PARTNERS

10 Questions
10Questions, a project of Personal Democracy Forum, is the first truly people-powered online candidate forum that seeks to involve millions of voters in prioritizing the questions they want answered, and moving politicians away from sound-bites to in-depth discussion of issues. Submit, view, and vote on questions for your candidates at www.10Questions.com.
Advocates for Youth
Advocates for Youth works with parents, policy makers, health professionals, and young people themselves to champion efforts to ensure that young people have access to the education, information, and services they need to help protect their health and lives. In 2009, Advocates launched Amplify, an online community dedicated to sexual health, reproductive justice, and youth-led grassroots movement building.
Black Youth Vote
Black Youth Vote! is a broad based coalition of organizations and individuals committed to increasing political and civic involvement among black men and women aged 18-35. BYV! is youth led and dedicated to educating young voters in the Black community who are increasingly disenfranchised and alienated from the electoral and legislative process.
The Bus Federation Civics Fund
The Bus Federation Civics Fund is an innovative vehicle for hands-on democracy. We drive leaders. We drive votes. We drive change. We drive Trick or Vote. (And, yes, we drive buses.)The Bus Federation engages the next generation of voters and leaders, mobilizing thousands of volunteers for political action and civic engagement. We do it all, with one constant: combining fun and politics. So go ahead, Get on the Bus!
The Bus Project
The Bus Project is an innovative vehicle for hands-on democracy. We drive leaders. We drive votes. We drive change. (And yes, we have a Bus.)

Founded in 2001, the Bus Project engages the next generation of voters and leaders, mobilizing thousands of volunteers in Oregon and four Western states. Programs like Trick or Vote get-out-the-vote with costumed volunteers on Halloween; Bus Votes registers tens of thousands of Oregonians; and PolitiCorps trains the next generation of young leaders.td>
Campus Progress
Campus Progress is a national organization that works with and for young people to promote progressive solutions to key political and social challenges. Through programs in activism, journalism, and events, Campus Progress engages a diverse group of young people nationwide, inspires them to embrace progressive values, provides them with essential trainings, and helps them to make their voices heard — and to push policy outcomes in a strongly progressive direction.
Change.org
Change.org is a cause-based media network and online hub for social change that helps to launch, promote, and syndicate advocacy campaigns across the web. Our team raises awareness about major social issues at the local, national and international levels and connects readers to opportunities for powerful collective action. Change.org runs leading communities for 16 major causes ranging from climate change to women’s rights to poverty, each of which leverages partnerships with local and national nonprofits to create change on the most pressing issues of our time. By aggregating content and activist campaigns from thousands of nonprofit and individuals, we serve as the central platform for empowering movements for social change.
Circle
CIRCLE (The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement) is a national, non-partisan research center focused on young people’s civic and political engagement. CIRCLE conducts and collects research on the civic and political engagement of young Americans and is based at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University.
Democracia
Democracia Ahora’s mission is to increase the prominence and participation of Hispanics in every aspect of the political process. D-Ahora is committed to a grassroots approach which involves staying engaged year round in the communities we serve.
Energy Action Coalition
Energy Action Coalition is a coalition of 50 youth-led environmental and social justice groups working together to build the youth clean energy and climate movement.

