2026 is a Battle for Democracy and We Need Your Help

Democracy is a Team Sport, and Every Team Needs Captains

The 2026 elections are critical to the future of our democracy. We have a fight on our hands and a proven plan to make our voices heard. We need your help.

GCC has been engaged in deep canvassing for six years, turning conversations into change and growing our collective power one house, one door, one neighbor at a time.

Deep canvassing works. It scales. And it delivers measurable and meaningful results.

In 2024, neighborhoods we canvassed had a 16% higher voter turnout compared to the surrounding communities. Ahead of the May 5, 2026 primaries, 57 of our members have already knocked on 335 doors and had 87 conversations with people in the Central and Slavic Village neighborhoods.

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We’re just getting started, and we’d like you to join us and be a Neighborhood Captain.

As a Neighborhood Captain, you and your team will knock on more doors in more communities and talk with even more neighbors. Ahead of the primaries on May 5, you’ll hand out voter guides. You’ll listen. On Election Day, you’ll help people to and from the polls.

You can build power and create change one conversation at a time. And we are stronger when we all work together.

If you’d like to be part of a joyful, effective non-partisan voter experience, join us! Our neighbors need your support on Election Day, Tuesday, May 5th and beyond!

Click the link below to sign up.

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focus areas

VOTer
engagement

Fighting voter suppression, depression and regression by mobilizing people to vote in low-propensity voting neighborhoods.

Criminal
Justice

Working with prosecutors, judges and our community to create a new system of criminal justice by adding pretrial services and putting an end to cash bail and discretionary youth bindover.

health
equity

Connecting communities of color with primary and preventative care with the goal of creating health equity in Cleveland.

GUN
SAFETY

Reducing gun violence through responsible gun ownership.

ECONOMIC
DEMOCRACY

Our PowerUp congregations are using their collective spending power to negotiate better prices for waste hauling, electricity and natural gas.

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