civic engagement
Submitted by davidburstein on Sun, 03/23/2008 - 21:54.
18 in ’08 (www.18in08.com) is an unprecedented a national nonpartisan peer to peer youth voter engagement and mobilization organization created to register, engage, and mobilize young voters specifically for the 2008 election. The primary tool used to engage voters is the documentary film “18 in ‘08” through screenings of the film, followed by discussions with leaders and students and on site voter registration.
Submitted by ME3Amber on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 18:54.
Helping out the community or volunteering can sometimes seem difficult to get started in, especially if you have never tried it out before.ME³ stands for Motivate, Educate, Empower, and Engage. Our goal is to make being an empowered citizen and getting involved in helping the community as easy and fulfilling as possible. That’s what our program, Communities In Action (CIA), is all about.CIA is a 'databank' of individuals in Wake County, NC, who have signed up to get involved in helping the community become a brighter, happier place to live for everybody.
Submitted by rshinners on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 21:03.
In a six week long summer experience, Georgetown students would act as coaches, empowering and inspiring students from Southeast DC to identify and tackle the problems in their community. The undergraduate participants would also work to change the problems that they perceive on Georgetown’s campus. The goals of the program are:
1. To improve the experience of Georgetown students by increasing connectedness within the student body and between students and university administration
2. To encourage and facilitate student work for change on campus
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Submitted by Matthew Segal on Sat, 01/05/2008 - 12:22.
Over the past year, a group of college students has been working on an initiative in order to increase voter turnout among young Americans and promote a culture of deeper political discourse and responsiveness between politicians and their young constituents. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Education, only 25% of young voters (ages 18-29) voted in 2006. Similarly, the United States ranks 139th in a list of democracies that turn out to vote, far behind nations that lack the most basic of infrastructure.
Submitted by Kari Winter on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 11:37.
Established in 1967, the Minnesota State University Student Association (MSUSA) is an independent, non-profit organization funded and operated by students. MSUSA serves over 70,000 students attending Minnesota’s seven state universities: Bemidji, Mankato, Metropolitan (St. Paul/Minneapolis), Moorhead, St. Cloud, Southwest (Marshall) and Winona.
MSUSA has been a strong voice for state university students on the campus, system, state and federal levels for 40 years.
Submitted by iholeman on Sat, 08/11/2007 - 17:44.
We are in the process of building a social networking platform for forward thinking students and active members of civil society. We look to adopt the the tools that have been designed by the corporations that drive consumption, and adapt them to achieve personal inspiration and broad civic engagement. We believe providing a user oriented information management network that filters out less important information and highlights information based on user-specific relevancy will make activists more efficient and effective, as well as happier.
Submitted by iholeman on Sat, 08/11/2007 - 17:33.
We are in the process of building a social networking platform for forward thinking students and active members of civil society. Our venture will be called SquarePeg, and will use the url SquarePegged.org.
Web based social networking is an exploding trend, but many of the social tools driving corporate expansion have yet to be adapted to the goals of inspired change makers. We work under the assumption that, when presented with the right opportunity or information, everyone has the potential to be inspired, and that each inspired individual can and will promote social progress.
Submitted by myoung2 on Wed, 06/13/2007 - 11:16.
Each year, the Younger Women's Task Force brings its chapters director together for an annual retreat, referred to as the Leadership Training Institute. Each institute has a theme-the theme of the 2006 Institute was Media Justice and the 2005 theme for the Institute was Political Activism. This year's theme is Younger Women and Civic Activism. The goal of this year's Leadership Institute is to engage young women leaders and collectively work to make sure our voices are heard.
Submitted by kma274 on Wed, 04/18/2007 - 14:20.
The organization I am passionately dedicated to is Mobilize.org. Mobilize.org is an all-partisan network dedicated to educating, empowering, and energizing young people to increase our civic engagement and political participation. We operate through Mobilizer Teams who serve as our ground troops in the war against political apathy. These teams bring together local activists and leaders to help pave the highway to youth empowerment. One of the projects that I have worked on through my involvement with Mobilize.org is the Caesar Chavez 10th Grade Community Action Project.
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