Working with hundreds of campus and youth groups, dozens of youth networks, and hundreds of thousands of young people, Energy Action Coalition and its partners have united a movement behind winning local clean and just energy victories and coordinating on state, regional, and national levels in the United States and Canada.
Fair Elections Legal Network
The Fair Elections Legal Network (FELN) is a national, nonpartisan advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. whose overall mission is to remove barriers to registration and voting for traditionally underrepresented constituencies including youth and college students. We are working to improve overall election administration through administrative, legal, and legislative reform. In addition to our in-house staff, we have access to a network of experienced election lawyers that we mobilize to remove impediments to voting well in advance of Election Day.
Global Grind
GlobalGrind.com is a community celebrating the music, entertainment, politics, culture and fashion of the hip-pop generation. Founded by Russell Simmons, GlobalGrind.com is the online destination for celebrity content, hard hitting news and the latest in music and culture.
Head Count
HeadCount registers voters at concerts and works with musicians to promote participation in democracy. Through its ties to dozens of artists and concert promoters, HeadCount has registered over 150,000 voters and inspired millions of young people to be more active citizens.
Hip Hop Caucus
The Hip Hop Caucus organizes young people in urban communities to be active in elections, policymaking, and service projects. The Hip Hop Caucus is a member of the Black Leadership Forum and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. With nearly 700,000 members around the country, in 2008, the Hip Hop Caucus created the “Respect My Vote!” campaign with recording artists T.I. and Keyshia Cole, and in 2004, Hip Hop Caucus President Rev Yearwood co-created the “Vote or Die!” campaign with P Diddy. The Hip Hop Caucus is a non-partisan, non-profit organization.td>
Huffpost College
HuffPost College, founded in February 2010, is national hub of collegiate news featuring breaking stories from around the web and original, insightful works from college students and experts.
Lawyers Committee for Civil rights Under Law
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, was formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to involve the private bar in providing legal services to address racial discrimination. The principal mission of the Lawyers’ Committee is to secure, through the rule of law, equal justice under law.
League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, has fought since 1920 to improve our systems of government and impact public policies through education and advocacy. The League is a grassroots organization, working tirelessly in every state and more than 800 local communities to ensure Americans, especially underrepresented communities, have access to the tools to help them register, vote and be counted. Nationally, the League has served tens of millions of voters, many of them young people, through its cornerstone nonpartisan election resource, www.VOTE411.org.
The League of Young Voters
The League of Young Voters Education Fund (LYVEF) empowers young people nationwide to participate in the democratic process – with a focus on non-college youth and youth from low-income communities and communities of color. LYVEF makes civic engagement relevant by meeting young people where they are, working on issues that affect their lives, and providing them with tools, training, and support to become viable players in the civic process
Long Distance Voter
Long Distance Voter is the internet’s most comprehensive resource for registering and voting by mail. Can’t make it to the polls on election day? Long Distance Voter will help you register to vote and get your absentee ballot. Not sure if you’re already registered? Long Distance Voter can help you verify your status. This non-partisan resource launched in April 2008 and has already helped over 180,000 people participate in state, local and federal elections. Visit them today and let them help you vote again in 2010.
New Era Colorado Foundation
New Era Colorado Foundation is the Colorado chapter of the Bus Federation. We are an organization that engages, educates, and trains a new generation of active citizens and young leaders in Colorado.
Power @ the Polls
Power @ the Polls, a civic engagement campaign of Power Network. Our purpose is to EDUCATE college students in Ohio on ballot issues, polling locations as well as voting and registration rules. REGISTER students to vote at their campus address and ENGAGE them through popular culture.
Project Vote
Project Vote is a national nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes voting in historically underrepresented communities. Project Vote takes a leadership role in nationwide voting rights and election administration issues, working through research, litigation, and advocacy to ensure that our constituencies can register, vote, and cast ballots that count.
Rock The Vote
Rock the Vote’s mission is to engage and build political power for young people in our country. Founded twenty years ago at the intersection of popular culture and politics, Rock the Vote is growing its team and its campaigns in 2010, to support the tidal wave of young people who want to get involved in elections and seize the power of the youth vote to create progressive political and social change.
Roosevelt Campus Network
The Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, a national student initiative, engages young people in a unique form of progressive activism that empowers them as leaders and promotes their ideas for change. Through coordination with political actors and community members, students identify pressing challenges facing their campuses, cities, and states, then, using Roosevelt resources and training sessions, write unique policy solutions to solve them. Adding policy paper to picket signs through this unique form of activism, Roosevelt’s network of 8000 young people at 86 campuses across the country, creates progressive change nationwide by campaigning around student-generated ideas.
The Student Association for Voter Empowerment
The Student Association for Voter Empowerment (SAVE) is a national non-profit organization with a mission to bring young Americans into the political process by eliminating barriers to electoral participation and encouraging youth-led policy solutions that address significant national challenges. Currently, SAVE represents a constituency of over 10,000 students and has chapters on more than 40 college campuses across the country. Last summer, SAVE co-founded the 80 Million Strong Coalition, consisting of 20 nationwide youth organizations, to address unemployment and create a jobs agenda for young workers
Student PIRGS
Here at the Student PIRGs, we organize college students to solve some of the world’s most pressing public interest problems. For nearly 40 years students with their campus PIRG chapters have been making a real difference in people’s lives and winning concrete changes to build a better world
Sierra Student Coalition
The Sierra Student Coalition is the youth-led chapter of the Sierra Club, the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization. Their mission is to train, empower, and organize youth to run effective campaigns that result in tangible environmental victories and develop leaders for the environmental movement.td>
The Media Consortium
The Media Consortium is a network of the country’s leading, progressive, independent media outlets. Our mission is to amplify independent media’s voice, increase our collective clout, leverage our current audience and reach new ones. We believe it is possible and necessary to seize the current moment and change the debate in this country.
United States Student Association
The United States Student Association, the country’s oldest and largest student-led organization, represents over 4 million students nationwide. We work to develop current and future leaders and amplify the student voice at the local, state, and national levels by mobilizing grassroots power to win concrete victories on student issues.
Visible Vote
Visible Vote is the first and only application to allow you to cast your virtual vote and then notify your representatives of your position weekly. Visible Vote also monitors how often your Congressmen vote in alignment with you and the people they represent.
Visible Vote is non-partisan and unbiased service that brings greater transparency and accountability to our representative form of government.
Voting for America
Voting for America, an affiliate of Project Vote, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to building an electorate that truly represents the diversity of the United States. Voting for America provides community partners with tools, training, and support to conduct successful voter registration drives and increase participation among underrepresented Americans.
Voto Latino
Voto Latino is a non-partisan, youth driven, multi-issue, national organization founded for the purpose of creating a unified voice for Latino youth on policy & advocacy issues that impact their lives on a daily basis. Voto Latino also works with local & national organizations in hopes of providing support for local grassroots outreach and voter registering initiatives. Voto Latino’s mission is to ignite this base and activate them to engage in the political process and in doing so provide a vehicle to enact positive change in their communities.
The Washington Bus Education Fund
The Washington Bus engages tomorrow’s leaders on their own terms, and empowers

