIN invests in the organizations that provide critical and core capacities to grassroots organizations and campaigns. These organizations are the building blocks for state political power that transcends any one election or candidate, but impacts all those elections and candidates. MOWIN’s commitment to organizations is consistent, not boom and bust like political donations that come at election time. And that commitment is long term, which allows organizations to tackle long term opportunities and challenges, not just today’s candidate.