Colorado Progressive Coalition ("CPC") was formed in 1996 by community activists and leaders who were fed up with the increasing power of right-wing conservative forces in Colorado. CPC builds coalitions, conducts research, organizes communities, gets out the vote, develops new leaders, registers thousands of new voters each year, and lobbies elected officials at the local, state, and national levels to build a progressive future for Colorado on issues of racial, economic, environmental, and social justice.

Organized around four primary program areas: Racial Justice & Civil Rights; Health Care for All; Tax Fairness; and Voter Power, CPC's membership has grown rapidly to include 40 civil rights, faith-based, labor, and community member organizations representing 250,000 Coloradans and 5,000 individual members and thousands of volunteers and supporters in 80 towns and cities across the state. We've received local and national recognition for our creative, dynamic, and effective organizing, including winning the Chinook Fund's 1998 and 2000 "Winds of Change" Awards for outstanding organizing for progressive social change. CPC is a recommended "Great Social Change Group" in the book Robin Hood Was Right: A Guide to Giving Your Money for Social Change and was selected by USAction to be its 2001 National Affiliate of the year.

In 2004, CPC's voter registration and mobilization program - registering 27,061 new voters and conducting an intensive, door to door voter education drive to 145,000 low- and middle-income and people of color Coloradans - was rated by TrueMajority.org, one of the top five community voter programs in the United States. Read CPC's accomplishment page >>

CPC is a non-profit, grassroots organization with a staff of 14 and offices in Denver (statewide) and Pueblo (Southern Colorado). We receive funding from membership dues from people like you, foundation grants, and events and - to maintain our independence - we do not accept direct corporate or government grants. Colorado Progressive Action, CPC's lobbying arm, the state affiliate for USAction (www.usaction.org) was incorporated in 2002 and is increasingly active on civil justice, Social Security, judicial nomination, and federal tax and budget policy issues.

If you like what you've read and support our mission, we invite you to become a CPC supporter today. Click on "Become a Member" to print out a membership application or to make a secure, credit card contribution today. Thank you.