Community Action Works

environmental community-organizing nonprofit

Community Action Works

Industry Environment

A nonprofit that trains and supports local groups confronting pollution, waste facilities, pipelines, and other environmental threats. It scores higher than the network's canvassing arms because its work transfers practical organizing capacity to affected communities, though Public Interest Network affiliation and professional-staff control keep it below the strongest community-governed models.

Why this matters: Community Action Works is the strongest entry in this cluster because the service is more directly community-supportive than donor or recruitment infrastructure.

Letter grade D Extractive High confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1 Parent / owner: The Public Interest Network

Community Action Works says it is part of The Public Interest Network.

Final Score 34* D - Extractive
DEXTRACTIVE34 tentative score pts

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material40
Bonus+6
Cap41Ownership <= 4 and Governance <= 4
After Cap41
Penalties-7
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Owned by The Public Interest Network

The parent profile is currently rated D (Extractive, 28*). This subsidiary is not mechanically capped at the parent score, but parent control is part of the ownership, governance, policy, accountability opacity, reversibility, and harm analysis.

Evaluation Overview

D - Extractive

The score turns mainly on Solidarity with the Unemployed, with the largest penalty coming from Policy Capture.

Strengths

  • Solidarity with the Unemployed6/7
  • Extraction5/10
  • Loss-Bearing Fidelity5/7

Penalties

  • Policy Capture-2
  • Accountability Opacity-2
  • Youth Capture-1
  • Identity Capture-1

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims18
  • Direct axis claims18
  • Coverage18/18

Scoring Axes
Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
4 / 10

Community Action Works's public record identifies it as a nonprofit, advocacy network, recruiting organization, student group, research center, or electoral advocacy organization rather than a worker-owned or user-owned cooperative.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • Community Action Works's public record identifies it as a nonprofit, advocacy network, recruiting organization, student group, research center, or electoral advocacy organization rather than a worker-owned or user-owned cooperative. [1]
  • context Community Action Works's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. [2]
  • context Community Action Works's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. [3]
  • context Community Action Works's worker-power record is evaluated against public descriptions of staff roles, recruiting pipelines, canvassing work, union activity, or NLRB/labor records where available. [4]
  • context Community Action Works's mission or services address public goods such as consumer protection, environmental health, democracy, education affordability, or pollution cleanup rather than ordinary private consumption. [5]
  • context Community Action Works's advocacy, research, organizing, or community-support work can shift some problem-solving costs away from isolated individuals and toward organized public action. [6]
  • context Community Action Works's conduct is evaluated as advocacy-market conduct: recruitment, canvassing, donor acquisition, student-fee funding, policy pressure, research publication, and public campaign framing. [7]
  • context Community Action Works's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. [8]
  • context Community Action Works's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. [9]
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
4 / 10

Community Action Works's linked public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • context Community Action Works's public record identifies it as a nonprofit, advocacy network, recruiting organization, student group, research center, or electoral advocacy organization rather than a worker-owned or user-owned cooperative. [1]
  • Community Action Works's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. [2]
  • context Community Action Works's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. [3]
  • context Community Action Works's worker-power record is evaluated against public descriptions of staff roles, recruiting pipelines, canvassing work, union activity, or NLRB/labor records where available. [4]
  • context Community Action Works's mission or services address public goods such as consumer protection, environmental health, democracy, education affordability, or pollution cleanup rather than ordinary private consumption. [5]
  • context Community Action Works's advocacy, research, organizing, or community-support work can shift some problem-solving costs away from isolated individuals and toward organized public action. [6]
  • context Community Action Works's conduct is evaluated as advocacy-market conduct: recruitment, canvassing, donor acquisition, student-fee funding, policy pressure, research publication, and public campaign framing. [7]
  • context Community Action Works's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. [8]
  • context Community Action Works's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. [9]
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
5 / 10

Community Action Works's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • context Community Action Works's public record identifies it as a nonprofit, advocacy network, recruiting organization, student group, research center, or electoral advocacy organization rather than a worker-owned or user-owned cooperative. [1]
  • context Community Action Works's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. [2]
  • Community Action Works's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. [3]
  • context Community Action Works's worker-power record is evaluated against public descriptions of staff roles, recruiting pipelines, canvassing work, union activity, or NLRB/labor records where available. [4]
  • context Community Action Works's mission or services address public goods such as consumer protection, environmental health, democracy, education affordability, or pollution cleanup rather than ordinary private consumption. [5]
  • context Community Action Works's advocacy, research, organizing, or community-support work can shift some problem-solving costs away from isolated individuals and toward organized public action. [6]
  • context Community Action Works's conduct is evaluated as advocacy-market conduct: recruitment, canvassing, donor acquisition, student-fee funding, policy pressure, research publication, and public campaign framing. [7]
  • context Community Action Works's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. [8]
  • context Community Action Works's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. [9]
Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
3 / 7

