The Community Advocacy Project (CAP) is a collaboration between the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights (MWC), Mississippi Action for Community Education (MACE) and Quitman County Development Organization, Inc. (QCDO). It was established to provide low wage workers and their families with information about basic rights and entitlements. CAP is a community resource that assists those who are most often denied information that if obtained, could improve the quality of their lives. Through community forums, public hearings, community canvasses, popular education campaigns and rights-based trainings, local residents will develop strategies to combat workplace discrimination, environmental pollution, predatory lending, school segregation and inequality and the lack of decent affordable housing.

On June 21, 2004, CAP conducted its first Canvass for Human Needs in memory of slain civil rights workers: Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney. The canvasses were held in Sharkey, Quitman, Grenada, Hinds and Montgomery counties to discuss concerns of local residents and find out more about pressing problems low-income people face in Mississippi. Other subsequent canvasses were held in Washington, Claiborne, Sunflower, and Leflore counties.

Information obtained from the "Needs" canvass will be used to convene hearings before state legislators, government officials, social service agency representatives, public school officials and others. Information also will be used to publish a "Know Your Rights" manual that will be distributed to 15,000 families across the Delta and other parts of the state.