About Us

A new model of cooperation and sharing is growing in the states amongst grassroots groups. Organizations working in historically underrepresented and socially responsible communities are breaking out of their narrowly defined and out-dated issue silos to come together and share ideas, share resources and cooperate to win policy and civic engagement victories for change.
 
State Voices helps bring together those diverse and talented groups working in key states and provides the infrastructure necessary to build the trust, communication and sharing that creates real collaboration and success, including:

• Cutting-Edge Organizing Technology and Experimentation: State Voices networked groups share tools, best practices and test new strategies. Collaboration allows organizations to save serious money and provides smaller groups access to advanced tools and knowledge that they'd never have on their own.

• Rigorous Planning and Evaluation: The real collaboration that happens in the State Voices networks requires honesty amongst groups. That honesty means organizations come together to agree on a plan and hold each other accountable to achieving the goals necessary to win.

• Issue and Strategic Expertise: Local groups networked to State Voices have access to the top policy and organizing experts in the country. State Voices helps identify opportunities to collaborate on cross-cutting key issues, including the census and redistricting.

• Access to National Support and Perspective: Too often, state and local nonprofit organizations are left out of the big national campaigns despite their deep local knowledge. Now, because of the State Voices network, local groups can be a force for change on national policy efforts.

State Voices has grown to work with approximately 600 organizations representing a broad spectrum of issues and communities in 16 states-states where organizations decided to come together and that are critical for setting the national agenda.
 
The State Voices model is working. Since launching in 2005, our state networks have been an important part of the unprecedented policy and civic engagement victories of the past four years.  Now, it's more important than ever to build on those successes.