The mission of the Voter Participation Program is to increase voter participation among historically disenfranchised communities. For over 20 years, Project Vote has developed and run large-scale voter registration drives and Get Out the Vote programs that placed paid canvassers—occasionally volunteers—of local community organizations in high traffic sites in neighborhoods of color.
Currently, Project Vote fulfills this mission by providing specialized technical help to partner organizations and nonprofit service providers who want to run voter engagement efforts within their constituencies, and by contributing leadership, knowledge, and critical infrastructure to the civic engagement sector.
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Obama’s Forgotten Base
A new poll from Project Vote of 2008 voters is a refreshing corrective to the Tea Party narrative. Read more
New Poll Shows More Americans Want a Government That Does More, Not Less
Today, Project Vote released What Happened to Hope and Change? A Poll of 2008 Voters, a new report summarizing the... Read more
The An-Tea Party
The GOP is not America, and a majority of Republican voters is not the same as a majority of all voters. Enter Project Vote’s new poll, which focuses on the black, youth and low-income voters… Read more
New Poll Presents the 2008 Electorate’s Views on Government
Today Project Vote released What Happened to Hope and Change? A Poll of 2008 Voters, a new report summarizing the results of a telephone survey of 1,947 Americans who cast ballots in 2008, analyzing their views on the role of government, government spending, and the budget. T Read more
What Happened to Hope and Change? A Poll of 2008 Voters
This report summarizes the findings of a poll, conducted in July 2010, which reveals that most Americans are dissatisfied with the current state of the country, but a clear majority of them want their government to do more, not less. Read more
Labor Seeks to Mobilize Jobless, Progressive Base
The importance of labor, youth, and minority voters in the upcoming midterm election was underscored in an important briefing paper by Project Vote's Lorraine Minnite… Read more
What Happened to Hope and Change? How Fascination with the Tea Party Obscures the Significance of the 2008 Electorate
Less than two years after the 2008 election, the rising American electorate has been largely forgotten, their issues ignored, and their voices drowned out by “Tea Party” rhetoric. Read more
Election Day Preparations Reach New Heights, but Will Voters Turn Out?
If there is a checklist for Election Day preparations, policy makers, candidates, and voter registration advocates have covered many bases... Read more
The Sierra Club and Voting for America Announce Partnership to Help Register Young Americans in 2010
Today the Sierra Club, America's oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization, and Voting for America, an affiliate of the voting rights nonprofit Project Vote, announced a new nonpartisan initiative to help over 50,000 students of community and four-year colleges in seven states register to vote for the 2010 election. Read more
WaPo: Interest Groups to Spend Record Amounts in 2010 Elections
For the upcoming 2010 midterm elections, nearly two dozen political advocacy groups are expected to exceed even what they spent... Read more