"Educating & Empowering Black Communities To Be Involved In Local Governance To Their Full Potential!"

What We Do

Why we exist? To educate, engage, and empower our community.

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Community Events

Is a bus with an eye-catching, “hip hop’’ design that’s been re-designed to draw more potential voters — particularly young adults — into the elections process. The bus travel throughout the county set out to register as many voters as possible, at parks, festivals, special events, parades, and a lot more.

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Community Outreach

Door-to-door to educate on issue, voter engagement, and civics education to empower the community with the knowledge and tools they need to participate in the democratic process

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Tech Communication

Live phone banking involves live calls and manual text messages to engage voters, gather data, and build support for political and issue based campaigns.

Community Engagement

Panel discussion with the community with guest speakers to provide a platform for community engagement, dialogue, and civic participation.

Our Mission

The Ohio Alliance for Community Education is a service-based organization that prides itself on building strong community connections among black and brown residents in the Greater Cleveland area. By engaging, educating and empowering them in their civic lives, we aim to create equal opportunities to thrive and prosper in their surrounding neighborhoods by connecting the issues that have and will affect on there everyday lives.

Our Vision

The Alliance for Community Education envisions a Greater Cleveland where all people have the opportunity, knowledge, and power to improve their lives and strengthen their communities. ​
 
Our pillars are the engagement of the community; education on issues; empowerment to create change. We will enable individuals and neighborhoods to rise up and address current issues to establish power for future generations.

"Building Strong Communities Through Active Engagement!"

Some Funders and Staffs

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Campaign Highlights

30
Hired

333
Hours

Signatures collected for the Minimum Wage ballot measure during GOTV

2023

4497
Signatures

Total Signatures Collected

2022

Nearly 200K
People

Total Attempted Doors

84,079
People

Attempted on doors in Cuyahoga county

11,420
People

Canvassed on doors; 14% contact rate

84K
Attempts

Door program launched 10/1, scaled in 6 weeks
Under-tested Directed Research for voter registration

1078
Voter Registration Forms

30
Days

129.5
Hours

6 workers collected at 69.57 per form. Surpassed our goal by 578

Phones

198,636
People

Total number of people attempted on phones

43,615
People

Canvassed on phones; 22% contact rate
Some calls were vended to Stones Phones
Covid 19 phone survey conversations
2021

60
Hired

40
Shifts

148,333/320,000

We exceeded our conversation goal by 5190/4000
2020

1M+
People

Total number of people in attempted doors

44,447
Households

Lit drop during final four in Cuyahoga county
Phones

374,244
People

Total number of people attempted on phones

14,988
People

Contacted on phones; 4% contact rate
SMS

615,687
People

Total number of people attempted via SMS

5,963
People

Canvassed on SMS; 1% contact rate

248,078
People

Attempted on doors in Cuyahoga and surrounding counties

26,875
People

Canvassed on doors; 15% contact rate
2018
2016

200K+
People

Canvassed in Cuyahoga primarily, with traveling teams to Lake and Lorain Doors

235,926
People

Total number of people attempted on doors

61,137
Conversations

Total number of conversations on doors in Cuyahoga; 25% contact rate

Support Ohio ACE: Empowering Communities Through Education

The Ohio Alliance for Community Education (Ohio ACE) is dedicated to promoting and supporting community education initiatives across the state. Your donation helps fund programs that enhance educational opportunities, foster community engagement, and support lifelong learning for individuals of all ages. By contributing to Ohio ACE, you are investing in a brighter future for our communities through education and empowerment. Join us in making a difference today!

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Board of Directors

"Together We Can Make A Difference: Empowering Communities for Positive Change!"

The Hip-Hop Voter Registration Bus

What Our Partners Are Saying

Ohio Women’s Alliance

Ohio Women’s Alliance Action Fund has helped create lasting organizational infrastructure support by a network of dynamic women of color leaders. Davida Russell is one of those leaders, launching one of the largest voter outreach programs in the state of Ohio that focuses on empowering and supporting Black and POC residents to make their voices heard through voting. Davida’s program helped us make over 2 million contact attempts in 2020 and we can’t wait to see what we continue to build together through our partnership.

Erin Scott

Executive Director

America Votes

America Votes has worked with the leadership team at Ohio ACE in a myriad of capacities since 2016, and they’re great. They always come through and are able to setup a larger-scale operation no matter the timeline. They’re effective, targeted, responsibility, dedicated, and blow every target we’ve given them out of the water.

Khaled M. Salehi

Ohio State Director

For Our Future Ohio

Ohio Alliance for Community Education is transforming the civic life of Greater Clevelanders by being authentically immersed and committed to the community. They are listening to citizens, amplifying their voices, and working on a host of issues to not only educate the community, but public officials in coming up with community-led solutions. They are building power by registering citizens and empowering voter participation to bring about social, economic, and educational equality.

Toni Webb

Ohio State Director

We would love to hear from you.

Please fill out the form to get in touch with Ohio ACE about our organization and tools. If you’re interested in questions about voting, getting involved or donations please submit your request here.