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Summit prepares college students for advancing 2020 voter participation
Andrew’s legacy and passion for equality now lives on through the organization’s Vote Everywhere program. The five-day summit provides student participants with training, strategies and tools needed to advance voter participation on their college campuses with the 2020 elections approaching.
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These voters outnumber baby boomers. What college students want to do in 2020.
Students from New Jersey and as far away as Louisiana gathered at Montclair State University this week for a 5-day summit to undergo training needed to increase civic engagement on their campuses in preparation of the upcoming 2020 election, learning from some of the country’s most insightful speakers and visionaries.
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College students from across the country strategize solutions for voter apathy
About 150 students on Thursday discussed the widespread distrust about the electoral process on their campuses — from Iowa to Illinois to Ohio to New Jersey — at the 2019 National Civic Leadership Training Summit, a five-day event that takes place through Sunday at Montclair State University.
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Oxford Girl Scout Presents Her Mural Honoring Three Slain Civil Rights Workers of 1964 Freedom Summer
Cope, a rising senior at Talawanda High School, received a $1,000 grant from the E. W. Smith Family Charitable Trust to create the mural as a project for her Gold award from the Girl Scouts of America. The mural honors three civil rights volunteers who trained in Oxford during the Freedom Summer of 1964 and were murdered in Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan a few weeks later as they tried to register voters there.
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Register to Vote at Suffolk County Community College
Suffolk County Community College's Center for Social Justice and Understanding partnered with The Andrew Goodman Foundation to walk students through the process of voter registration.
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Michigan’s voting rights initiative highlights a push to engage campuses
A briefing on how student-led lawsuits and policy initiatives are transforming campus civic engagement. - Education Dive
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NJ Non-Profit to Host National Civic Leadership Summit for College Students at MSU
The annual Summit brings together student leaders from across the country who are part of the organization’s Vote Everywhere and Puffin Democracy Fellows programs. It provides them with training, strategies, and tools needed to advance youth leadership, civic engagement, and voter participation on their college campuses. -InsiderNJ
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Voting Advocates Sue Tennessee Over Tougher New Law
The Andrew Goodman Foundation's Managing Director Maxim Thorne discusses the Foundation's reason behind joining a lawsuit against Tennessee's restrictive new voting law with Diverse Issues Inside Higher Education.
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The Great Debate at Georgia State
Vote Everywhere Georgia State hosted its second annual Great Debate between the Georgia State College Republicans and Young Democrats.
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MDC student receives award for her civic leadership
Fiorenza Herrera Diaz, a sophomore and Vote Everywhere Ambassador at Miami Dade College, was named a Campus Compact 2019 Newman Civic Fellow for her dedication to finding solutions to challenges facing communities across the country. -Miami Herald
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