Ohio Voice 2025 Partners

Below are the partners we support who are building progressive power with year-round civic engagement in their communities.

Abortion Forward

To expand and protect abortion access, we use the political process to champion policy changes, mobilize activists and voters, and endorse and support elected officials working to protect bodily autonomy.

Black Appalachian Coalition

The mission of the Black Appalachian Coalition (BLAC) is to build a multi-state campaign that amplifies black voices, dismantles the colonized narrative of Appalachia, and uses story-based strategies and solutions that center the voices and lived experience of Black Appalachians.

Black Men Build

Black Men Build (BMB) is a grassroots membership organization whose mission is to give Black Men and their families all the tools necessary to become a powerful organized political force for liberation. We recruit, develop, and organize Black Men in ways that no other organization is doing with a commitment to love, grace, accountability, and power. We are bringing Black men into the movement for racial, gender, and social justice through healing, power-building campaigns, and political education.

Black Queer & Intersectional Collective (BQIC)

Black Queer & Intersectional Collective is a grassroots community organization that works towards the liberation of Black queer, trans, and intersex people from all walks of life through direct action, community organizing, education on our issues, and creating spaces to uplift our voices.

Campus Vote Project

Campus Vote Project works with universities, community colleges, faculty, students and election officials to reduce barriers to student voting. Our goal is to help campuses institutionalize reforms that empower students with the information they need to register and vote.

Cleveland VOTES

Cleveland VOTES is a nonpartisan, democracy-building movement that works to reconstruct and strengthen power through active participation of our collective partners. Guided by a system of networks, we promote informed, action-oriented mobilization that shifts power towards Equitable Civic Engagement and Infrastructure.

Columbus Education Justice Coalition

We envision a city that steers resources to ensure that ALL Columbus City Schools are welcoming, equitable learning communities where ALL students, staff, and families can do more than survive – they can thrive. Through our work with the Columbus Education Justice Coalition, we will bring awareness that engages our community to advocate for and to provide solutions to the various issues plaguing the Columbus City School system.

Columbus Stand Up

Columbus Stand Up! is a non-profit organization that directly supports communities, grassroots organizes, and amplifies community voices in the political process.

Common Cause Ohio

Common Cause Ohio is committed to protecting and improving voters’ rights and access to the ballot in Ohio and improving transparency and accountability in government.

Equality Ohio

Equality Ohio identifies and transforms systems and institutions so LGBTQ+ Ohioans can fully access legal and lived equality.

Faith Choice Ohio

Faith Choice Ohio elevates the moral power of faith communities to expand abortion access and to advance reproductive health, rights, and justice. Through education, advocacy, and direct service, we are committed to empowering advocates for abortion justice & reproductive freedom.

Gem City Action

Gem City Action is dedicated to building a more inclusive and equitable Dayton by advocating for human rights, supporting marginalized groups, and promoting social justice. Our mission is to create safe spaces, uplift underrepresented voices, and engage in grassroots activism to build a stronger, more connected community.

Greater Cleveland Congregations (GCC)

Greater Cleveland Congregations (GCC) is a non-partisan organization of faith communities and partner organizations in Cuyahoga County working together to build power for social justice.

Honesty for Ohio Education

Honesty for Ohio Education is a nonpartisan, Ohio-based, statewide coalition that champions honesty in education, the empowerment of students, families, and educators, and the affirmation of identities, cultures, and experiences.

Impact Appalachia

Kaleidoscope Youth Center (KYC)

KYC is the largest and longest serving organization in Ohio supporting LGBTQIA+ youth, ages 12-24. At Kaleidoscope, belonging means being. To stand in your strengths. To stand in your power. And to stand for a world where everyone can be their most confident, authentic self.

Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless

NEOCH exists to eliminate the root causes of homelessness while loving our diverse community through organizing, advocacy, education, and street outreach.

Northeast Ohio Worker Center

The mission of the Northeast Ohio Worker Center is to build power with working people.

NorthEast Ohio Voter Advocates

NOVA is a grassroots organization that believes in expanding voter participation so that all voices are heard in our democracy. Our 501(c)3, non-partisan status allows us access to social service agencies, schools, food pantries and correctional facilities to register voters, conduct voter research, and advocate for voting equity.

Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund (OCAEF)

OCAEF informs, organizes, and mobilizes people to advocate for public interests across issues and campaigns. We engage people in actions that protect public health, improve environmental quality and benefit consumers. Our campaigns connect Ohioans and build a movement to protect democracy and create a sustainable and equitable future.

Ohio Environmental Council

The mission of the Ohio Environmental Council is to secure healthy air, land, and water for all who call Ohio home. The OEC works for pragmatic solutions to keep Ohio clean and beautiful, and our communities safe. We fight for clean air and water, clean energy, and protected public lands. We hold polluters accountable in court while working with communities and companies that want to invest in a clean, more sustainable direction. For more than 50 years, we have led many of the major environmental policy wins in Ohio. The Ohio Environmental Council is the state’s most comprehensive, effective and respected environmental advocate for a healthier, more sustainable Ohio.

Ohio Families Unite Against Police Brutality

Our mission is to fight against police brutality and to support our extended families; who, while not related by blood, are bonded to us through the needless bloodshed of our loved ones.

Ohio Immigrant Alliance

Ohio Immigrant Alliance is a group of Ohio immigrants and U.S. born citizens working together to protect the dignity and rights of all individuals who choose to make Ohio their home — regardless of race, religion, gender expression, age, ability, and citizenship status.

Ohio Unity Coalition / Ohio Coalition for Black Civic Participation

The Ohio Coalition on Black Civic Participation, or Ohio Unity Coalition, is a state affiliate of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation in Washington DC. Ohio Unity Coalition increases civic participation of Black Ohioans statewide by partnering with labor, community, civic and faith organizations to train and recruit volunteers who will register, educate, and mobilize voters.

Ohio Women's Alliance

Ohio Women’s Alliance is a power-building Reproductive Justice organization providing programming, resources, and education for women, femmes, gender-expansive folks, and youth throughout Ohio. Rooted in the foundations of Reproductive Justice, our mission is to transform Ohio into a state where all people can truly thrive through access to safe communities, equitable education, holistic health care and wellness, inclusive and representative democracy, and economic prosperity.

OPAWL — Building AAPI Feminist Leadership

Originally founded in 2016, OPAWL is a grassroots member-led community that organizes for social justice and elevates the voices, visibility, and progressive leadership of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women and nonbinary people in Ohio.

Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio

Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio is committed to protecting access to reproductive health care and rights for all Ohioans through advocacy, education, lobbying, and electoral activity.

Policy Matters Ohio

Policy Matters Ohio, a non-profit policy research institute, creates a more vibrant, equitable, sustainable and inclusive Ohio through research, strategic communications, coalition building and policy advocacy.

Promise of Democracy / Ohio Voter Fund

OVF’s mission is to create sustainable voter engagement and mobilization programs in African American communities across Ohio by use of voter registration, education and issue awareness programs thru community based outreach to residents in low income communities.

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