Community Action Works's worker-power record is evaluated against public descriptions of staff roles, recruiting pipelines, canvassing work, union activity, or NLRB/labor records where available.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • context Community Action Works's public record identifies it as a nonprofit, advocacy network, recruiting organization, student group, research center, or electoral advocacy organization rather than a worker-owned or user-owned cooperative. [1]
  • context Community Action Works's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. [2]
  • context Community Action Works's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. [3]
  • Community Action Works's worker-power record is evaluated against public descriptions of staff roles, recruiting pipelines, canvassing work, union activity, or NLRB/labor records where available. [4]
  • context Community Action Works's mission or services address public goods such as consumer protection, environmental health, democracy, education affordability, or pollution cleanup rather than ordinary private consumption. [5]
  • context Community Action Works's advocacy, research, organizing, or community-support work can shift some problem-solving costs away from isolated individuals and toward organized public action. [6]
  • context Community Action Works's conduct is evaluated as advocacy-market conduct: recruitment, canvassing, donor acquisition, student-fee funding, policy pressure, research publication, and public campaign framing. [7]
  • context Community Action Works's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. [8]
  • context Community Action Works's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. [9]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
6 / 7

Community Action Works's mission or services address public goods such as consumer protection, environmental health, democracy, education affordability, or pollution cleanup rather than ordinary private consumption.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • context Community Action Works's public record identifies it as a nonprofit, advocacy network, recruiting organization, student group, research center, or electoral advocacy organization rather than a worker-owned or user-owned cooperative. [1]
  • context Community Action Works's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. [2]
  • context Community Action Works's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. [3]
  • context Community Action Works's worker-power record is evaluated against public descriptions of staff roles, recruiting pipelines, canvassing work, union activity, or NLRB/labor records where available. [4]
  • Community Action Works's mission or services address public goods such as consumer protection, environmental health, democracy, education affordability, or pollution cleanup rather than ordinary private consumption. [5]
  • context Community Action Works's advocacy, research, organizing, or community-support work can shift some problem-solving costs away from isolated individuals and toward organized public action. [6]
  • context Community Action Works's conduct is evaluated as advocacy-market conduct: recruitment, canvassing, donor acquisition, student-fee funding, policy pressure, research publication, and public campaign framing. [7]
  • context Community Action Works's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. [8]
  • context Community Action Works's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. [9]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
5 / 7

Community Action Works's advocacy, research, organizing, or community-support work can shift some problem-solving costs away from isolated individuals and toward organized public action.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • context Community Action Works's public record identifies it as a nonprofit, advocacy network, recruiting organization, student group, research center, or electoral advocacy organization rather than a worker-owned or user-owned cooperative. [1]
  • context Community Action Works's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. [2]
  • context Community Action Works's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. [3]
  • context Community Action Works's worker-power record is evaluated against public descriptions of staff roles, recruiting pipelines, canvassing work, union activity, or NLRB/labor records where available. [4]
  • context Community Action Works's mission or services address public goods such as consumer protection, environmental health, democracy, education affordability, or pollution cleanup rather than ordinary private consumption. [5]
  • Community Action Works's advocacy, research, organizing, or community-support work can shift some problem-solving costs away from isolated individuals and toward organized public action. [6]
  • context Community Action Works's conduct is evaluated as advocacy-market conduct: recruitment, canvassing, donor acquisition, student-fee funding, policy pressure, research publication, and public campaign framing. [7]
  • context Community Action Works's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. [8]
  • context Community Action Works's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. [9]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
4 / 5

Community Action Works's conduct is evaluated as advocacy-market conduct: recruitment, canvassing, donor acquisition, student-fee funding, policy pressure, research publication, and public campaign framing.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • context Community Action Works's public record identifies it as a nonprofit, advocacy network, recruiting organization, student group, research center, or electoral advocacy organization rather than a worker-owned or user-owned cooperative. [1]
  • context Community Action Works's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. [2]
  • context Community Action Works's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. [3]
  • context Community Action Works's worker-power record is evaluated against public descriptions of staff roles, recruiting pipelines, canvassing work, union activity, or NLRB/labor records where available. [4]
  • context Community Action Works's mission or services address public goods such as consumer protection, environmental health, democracy, education affordability, or pollution cleanup rather than ordinary private consumption. [5]
  • context Community Action Works's advocacy, research, organizing, or community-support work can shift some problem-solving costs away from isolated individuals and toward organized public action. [6]
  • Community Action Works's conduct is evaluated as advocacy-market conduct: recruitment, canvassing, donor acquisition, student-fee funding, policy pressure, research publication, and public campaign framing. [7]
  • context Community Action Works's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. [8]
  • context Community Action Works's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. [9]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
5 / 5

