What We Do

Future Coalition invests in youth-centered grassroots partners dedicated to driving transformative change in their communities.

Over the past five years, we have provided resources to thousands of individuals and groups working to turn out young BIPOC voters, build grassroots support for local candidates, and shift political power to young people.

How We Support Local Organizers

Future Coalition Grant

The Future Coalition Grant encourages collaboration and relationship-building between youth-centered organizations.

Understanding that partnerships are sometimes abandoned in favor of spending limited resources on core mission execution, this micro-grant can only be used to enhance connections and support local grassroots efforts to facilitate connections such as community events.

Future Coalition Creator Network

The Future Coalition Creator Network brings together hundreds of content creators who are committed to using their social media accounts to amplify civic engagement-related content on an ongoing basis.

Creators are powerful peer motivators. As creators onboard in 2025 and beyond, they will be active and engaged year-round, not solely during specific elections and electoral cycles.

Previous Work

2024

$390K invested in youth-centered groups, including $320K through the Take It Back Grant

20 groups from Arizona, Georgia, Florida, and Alaska engaged through the Take It Back Network

22 volunteers recruited for an out-of-state volunteer opportunity in Montana

20 content creators recruited to the Future Coalition Creator Network to support electoral organizing objectives

2022

11.6 million voters engaged via communications across 13 states

25 youth-led organizations engaged

2.9 million peer-to-peer text messages sent

88,000+ doors knocked in competitive rural and urban districts

1,500+ young organizers paid to canvas

Previous Work

2024

$390K invested in youth-centered groups, including $320K through the Take It Back Grant

20 groups from Arizona, Georgia, Florida, and Alaska engaged through the Take It Back Network

22 volunteers recruited for an out-of-state volunteer opportunity in Montana

20 content creators recruited to the Future Coalition Creator Network to support electoral organizing objectives

2022

11.6 million voters engaged via communications across 13 states

25 youth-led organizations engaged

2.9 million peer-to-peer text messages sent

88,000+ doors knocked in competitive rural and urban districts

1,500+ young organizers paid to canvas

Organize for Democracy is a multi-issue partnership collective organizing to fill essential gaps for young (under 50), pro-democracy candidates running in swing district, down-ballot races in 2022. O4D will spearhead efforts to raise money, mobilize volunteers, and expose down-ballot candidates to new donors and donor networks.

Press Release

— Blue Future
— Knock for Democracy
— Mi Familia Vota Education Fund
— NAACP Youth & College
— OCA–Asian Pacific American Advocates
— The Next 50
— 18 By Vote

On the heels of our success convening and supporting a youth-led coalition that mobilized around the Georgia runoffs, we were excited to shift our momentum to New York City. In Our Hands is a youth-led group of NYC-based youth activists and community organizations. The coalition brings together a diverse array of issue-based organizations to unify around the needs of NYC’s youth in local elections.

The In Our Hands Coalition was able to engage over 7,000 attendees through over 70 voter engagement, education, and registration events. We worked to spread awareness about the primary election and new Ranked Choice Voting format through innovative engagement with our peers. Additionally, we built a comprehensive youth platform with concrete steps local officials can take to improve the lives of young people in New York; 55 candidates endorsed the platform, including a majority of City Council primary winners.

Future Coalition coordinated Peaches for Progress, a youth-led, intergenerational coalition working to mobilize young people throughout Georgia for the runoff elections. The coalition’s efforts to use experimental organizing tactics to mobilize youth audiences was featured on NBC News, Bloomberg, and The Hill.

Working so closely with new and established young organizers in Georgia allowed Peaches for Progress to send over 1.8 million text messages, register 2,800 new voters, and plan community engagement events throughout the runoff cycle that centered around engaging local organizers.