Guides.vote engages potential voters, especially young voters, by providing clear, insightful, and well-sourced candidate information so they can draw clear contrasts and counter misinformation. We do so by creating and distributing nonpartisan candidate guides for America’s most important elections. Our guides give voters the confidence they need to participate, understand the stakes, and make informed decisions. The guides highlight where candidates stand on key issues, with links to credible sources. Concise, trustworthy, and user-friendly, our resources help people rise above the myth that voting is not worthwhile because candidates are “all the same.” They’re distributed by organizations including Black Voters Matter, Mi Familia Vota, the NAACP, Nonprofit Vote, Vote.org, Youth Service America, Teen Vogue, and Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. Working with groups like Andrew Goodman Foundation and Campus Vote Project, we also reach hundreds of college campuses.

Collaborating with our terrific partners, we distributed 600,000 individual nonpartisan guides in our first year. Colleges with a total enrollment of 715,000 also posted enlarged versions as banners and posters in high-traffic locations, as did some community groups. The guides traveled further as individuals emailed them to friends, shared them on social media, and even posted printed versions on neighborhood lamp posts.

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The mission of the Ms. Foundation for Women is to build women’s collective power in the United States to advance equity and justice for all.

The foundation invites applications for one of its six grantmaking initiatives, the Activist Collaboration and Care Fund, which aims to deepen collaboration within and across movement-building organizations, affirm organizations’ need for healing and rest and catalyze increased investment in social justice movements nationwide. ACF aims to correct the often-difficult experiences of women and nonbinary people of color-led organizations in accessing philanthropic funds that more mainstream, well-resourced, and white-led organizations often obtain.

The fund will invest approximately $1 million in organizations and networks of, by, and for trans and cis women and girls of color and nonbinary people of color, with individual grants ranging from $15,000 to $25,000. Areas of funding the foundation will consider include:

Collaboration: Efforts to deepen relationships, build trust, or strategize across organizations, including building shared understanding, repairing relationships, working through challenges that stall collaboration, and developing plans for acting collectively.

Healing, rest, and restoration: Efforts to heal from intergenerational trauma and/or violence (as well as from movement- and organizing-related trauma and violence) or invest in the restoration and rest of staff. This might include (but is not limited to) investments in training, convenings, or spaces that enable individuals or organizations to heal, rest, and restore, as well as investments in meditation, mindfulness, somatic practices, conflict resolution support, and/or child and elder care.

Rapid response: Efforts to respond to immediate threats, such as an unexpected/evolving policy change that harms community members or responding to unanticipated opportunities that emerge to set new legal or policy precedents.

Digital infrastructure and digital safety: Efforts to improve an organization’s digital infrastructure and/or increase digital or physical safety.

At least 50 percent of the organization’s leadership must include trans women, cis women, and non-binary people identifying as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC). An organization’s leadership includes people with significant influence or decision-making power (i.e., the executive director, management staff, advisory committee members, or governing boards). A majority of the organization’s work should focus on issues impacting trans women, cis women, and non-binary people, with a strong emphasis on those who identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC).

Applicants must be tax-exempt as defined by section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or be a project of a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, must have an annual budget of $2 million or less, and must be operating in the U.S. or U.S. territories, with a particular emphasis on state and local movements and campaigns.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Ms. Foundation for Women website.

Deadline: August 25, 2023

Established in 1969, the NEA Foundation is a national nonprofit and philanthropic organization founded by educators to promote the absolute best in public education.

To that end, the NEA Foundation invites applications for its Learning & Leadership grants. Through the program, grants of between $1,500 and $5,000 will be awarded to support the professional development of NEA members. The grant program is intended to provide resources for educators hoping to engage in professional learning that can be implemented in their classrooms.

Grants will be awarded to individuals to participate in high-quality professional development like summer institutes, conferences, seminars, travel abroad programs, or action research; and groups to fund collegial study, including study groups, action research, lesson plan development, or mentoring experiences for faculty or staff. For individuals, grant funds may be used for travel, room, meals, registration fees, materials, etc. For groups, grant funds may be used for educator stipends, substitute fees, materials, travel, meals, etc.