Community Action Works's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • context Community Action Works's public record identifies it as a nonprofit, advocacy network, recruiting organization, student group, research center, or electoral advocacy organization rather than a worker-owned or user-owned cooperative. [1]
  • context Community Action Works's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. [2]
  • context Community Action Works's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. [3]
  • context Community Action Works's worker-power record is evaluated against public descriptions of staff roles, recruiting pipelines, canvassing work, union activity, or NLRB/labor records where available. [4]
  • context Community Action Works's mission or services address public goods such as consumer protection, environmental health, democracy, education affordability, or pollution cleanup rather than ordinary private consumption. [5]
  • context Community Action Works's advocacy, research, organizing, or community-support work can shift some problem-solving costs away from isolated individuals and toward organized public action. [6]
  • context Community Action Works's conduct is evaluated as advocacy-market conduct: recruitment, canvassing, donor acquisition, student-fee funding, policy pressure, research publication, and public campaign framing. [7]
  • Community Action Works's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. [8]
  • context Community Action Works's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. [9]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
4 / 5

Community Action Works's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • context Community Action Works's public record identifies it as a nonprofit, advocacy network, recruiting organization, student group, research center, or electoral advocacy organization rather than a worker-owned or user-owned cooperative. [1]
  • context Community Action Works's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities. [2]
  • context Community Action Works's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity. [3]
  • context Community Action Works's worker-power record is evaluated against public descriptions of staff roles, recruiting pipelines, canvassing work, union activity, or NLRB/labor records where available. [4]
  • context Community Action Works's mission or services address public goods such as consumer protection, environmental health, democracy, education affordability, or pollution cleanup rather than ordinary private consumption. [5]
  • context Community Action Works's advocacy, research, organizing, or community-support work can shift some problem-solving costs away from isolated individuals and toward organized public action. [6]
  • context Community Action Works's conduct is evaluated as advocacy-market conduct: recruitment, canvassing, donor acquisition, student-fee funding, policy pressure, research publication, and public campaign framing. [7]
  • context Community Action Works's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product. [8]
  • Community Action Works's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both. [9]

Penalties
Penalty Applied Why this penalty
Policy Capture
?
Private-interest attempts to bend law, regulation, subsidies, taxes, enforcement, trade, labor, safety, competition, environmental, healthcare, housing, surveillance, civil-liberties, or consumer policy against workers, customers, citizens, affected communities, or ecological life. Public-interest advocacy is not penalized merely because it is lobbying. Range: -15 to 0.
-2

Community Action Works's own materials describe policy advocacy, lobbying, candidate support, public-pressure campaigns, or citizen mobilization aimed at changing public rules.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • Community Action Works's own materials describe policy advocacy, lobbying, candidate support, public-pressure campaigns, or citizen mobilization aimed at changing public rules. [14]
Youth Capture
?
Manipulative youth-directed marketing, youth-data or attention monetization, collectible/add-on traps, parasocial or identity capture, surprise mechanics, or treating young people as lower-disclosure consumers. Making useful toys or welcoming children is not itself penalized. Range: -5 to 0.
-1

Community Action Works's model recruits, trains, bills, or mobilizes students and young organizers, making youth-culture and early-career capture a direct axis-specific concern.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • Community Action Works's model recruits, trains, bills, or mobilizes students and young organizers, making youth-culture and early-career capture a direct axis-specific concern. [15]
Accountability Opacity
?
Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.
-2

Community Action Works's public materials do not give a complete plain-language map of governance control, related entities, fund flows, staff power, and constituent consent.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • Community Action Works's public materials do not give a complete plain-language map of governance control, related entities, fund flows, staff power, and constituent consent. [16]
Identity Capture
?
Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation. Range: -3 to 0.
-1

Community Action Works's mission framing can bind staff, students, donors, and volunteers to a moralized activist identity as well as to specific practical public goals.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • Community Action Works's mission framing can bind staff, students, donors, and volunteers to a moralized activist identity as well as to specific practical public goals. [17]
Ideological Disavowal
?
Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.
-1

Community Action Works's public language often presents a contested political program as public interest, fairness, science, democracy, or nonpartisan necessity rather than as an explicit ideological standpoint.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • Community Action Works's public language often presents a contested political program as public interest, fairness, science, democracy, or nonpartisan necessity rather than as an explicit ideological standpoint. [18]

Bonus Credits
Bonus Credit Why this credit
Openness to Dissent
?
Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.
1 / 3

