Get Out The Vote Champion
Equipping People. Empowering Communities. Strengthening Social Justice.
ACE offers a proven framework to educate, organize, and mobilize people to increase voter turnout and civic participation.
Communities in Action
Civic Engagement · GOTV
Our Mission
Our mission is to walk alongside community-anchored, faith-based, and values-driven organizations, giving them the customized tools, hands-on training, and lasting infrastructure they need to register, educate, and mobilize voters. We do this through an evidence-based and data-driven, nonpartisan, and deeply collaborative approach that honors the wisdom already present in every community we serve.
Our Vision
We see a future in which every nonpartisan partner has the evidence-based and data-driven strategy they need to grow voter turnout year after year, strengthen the voice of their community, and safeguard the human rights that make a healthy democracy possible.
The ACE Difference
We offer full-scale, customized strategy built for your locality — not piece-meal.
We ensure evidence-based and data-driven, with measurable voter-turnout deliverables.
We expand volunteer engagement and leadership development.
We build sustainable, election-ready community networks that outlast any single cycle.
Years of Community Advocacy
Years in Ministry Leadership
Years in Public Office
Permanent Infrastructure
“We build permanent infrastructure. Your investment funds a self-sustaining civic network that keeps your community organized, active, and election-ready for years to come.”
About
Dr. Bennett is a civic engagement strategist, an ordained itinerant minister, a former Georgia State Representative, and the founder of ACE.
Dr. Karen Bennett is a respected civic engagement strategist, an ordained itinerant minister, a former Georgia State Representative, and the Founder of the Alliance for Civic Engagement. With more than 35 years of community advocacy, 25 years of leadership in ministry, and 13 years in public office, she equips communities and values-driven organizations with evidence-based, data-driven strategies to increase voter participation, strengthen civic leadership, and build sustainable systems for social justice engagement. Through signature programs like Politically Speaking and Project Mobilize, she inspires audiences to transform awareness into action.
“When communities understand their power, they don't just participate in social justice…they shape democracy.”
Our Work
Everything we do is built on a collaboration model. These five pillars are how we show up for the organizations, faith leaders, and neighbors doing the day-to-day work of strengthening our democracy — and each one is designed to leave your community stronger than we found it.
Know Before You Go.
We sit down with voters where they already are — in sanctuaries, community rooms, kitchen tables, and text threads — and walk them through what's actually on their ballot. When people understand the choices in front of them, they show up with confidence instead of confusion, and they bring their neighbors along.
Strategize, Organize, Mobilize.
Turnout doesn't happen by accident. We partner with your team to build a real plan — one grounded in your community's data, driven by your volunteers, and designed to reach the neighbors most likely to be missed. Together we turn awareness into knocked doors, answered calls, and ballots cast.
Energize, Empower, and Engage.
Every community already has leaders waiting to be equipped. We invest in those people — teaching them how to organize, how to advocate, and how to carry the work forward — so that long after we've left, your neighborhood has homegrown voices ready to lead the next campaign, the next conversation, and the next generation.
Understanding Tax Status.
Nonprofit leaders shouldn't have to choose between civic engagement and protecting the organization they've built. We break down what nonpartisan work actually looks like under your tax status, and we help you build the internal practices that keep your mission — and your 501(c) protections — safe while you show up for your community.
Many Hands, Light Work.
No single church, nonprofit, or coalition can do this alone. We connect values-aligned partners — faith leaders, community organizations, and funders — into networks that share resources, share credit, and share the load. When we move together, our reach multiplies and our communities feel it.
Every partnership begins with a conversation about what your community actually needs. From there, we shape one of our signature programs around your capacity, your calendar, and the neighbors you're trying to reach. Additional non-partisan services are available to clients to help improve voter turnout, including voter registration support and other services.
Project Mobilize
Project Mobilize is our flagship training experience — a flexible, evidence-based and data-driven curriculum built around your timeline, your capacity, and the community you serve. Choose the format that fits, and we'll bring the strategy, tools, and compliance guidance your team needs to grow turnout with confidence.
Virtual Workshops
One to two focused hours online, designed for busy teams who need to move quickly. We come prepared with your community's data and leave you with a plan you can act on the same week.
Half-Day In-Person Workshops
A deeper, hands-on gathering held in your space. We work shoulder to shoulder with your leaders on the tactics, tools, and volunteer pipelines that will carry your turnout goals across the finish line.
Project Mobilize Training Series
Our signature multi-session experience. Over several weeks we build a full, election-ready plan with your team — one they own, one that fits your community, and one that keeps working long after the series ends.
Keynote
Politically Speaking is how Dr. Bennett brings the ACE message to your audience — in person, on the air, and online. Each appearance is built to move people from listening to acting, and to leave your community ready for what comes next.
Keynotes & Plenaries
Dr. Bennett takes the stage at your conference, convening, or community event and moves the room from listening to acting.
Digital & Social Amplification
We help your message find the people who need to hear it, across the digital and social platforms your community actually lives on.
Radio & Television
Dr. Bennett represents your cause on broadcast with clarity, warmth, and the moral conviction the moment requires.
Podcasts & YouTube
Long-form conversations that bring your work to life, spark real dialogue, and turn listeners into engaged neighbors.
Who We Serve
Dr. Bennett and the ACE team meet each partner where they are — bringing the strategy, training, and compliance guidance your community needs to turn conviction into turnout.
We partner with faith-based organizations and churches ready to mobilize their congregations.
We work with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations extending civic power into the communities they serve.
We support community organizations building lasting engagement block by block and neighbor by neighbor.
We strengthen coalitions and advocacy networks that turn shared vision into coordinated action.
We collaborate with corporate sponsors whose values align with our commitment to civic engagement.
We equip values-based organizations ready to translate their beliefs into meaningful civic impact.
Voting. Our civil rights. Our civic duty. Our moral responsibility.
“Whatever you did for the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”
Contact
Tell us about your organization and your turnout goals. We'll respond within 2 business days.