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Organizations Active with Philly Schools and Young People
Organizations Active with Philly Schools and Young People
Organizing in Philly Schools? Complete the Partner Organization Survey to be added to our network!
Organizing in Philly Schools? Complete the Partner Organization Survey to be added to our network!
Asian Americans United - Working in schools and community to register and GOTV, as well as help with citizenship applications. Contact Wei Chen IG FB Tw
The Civics Center - The Civics Center is the principal organizer of High School Voter Registration Week (September 21 - 25) as well as the Ready to Vote Coalition. We host online workshops for student leaders to learn how to organize their peers and plan digital voter registration drives. We hope that every high school in Philadelphia registers a drive with High School Voter Registration Week. We can also provide training and physical resources for students to host drives. Contact James Wenz. IG FB Tw
Committee of Seventy / WeVote provides lesson materials and is a wealthy source of local election information. Their website is indispensable. See the Draw the Lines Teacher Toolkit. We're partnering with the Mayor's Office of Youth Engagement and the School District of Philadelphia on Poll Worker recruitment and training, and voter education/awareness - particularly around vote-at-home. Contact Lauren Cristella. IG FB Tw YT
HeadCount Philly - We provide voter registration services, and empower youth to get out and vote. HeadCount is the official voter registration partner of March for Our Lives and the Made in America Festival. Contact Kelly Chambers. IG
Just Act, Go Vote: A People's Jam on Justice - Bring interactive forum theater to your school and have students use theater to challenge people and encourage people to vote. Contact Lisa Jo Epstein. IG FB Tw YT
The League or Women Voters of Philadelphia The League of Women Voters of Philadelphia is recruiting young poll workers, and conducting voter advocacy around mail-in ballots. See their High School Voter Registration Training Manual. Contact Natalie Parker. IG FB Tw YT
Make the Road PA - Organizing the working class in Latino communities, building power for Justice. Voter registration and GOTV in schools. Contact Ivan García. IG FB Tw
Netter Center / Civic Engagement Summer - A non-partisan six week service learning program provided by the University of Pennsylvania Netter Center for Community Partnerships University-Assisted Community Schools Program. Each summer, we hire a cohort of 6-10 high school students through the Philadelphia Youth Network (PYN) to work on youth voter engagement efforts. Contact Jay Falk. IG FB Tw TT
Netter Center / Civic Youth Action Partnership - A Penn student initiative working with middle school youth on civic engagement. Contact Cory Bowman. IG FB Tw
New Voters - New Voters is a national nonprofit dedicated to helping students register to vote. Through our signature near-peer model, we pair high school students with college mentors, and train the high school students to run voter registration drives in their schools. Contact Kate Travis. IG FB Tw
PA Department of State is offering schools and students the opportunity to earn the Governor's Civic Engagement Award and is in charge of the whole electoral process in the state! FB Tw
Philadelphia City Commissioners / Student Poll Worker Program The commissioners administer elections in the city and will come to schools with voting booths for nonpartisan assemblies about elections and voting. They'll even run your student council elections! Call and ask them to pick up your registration forms: 215-686-3460 Student Poll Worker Program, Contact Joe Driscoll. Tw
SDP Office of Curriculum & Instruction - Offers civics curricula, professional development, resources for National Voter Registration Day, and pickup/delivery of voter registration forms. Contact Yaasiyn Muhammad or Shaquita Smith.
SEAMAAC Lends voter registration tablets, does training and GOTV phone banking in schools and community. Contact Andy Toy. IG FB Tw YT
Urban League of Philadelphia - An affiliate of the National Urban League, is a nonpartisan civil rights organization that has empowered African Americans and other underserved communities for more than a century. Through housing, employment, entrepreneurship, youth development, health and wellness and advocacy, we impact more than 15,000 children, youth and families a year. Contact Tomas Varela FB IG Tw
UrbEd Advocates - We are a nonprofit organization that wants to help the youth be registered and educated voters. Contact Luke Risher. IG FB Tw
Urban League of Philadelphia - An affiliate of the National Urban League, is a nonpartisan civil rights organization that has empowered African Americans and other underserved communities for more than a century. Through housing, employment, entrepreneurship, youth development, health and wellness and advocacy, we impact more than 15,000 children, youth and families a year. Contact Tomas Varela FB, IG, Tw W
VietLEAD - We are a nonpartisan community organization that works with Southeast Asian and immigrant students and young adults on youth empowerment and civic engagement projects. Every summer we also run RICE, short for Real Internship for Civic Engagement, to teach high school and college students about integrated voter engagement. Contact Anh Nguyen. IG FB Tw
Vote That Jawn! - Using the power of youth voice and connection, #VoteThatJawn aims to bring 18-year-olds and other first-time voters to the polls—beginning a process toward full civic engagement—not just for a charismatic candidate, but to advocate for youth safety, agency, and inclusion. Through our website of curated, by-youth, for-youth content, virtual and in-person voter registration events, and Summer 2020 Internship program, #VoteThatJawn helps young people in Philadelphia and beyond find their voting "jawn" and register themselves and their peers to vote. Contact Lorene Cary. IG FB Tw YT TT
Voter Education and Participation for Youth (VEPY) - A program designed to encourage, educate and increase voter participation among youth. Contact Rosemary Chapman and Arnold Singletary 215-252-6109 or 215-908-6500
When Philly Votes / When We All Vote - WWAV is working to reduce the age and race gap in voting. Contact Angie Hinton. IG FB Tw YT TT
WHYY Youth Media Labs - Hands-on media arts training in schools and at WHYY studios. Contact Lisa Wilk. IG FB YT
Youth United for Change - YUC is a program that trains young people to organize to change issues in their schools and communities as well as register their peers and communities to vote. We train young people to follow up with community members about the voting process and getting to the polls. Contact Kat Engleman. IG FB Tw
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