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- NVEN: Helping Nonprofits Engage Voters: Started by the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, the Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network (NVEN) is a non-partisan initiative to support nonprofit groups during the election period.
- College Students Encourage Youth Voter Turnout with Save: After being forced to wait in line for ten hours to vote because the voting precinct was not allocated enough voting machines, Matthew Segal became engaged with election issues while in college, sparking the policy reform platform that SAVE promotes.
- Michigan Nonprofits Form Michigan Voice to Engage Voters: To fight back and get social justice issues back on the state agenda, several dozen 501(c)(3) organizations decided they needed a more cohesive voice for social justice in Michigan. Out of this desire, Michigan Voice was born. This year they have launched a cooperative project to share voter files, in order to target voter registration drives more effectively.
- Western States Center’s VOTE Project Trains Nonprofits to Engage Voters and to Build Their Organizations for the Long-term: Project VOTE is about more than voting: it helps groups use increased public interest in issues during election season as a way of building community involvement and civic engagement for the long term.
- The California Votes Initiative (CVI), a project of the James Irvine Foundation, works to increase voter participation rates among infrequent voters, particularly in low-income and ethnic communities. The initiative will involve a variety of outreach approaches and the efforts of 10 nonprofit organizations.
- The New Voters Project is a nonpartisan effort to register young people and get them to the polls on Election Day. In 2006, the New Voters Project helped to register 75,000 students to vote. Leading up to Election Day, the Project made 94,000 personalized Get Out the Vote reminders either over the phone or face-to-face, including 50,000 contacts on Monday and Tuesday alone.
- In 2004 the provided an excellent example of how nonprofits can help with elections with their "Voter Empowerment Cards." These small brochures, currently available for several states, contain information on registration, finding polling places, avoiding election day problems, and contact information in case these is a problem. Check them out here.
- The Minnesota Participation Project (MPP) is an effort to support and expand the capacity of Minnesota nonprofit organizations to effectively engage in permissible nonpartisan voter engagement efforts — registration, voter education, and get-out-the-vote activities. To learn more about MPP, read the showcase.
- The Virginia Organizing Project is a group dedicated to helping people in local communities address issues that affect their lives. Their voter registration toolbox is an excellent example of how nonprofits help support democracy. To access their toolbox, which offers detailed instructions on how to run a successful voter registration drive, click here.
- This innovative project, sponsored by the South Carolina Progressive Network, allows groups to target voter registration drives by providing detailed maps of areas with low voter registration. The data is searchable by several demographics including age, race, income, housing status, past voting, and several others. See it here.
- The Minnesota Participation Project (MPP) is an effort to support and expand the capacity of Minnesota nonprofit organizations to effectively engage in permissible nonpartisan voter engagement efforts — registration, voter education, and get-out-the-vote activities. To learn more about MPP, read the showcase.