Back to School with New Voters!
As the 2024 election approaches, learn about how to support our work and what we've been up to!
Our vision is that every high school student registers and pledges to vote before they graduate. This will add 4 million students to the voter roll every year and set up students for lifelong civic engagement. The 2024 election is fast approaching - read on to see how you can support us in our mission and for a snapshot of our activities!
Urgent Volunteer Need: We need your help reaching our goal of running drives in 400 high schools in PA + AZ! Click the button above or fill out this form to join us for any of our daily virtual activations the week of 9/9 as we systematically recruit students and partners to run registration drives in PA + AZ! This is a great way for anyone to support our mission directly, regardless of age or state.
GRADFEST
The largest high school voting party. ever.
On August 4th in Chester County PA, there was GradFest. And it was big. With over 360 RSVPs and 200+ attendees, the event was a HUGE success, registering and preparing high school students to vote before they head off to college 🎉🏆Check out coverage from NBC Philadelphia and CBS Philadelphia to see the event in action!
The 2.5 hour event was jam-packed with a SpikeBall tournament with 50+ teams, a live DJ, $1000’s in prizes in our raffle, free Rita’s and tacos, torrential rain, and of course, voter activation! Thank you to our partners Show Up Strong 24, PA Youth Vote, Vote Early Day, and Chester County Voter Services for their support. A huge shoutout to our incredible team of PA students who mobilized the entire community to attend and support GradFest, and organized the event (twice! because it was rained out in June).
🤝 Get Involved!
Everyone: Refer a high school student you know to run a registration drive! Or join us at any of our activations the week of 9/9 to recruit student leaders (button above).
Undergraduates: Get paid to mentor high school students with New Voters
High School Students: Sign up to run a drive at your high school!
🌟 New Voters Updates
Our 2024 Plans
Our goal: run registration drives in 400 high schools in Arizona and Pennsylvania and register 40,000 students to vote. We will also empower student leaders to be life-long civic participants and pairing them with a personal college mentor. Check out our full 2024 plan in our deck!
Introducing Margaux Granath, our new Program Manager!
We are so thrilled to introduce our new program manager, Margaux Granath! Margaux graduated from the University of Minnesota, magna cum laude, with a B.A. in political science. As an undergraduate, she led First Amendment reforms on campus and assisted in research on threats to civil liberties. She joins New Voters with half a decade of event management, outreach, and student engagement experience. Margaux is based in Denver, Colorado where she enjoys skiing, cooking, and creating her own board games. She is looking forward to supporting New Voters in its efforts to mobilize a generation of students to vote! Please reach out to Margaux to chat about how to get involved with our voter registration work, partnership inquiries, or to just say hi!: margaux@new-voters.org
IGNITE AANHPI Fellowship
Powered by APIAVote and New Voters, join AANHPI students in making a change in your high school through leading a voter registration drive while building community with other AANHPI youth leaders. Check out our IGNITE AANHPI Fellowship which runs through November with three flagship events. Our first event was on August 28th and we are excited to welcome more than 50 students into this joint fellowship!
🗞️ New Voters in the News 📰
From the cover of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, to an article detailing all of New Voters’ activities in NBC News, to to a speech on C-SPAN that our founder gave right after Secretary Buttigieg, to a joint op-ed in Teen Vogue, we have been active in the media! Click on the hyperlinks above to check out a few of our press features.
Sincerely,
Jahnavi and the New Voters Team