them through education, civic and cultural engagement, and hands-on democracy. By registering young voters and getting them to vote, we increase the voice and power of young people. Through our education and leadership development programs, we are building the next generation of leaders in Washington State. The Washington Bus: of young people, by young people, and for all people
Young Invincibles
Young Invincibles is a national organization committed to mobilizing and expanding opportunities for all young Americans between 18 and 34 years of age. The organization was founded in the summer of 2009 by a small group of friends to help mobilize young adults around the passage of health care reform and ensure that the legislation met the needs of our generation. Now, Young Invincibles is working hard to make sure that all young Americans can take advantage of the health care benefits available to them, and to identify other areas – jobs, education, student and commercial debt – where the needs of 18 to 34 year olds are not being adequately addressed.
Young People For
Young People For (YP4), is a strategic, long-term leadership development program that identifies, engages, and empowers the newest generation of progressive leaders to create lasting change in their communities. We offer resources, guidance and a wide variety of ongoing opportunities for young leaders to connect with other progressive leaders and organizations, plan and execute projects of their choosing, and learn valuable leadership, communication, organizing, collaboration and advocacy skills.
The Young Turks
The Young Turks is the country’s pre-eminent new media talk show, covering news, politics, pop culture and lifestyle. The TYT Network includes What the Flick?!, the TYT Interviews Channel and The Top Vlog (an aggregation of vlogs by some of the best political bloggers in the nation). The Young Turks was the first nationwide, liberal talk show when it aired on Sirius Satellite Radio in 2002. Since 2005, The Young Turks has been a successful, groundbreaking webcast supplemented by one of the largest and most viewed YouTube channels..
Youth Charge Now!
Youth Charge Now! is a national organization focused on mobilizing and engaging Asian American Pacific Islander and multicultural youth about critical issues they care about. Issues like education, civic engagement, health, immigration, jobs, social justice, environment and stepping up to become leaders in their communities. They also serve as the trusted advisor and communicator to their immigrant families and communities to help engage these difficult to reach communities into dialogue and action. We leverage social media and networks to communicate, connect and inform our communities.
Youth Vote Overseas
Launched in 2008, the nonpartisan Youth Vote Overseas (YVO) is the only Get Out the Vote organization to focus on young American voters (18-29) studying and working abroad. It provides online voter registration tools and services including: voter registration and ballot request tools, dynamic generation of Federal Write-In Absentee Ballots, and up-to-date directories of state election regulations, deadlines and contact information for local election officials. YVO is a project of the nonprofit Overseas Vote Foundation and operates with the support of the Carnegie Corporation.

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