Support Our Work — and YOUR Democracy!
Our Largest Generation Project is our most ambitious and innovative project yet. To make it work, we need your help! Please give what you can. Together, we could radically boost high school pre-registration.
For seven years, the activists in our all-volunteer organization accomplished amazing stuff. Our projects ran on the generosity of our members, free and cheap software (that crashed more times than we care to remember!), plus a boatload of sweat equity. This year, to launch our Largest Generation Project, we've incorporated, registered as a charity, applied for non-profit status, and bought more software than we knew existed. It's our most complex and ambitious project yet—an attempt to introduce large-scale in-class pre-registration to juniors and seniors in urban districts, whose often underresourced schools can have some of the lowest rates of pre-registration in the state (some as low as 2%.)
The solution—replacing an “opportunity” model or a “competitive challenge registration drive” model with an education model—isn’t hard. When teachers ensure that every student is ready to vote, county registration rates can reach as high as 96%! Imagine what would happen if they did this year after year: 96% of youth voters could leave high school registered and ready.
Your donation will help us engage teachers to teach the workshop, offer free materials to those who do, buy liability insurance, and contract the tech, design, and bookkeeping consultants we need to hire to track our work, measure our success, and ensure reliability. We need money for postage and postcards. The list goes on! We need about $70,000 to complete the project in all the places where we hope to work. Your donations would help a lot, now.
Our EIN is 99-0768818. Thanks for believing that we can change the world!