Civic Nation is proud to have led a number of time-limited campaigns on issues including gender equity, higher education, voter participation and vaccine access. The work of many of these campaigns lives on at Civic Nation and other organizations.
Started as a White House Summit in 2016, the United State of Women (USOW) transformed into an initiative working to connect everyone in the fight for full gender equity.
USOW convened organizations and mobilized everyday feminists around key issues, including the fight for equal pay, paid family leave, student debt relief, the child tax credit, democracy, racial justice, education reform, LGBTQ+ rights, and reproductive justice.
From April 2021 to May 2022, Made to Save was a national grassroots effort to ensure that the communities of color hit hardest by the pandemic had access to the COVID-19 vaccines.
Over the course of 18 months, Made to Save brought together a coalition of 1,600+ organizations that made immense strides in ensuring an equitable pandemic response and addressing long-standing public health disparities.
From June 2023 to May 2024, Online For All was a national campaign that worked to close the digital divide by focusing on internet access, affordability, and equity. Online For All educated over 40,000 people about the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) by providing non-profit, government, corporate, and media partners with the tools and materials needed to drive awareness. The campaign also provided training, funding, and support to community-based organizations with deep local ties and outreach experience to drive enrollment.
End Rape On Campus (EROC) works to end campus sexual violence through support, education, and policy reform, centering historically excluded and systemically marginalized student survivors. EROC provides student survivors and advocates with tools and practices to navigate campus policy processes and hold their institutions accountable.
#VoteTogether was an effort that designed, tested, and evaluated an innovative model to change the culture around voting and increase voter turnout through celebrations hosted at or near polling places.
In partnership with Professor Donald P. Green at Columbia University, Civic Nation conducted research that found that voting celebrations can increase voter participation by up to 4 percentage points. View our full suite of research reports here.
Since 2016, organizations across the country have utilized this model to increase voter turnout. This research forms the foundation for When We All Vote’s national Party At the Polls program, which powers thousands of community-driven voting celebrations every election cycle.
Reach Higher is Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s effort to inspire every student in the U.S. to take charge of their future by completing their education past high school, whether at a professional training program, community college, or a four-year college or university.
Originally launched out of the Obama-Biden White House and housed at Civic Nation, Reach Higher is now part of the Common App.
College Promise builds broad public support for funding the first two or more years of postsecondary education for hard-working students and ensuring those students have access to quality educational opportunities and support.
Originally launched by Civic Nation in 2015, College Promise is now a project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.