From Arizona Heat to NYC Streets: Empowering Young Voters
This September, read about our NVRD textbank, upcoming workshop with the Smithsonian, in-person presentations and youth-led tech tools!
A newsletter giving you handcrafted monthly updates about our voter registration efforts in our goal to register one million youth voters.
ARIZONA PRESENTATIONS
Written by Annie Chen (High School ‘25) and Sahana Donepudi (High School ‘25)
Temperatures might be cooling down in Arizona, but our voter registration efforts are heating up. Arizona is one of our two focus states, alongside Pennsylvania, and the 4th highest state on CIRCLE's Youth Electoral Significance Index, meaning young Arizonans across the political spectrum have a high likelihood of shaping Presidential, Senate, and House races in 2024.
With the 2024 Presidential Election happening in just under 60 days, the New Voters team in Arizona has been increasing their on-the-ground and virtual organizing efforts. In the last month, our team has conducted 8+ in-person AZ presentations and trainings with partners such as the Arizona Geo Civics Coalition, the Arizona Youth Climate Coalition, the YWCA of Metropolitan Phoenix, and more to mobilize high school students to run their own drives, and most importantly, register to vote!
Most recently, New Voters presented at the Arizona Speech and Debate Coaches conference at Brophy High School. We were able to meet speech and debate coaches from all over the valley and share ways to register eligible student voters at local speech and debate tournaments before the October 7th deadline!
🌟 New Voters Updates
We’re excited to share that we’re partnering up with 18by Vote to host a virtual text bank event on National Voter Registration Day (Sept. 17) at 8:00 pm ET/5:00 pm PT! Register to attend the event today by visiting whativotefor.org! ✨
New Voters is participating in the 11th annual National Youth Summit Sept. 17-24 titled “Elections & Politics.” The summit is an outreach program organized by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in partnership with Smithsonian Affiliations. New Voters will be hosting a workshop on running a voter registration drives, played at hundreds of affiliate Smithsonian museums across the country. Register now! https://s.si.edu/nys
YOUTH CIVIC HUB
Written by Yacoub Kahkajian (Princeton University ‘26)
This summer, I had the honor of serving as a Product Management Intern for New Voters. I spearheaded the launch of the Youth Civic Hub: part of a groundbreaking initiative by the Office of the New York City Public Advocate and powered by YVote and New Voters, to increase civic education among Gen Z New Yorkers. This ambitious project aimed to consolidate opportunities and resources from over 50 nonprofits into a single, LinkedIn-like platform targeted at New York City’s youth.
Key accomplishments this summer include:
Revamping the Opportunities Board with enhanced search filters, infinite scroll, referral links, and detailed descriptions.
Redesigning the Civic Glossary to facilitate both casual browsing and in-depth research for power users.
Creating a new Organization Directory that streamlines the process of filtering, connecting with, and applying for civic opportunities across various nonprofits and government organizations.
Integrating sign-up fields for the weekly newsletter and developing responsive, on-brand email templates for the content team.
Automating backend processes to ensure the website continues running smoothly and is continually updated with the content team's latest.
These enhancements (and much, much more!) aligned the platform to the tastes of Gen Z netizens. The Youth Civic Hub has been growing faster than ever, attracting nearly 10,000 visitors over the summer and garnering recognition in publications such as The 74 Media and NBC News, as well as the New York City Public Advocate.
🤝 Get Involved!
Everyone: Refer a high school student you know to run a registration drive!
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 in the News 📰
As the election approaches, we have been fortunate to be featured in various news outlets by talented student and professional journalists! Check out the L’Oréal Paris Women of Worth announcement, a video of our PA Team on CNN Anderson Cooper 360°, a fun feature of our founder in the Washington Post, our team’s comments in The Fulcrum, and quotes in Harbinger’s magazine (the world’s youngest newsroom)!
📝 Opportunities 🏆
From funding and paid fellowship opportunities for high school students, to voting parties in every major city, to teacher trainings and Executive Director roles, check out these opportunities from our incredible partners below:
Voice of Democracy Scholarship: If you are a democracy-loving high school student interested in a $35,000 college scholarship, this is for you! Apply now.
College Service Grants: Calling all college students!! Apply to get money for your youth-led service initiatives.
18by Vote: Partners can sign up to join the #whativotefor campaign
Youth Civic Hub Paid Student Fellowship Opportunities:
Outreach Fellow Application
Tech Fellow Application
YVote is looking for its next Executive Director! This NYC-based organization combats low youth voter turnout and the disinvestment in civic education through out-of-school civics programs and youth leadership development. See the full job description here to learn more and apply!
Generation Citizen: RISE Vote 2024 State-Based Teacher Training on Voter Registration and Pre-registration
Party to the Polls: party with us in every city with Daybreakers at the PURPLE TOUR - get free tickets now!
Sincerely,
Jahnavi, Margaux, and the New Voters Team
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