Community Action Works's advocacy challenges corporate, governmental, or institutional power in public policy disputes, which can create some civic space for dissent.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • Community Action Works's advocacy challenges corporate, governmental, or institutional power in public policy disputes, which can create some civic space for dissent. [10]
Constitutional Spirit
?
Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms even where private law does not strictly require it.
2 / 3

Community Action Works's work uses research, litigation, public education, policy advocacy, or electoral engagement to contest stronger institutions through civic channels.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • Community Action Works's work uses research, litigation, public education, policy advocacy, or electoral engagement to contest stronger institutions through civic channels. [11]
Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
2 / 3

Community Action Works's public-facing work can give people research, organizing help, consumer protection, environmental benefit, or civic capacity without ordinary purchase lock-in.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • Community Action Works's public-facing work can give people research, organizing help, consumer protection, environmental benefit, or civic capacity without ordinary purchase lock-in. [12]
Cost Transparency
?
Credit for clear posted prices, all-in fees, unit costs, public rate cards, margin/cost visibility, or surplus-allocation transparency, especially in markets where opaque quotes, hidden fees, or individualized pricing are normal.
1 / 3

Community Action Works's nonprofit status, public web materials, annual-report materials, or fee disclosures give some but incomplete transparency into the cost of its work.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Public Interest Network and adjacent liberal activist infrastructure calibrated across network parent, canvassing arm, policy advocacy, research, student, recruiting, community-support, and electoral organizations.

Linked evidence
  • Community Action Works's nonprofit status, public web materials, annual-report materials, or fee disclosures give some but incomplete transparency into the cost of its work. [13]

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

High 81/100

18 verified linked claims 18 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 18/18 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 16/20

18 verified linked claims

Source quality 12/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 14/18

18 direct claims across 18 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 10/10

18/18 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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Claims and Sources

Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1Community Action Works's public record identifies it as a nonprofit, advocacy network, recruiting organization, student group, research center, or electoral advocacy organization rather than a worker-owned or user-owned cooperative.

Ownership Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

2Community Action Works's public materials do not show binding democratic control by ordinary workers, donors, canvassers, students, constituents, or affected communities.

Governance Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

3Community Action Works's operating model converts donations, dues, student fees, volunteer labor, campaign work, public attention, or research into advocacy capacity.

Extraction Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

4Community Action Works's worker-power record is evaluated against public descriptions of staff roles, recruiting pipelines, canvassing work, union activity, or NLRB/labor records where available.

Labor Sovereignty Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

5Community Action Works's mission or services address public goods such as consumer protection, environmental health, democracy, education affordability, or pollution cleanup rather than ordinary private consumption.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

6Community Action Works's advocacy, research, organizing, or community-support work can shift some problem-solving costs away from isolated individuals and toward organized public action.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

7Community Action Works's conduct is evaluated as advocacy-market conduct: recruitment, canvassing, donor acquisition, student-fee funding, policy pressure, research publication, and public campaign framing.

Market Conduct Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

8Community Action Works's core output is advocacy, research, organizing, recruiting, electoral support, or community training rather than a physical consumer product.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

9Community Action Works's scale and network position determine whether its campaigns create broad public benefit, concentrated institutional control, or both.

Scale Integrity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

10Community Action Works's advocacy challenges corporate, governmental, or institutional power in public policy disputes, which can create some civic space for dissent.

Openness To Dissent Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

11Community Action Works's work uses research, litigation, public education, policy advocacy, or electoral engagement to contest stronger institutions through civic channels.

Constitutional Spirit Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

12Community Action Works's public-facing work can give people research, organizing help, consumer protection, environmental benefit, or civic capacity without ordinary purchase lock-in.

Good Deal Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

13Community Action Works's nonprofit status, public web materials, annual-report materials, or fee disclosures give some but incomplete transparency into the cost of its work.

Cost Transparency Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

14Community Action Works's own materials describe policy advocacy, lobbying, candidate support, public-pressure campaigns, or citizen mobilization aimed at changing public rules.

Policy Capture Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

15Community Action Works's model recruits, trains, bills, or mobilizes students and young organizers, making youth-culture and early-career capture a direct axis-specific concern.

Youth Capture Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

16Community Action Works's public materials do not give a complete plain-language map of governance control, related entities, fund flows, staff power, and constituent consent.

Accountability Opacity Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

17Community Action Works's mission framing can bind staff, students, donors, and volunteers to a moralized activist identity as well as to specific practical public goals.

Identity Capture Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

18Community Action Works's public language often presents a contested political program as public interest, fairness, science, democracy, or nonpartisan necessity rather than as an explicit ideological standpoint.

Ideological Disavowal Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

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