Voter Registration

The Fund ran the Community Voters Project to register low-income minority voters for the 2004 and 2008 elections. We ran campaign offices in Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Ohio.  Fund staff applied decades of experience in grassroots organizing to develop a model for a successful large-scale voter registration effort built around face-to-face contact.  Between 2004 and 2008, the Fund registered nearly 400,000 new voters. 

In 2010, the Fund launched a campaign with the Progressive Future Education Fund Community Voters Project to register voters in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio.