What's New

This training covers barriers to voting and how to overcome them, the importance of the 2020 election and this moment to youth personally and collectively, and how to persuade peers and family to vote. It also engages youth in making a plan for mobilizing their peers and identify best practices in carrying out that plan.

This training covers barriers to voting and how to overcome them, the importance of the 2020 election and this moment to youth personally and collectively, and how to persuade peers and family to vote. It also engages youth in making a plan for mobilizing their peers and identify best practices in carrying out that plan.

Renowned civil rights leader Lynda Blackmon Lowery joined members of Making Caring Common's Youth Advisory Board for a conversation on voting rights in part one of our "Get Out the Vote: Voter Mobilization and Civic Education" series.

This session featured representatives from several voter organizations who described volunteer or paid opportunities to work on voter mobilization within their organization. Watch this webinar to find out more about what work is being done on the ground and how you can get involved!

Two of our country's top political communications strategists — Mark McKinnon and Jennifer Palmieri — discussed messaging in Democratic and Republican political campaigns. What is a message? Why is messaging important? How do you mobilize voters through messaging? What are the current messages of the presidential campaigns?

Marshall Ganz, the Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society at Harvard Kennedy School, joined members of the Making Caring Common Youth Advisory Board for a conversation about community organizing and leading change.

University Professor Martha Minow hosted a conversation on voter rights and voter suppression with Kia Simms, an organizer with Fair Fight Action, and Michael Firestone, Chief of Staff at Massachusetts Attorney General's Office.

What is the civic empowerment gap, why does it matter, and how can it be eliminated? In this session, Professor of Education Meira Levinson and CEO Sean A. Floyd discussed insider politics and outsider activism, and why and how youth, people of color, first generation college students, and new Americans can upend traditional power disparities in U.S. politics.

Black Voters Matter Fund co-founder Cliff Albright discussed how BVM Fund and BVM Capacity Building Institute build community and organizational capacity related to Black voting power.