Michigan Voices

Mission: To work in service of our table partners and their members who are on the frontlines of protecting and transforming our democracy.

Michigan Voices (MV), an affiliate of State Voices, was established in 2005 as the statewide civic engagement collaborative table to educate, engage, activate, and protect underrepresented and disenfranchised communities and to ensure their full and equitable access to the democratic process.

We center our partners’ expertise and work collaboratively to support pro-equity, pro-democracy campaigns, and organizing. We exist to provide the scaffolding and infrastructure needed for communities across Michigan to collectivize and scale up the impact of their civic engagement, voter participation, and issue-advocacy efforts.

Specifically, we build strategic power by serving as the collaborative space for progressive 501(c)(3) organizations to meet their civic engagement, civic access, and civic representation goals through coordination and by providing capacity support, leadership development, data expertise, and tools.

We seek to ensure full and equitable access to the democratic process by helping to build capacity in progressive nonprofit groups that are led by and engage Black, Brown and Indigenous people. We provide resources to help these organizations become self-sustaining in their mission to bring social justice to their communities. We champion a democracy where all Michiganders can and do exercise their power to impact the decisions that shape our local, state, and federal government.

To achieve our ambitious goal, the Michigan Voices table coordinates a coalition of social justice organizations that work year-round to inspire collective action and empower individuals to shape a future defined by fairness, equality, and shared prosperity. The Michigan Voices team supports, trains and works with our partners to build capacity, membership, and power.