In the wake of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there is Giving Tuesday, the answer to post-Thanksgiving consumerism. On Tuesday November 27th, millions of people will come together to support the causes and organizations they believe in. If you love the life-changing work we do with young people, please consider supporting Campus Election Engagement Project [...]
We were delighted that youth turnout increased from 21% in 2014 to 31% in 2018, higher than any mid-term total in 25 years. Media analysts are still crunching the numbers, but from early estimates, this means something like 4.5 million more young voters than if they’d voted at the levels [...]
When it comes to organizing, cooperation is the name of the game and CEEP Fellows Hieu Van Le and Kevin Wong did a masterful job at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. The team organized across the campus working with the Service Learning program and coordinating with #UNLVolunteers. In [...]
A message from the Campus Election Engagement Project’s National Director, Amy Ludwig: Today is election day, and for those of us working in organizations such as the Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP), we have been preparing and helping schools across the country get ready for this day all year. Administrators, [...]
The Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP) is making an impact in Colorado. More than eighteen Colorado CEEP partner campuses scheduled election engagement activities during new student orientation and Welcome Week, primarily focused on voter registration, and include voter education and get out the vote elements. CEEP Colorado State Director, [...]
Since its inception in 2008, the Campus Election Engagement Project has been working with other nonpartisan organizations, including Vote.org, to share effective voter education, voter registration, and get-out-the-vote tools. Vote.org “uses technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy.” From all the research, peer-to-peer texting is [...]
Michigan CEEP Director Dan Schultz reports Michigan fellows’ spring success is being built upon by the fall fallows. Schultz noted that “the strong registration spring efforts from CEEP Michigan fellows are leading to great current and future voter registration, voter education, and GOTV efforts. I anticipate a strong turnout [...]
For most of my life, a lot of people I knew thought politics were too complicated to understand, too divisive or too uninteresting to involve themselves in. After November of 2016, however, all of that changed. The 2016 general election caused people on both sides of the aisle to become [...]
Da’juh Sawyer’s, CEEP’s Central Florida Assistant Director, fellows played a vital role in registering as many students to vote as possible on National Voter Registration Day (NVRD). According to Nonprofit Vote’s National Voter Registration Day site, “National Voter Registration Day is a national holiday celebrating our democracy. It was first [...]
Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP) State Director, Donna Anderson, and CEEP Arizona Fellow, Michael Newman, coordinated with the Associated Students of the University of Arizona to host an exciting National Voter Registration Day event in the Student Pavilion. Several tents were up representing voter registration groups, student groups, and outside [...]
