Targeting
the Youth Vote:
Voting or Death?

Vote or Die:
Well, Are They Dead or Did They Vote?

 

Rock the Vote..."dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and empowering young people to change their world

Hip-Hop Summit Action Network..."dedicated to harnessing the cultural relevance of Hip-Hop music to serve as a catalyst for education advocacy and other societal concerns fundamental to the well-being of at-risk youth throughout the United States"

Youth Vote Coalition..."a national nonpartisan coalition of diverse organizations dedicated to engaging youth between the ages of 18-30 in the political process"

Black Youth Vote: National Coalition on Black Civic Participation..."a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization...dedicated to increasing African American participation in civil  society"

Citizen Change..."a non-partisan, non-profit organization with a mission to educate, motivate and empower millions of young Americans to access their power and vote November 2"

Conservative Punk...an organization whose mission includes informing "young voters of today that identify themselves with the punk scene with the facts, rather than rumor and conspiracy theory..."

Campus Compact's Youth Vote Initiative...This "initiative, supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, was created in response to a Campus Compact's survey of its members in 1999 that deemed students, or the youth of America, apathetic to assist organizers in getting students to register, educated, and mobilized to vote."

The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation...Founded in 1976, the National Coalition, through its 80 member organizations, works to address the disenfranchisement of African American voters.

Barack the Youth Vote..."written by young people across the country working to bring Barack Obama to the White House"

Do Something About: Voting ...a place for young people to ask questions and express concerns about the current election and voting

Smoke the Vote...links to CREDO Action, a site providing "progressive commentary, conversations, comics and tools for speaking out for the causes we all believe in"

New Millennium Young Voters Project...an organization of top state election officials that"is making a major commitment to helping reconnect young Americans to the democratic process"

Freedom's Answer..." a non-partisan, non-profit voter turnout campaign led by our nation's youth"

Redeem the Vote...This nonprofit organization's goal is to "increase voter registration and voter turnout by young people of faith all across the nation."

Declare Yourself..."a national nonpartisan, nonprofit campaign to energize and empower a new movement of young voters to participate in the 2004 presidential election"

Smackdown Your Vote!..."an 'apartisan' campaign to encourage young people to become active participants in their democracy and vote."

Punk Voter..."a grassroots coalition of punk bands, punk labels, and, most importantly, punk fans coming together to form a united front in opposition to the dangerous, deadly, and destructive policies of George Bush Jr."

The League of Young Voters..."a national organization that supports young people to build power to solve problems in our communities"

SAVE: Student Association for Voter Empowerment...This non-profit, non-partisan, organization's purpose is to increase accessibility for young voters. It maintains chapters at various colleges and universities in order to coordinate a grassroots effort to reform elections, enhance voter opportunity, and foster a virtue for civic engagement among our generation’s youth.

New Voters Project..."a nonpartisan effort to register young people and get them to the polls on Election Day"

Youth Vote (National Asian Pacific American Panhellenic Association)..."a national nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that encourages and promotes civic participation of Asian Pacific Islander Americans in the electoral and public policy processes at the national, state and local levels"

The Whitehouse Project: Run, Vote, Lead... a "program of The White House Project designed to engage women in the political process as voters, activists and candidates through trainings, inspiration and networking"