Eligible applicants must be current NEA members and teachers, education support professionals, or specialized instructional support personnel. The foundation defines education support professionals (ESPs) as paraeducators; school bus drivers or other transportation staff; custodial and maintenance or food services staff, school nurses, health aides, and other health and student services staff; clerical staff; security staff; skilled trades staff; and technical services staff. Specialized instructional support personnel (SISP) include school counselors, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, library media specialists, speech pathologists, and others.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the NEA Foundation website.

Deadline: September 15, 2023

The William T. Grant Foundation invites applications for its Institutional Challenge Grant, which supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.

The grant requires that research institutions shift their policies and practices to value collaborative research. Institutions will also need to build the capacity of researchers to produce relevant work and the capacity of agency and nonprofit partners to use research.

Applications are welcomed from partnerships in youth-serving areas such as education, justice, prevention of child abuse and neglect, foster care, mental health, immigration, and workforce development. Proposals from teams with African American, Latinx, Native American, and Asian American members in leadership roles are especially encouraged. The partnership leadership team includes the principal investigator from the research institution and the lead from the public agency or nonprofit organization.

The foundation’s Institutional Challenge Grant asks grantees to pursue four goals: grow an existing institutional partnership with a public agency or nonprofit organization, pursue a joint research agenda to reduce inequality in youth outcomes, create institutional change to value research-practice partnerships within research institutions, and enhance the capacity of both partners to collaborate on producing and using research evidence.

The award will provide $650,000 over three years, which includes: up to $60,000 for up to nine months of joint planning activities (e.g., refining protocols for partnering, selecting fellows, finalizing partnership and data sharing agreements, etc.); and funding for two years of a full-time equivalent fellowship. In addition, universities are required to fund one additional year of a full-time equivalent fellowship, up to three years of support for the partnership to conduct and use research to reduce inequality in youth outcomes, resources to advance the proposed institutional shifts and capacities of both partners; and indirect cost allowance of up to 15 percent of total direct costs.

To be eligible, research institutions must be from tax-exempt organizations, including university-based research institutes, schools, or centers. Institutions outside the academy, such as research organizations and think tanks, are not eligible. Proposals are encouraged from organizations that are under-represented among grantee institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), Alaska Native-serving Institutions, Native Hawaiian-serving Institutions, Asian American Native American Pacific Islander-serving Institutions (AANAPISIs).

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the William T. Grant Foundation website.

Deadline: September 13, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. ET

The foundation invites applications for its Innovative Project Support program. Through the program, grants typically between $25,000 and $125,000 per year for up to three years will be awarded to support projects serving vulnerable and underserved older adults in Philadelphia County.

Innovative project support develops, extends, tests, and evaluates approaches to what sometimes seem to be intractable challenges, and innovative initiatives should be more effective than, and should ultimately displace, prevailing approaches. Examples include but are not limited to projects intended to discover new and better ways of solving pervasive problems that impact older adults, seemingly small interventions that that when scaled, can have a significant impact on addressing a big problem, and organizations and projects led by entrepreneurial leadership teams who are skilled at testing new ideas.

Eligible organizations include 501(c)(3) public charities, fiscally sponsored organizations or programs, supporting organizations, and other 501(c) organizations (within legal limits).

Application deadline: September 1, 2023

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Dates and Times: August 30, September 13 and 27, 2023, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET

Code: AC251VC

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Date and Time: August 8, 2023, 3:00–4:00 PM

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Dates and Times: August 7, 21, and September 11, 2023, 3–5 p.m. ET

Code: AC251VC

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Looking for new ways to get your students excited about science, technology, engineering, and math? Enhance your existing K-12 curriculum with FREE, fun, and standards-compliant grab-and-go aviation-themed activities designed to cultivate students’ passion for careers in flight and STEM.

Developed by EAA to encourage curiosity and invite youth to explore pathways to careers in aviation, you can create a new spark for your students by using the fascination of flight as a framework and a source of inspiration.

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Eligibility: Students grades 6–12

Before being matched with a pilot, students will have to successfully:

• Watch a video about STEM Flights.
• Read FAQs for students.
• Review available STEM missions, and select the one they are most interested in.
• Ask a trusted adult for a letter of recommendation.
• Apply online.

Find out more and apply for STEM Flights.

Our instructors were leaders in food culture work, mostly women of color embedded at the front lines of these issues. We partnered with three local community agriculture sites — Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden, Iglesias Gardens, and Norris Square Neighborhood Project — where we spent mornings working with the land, sharing stories of resistance and regeneration, and taking part in culturally relevant meals prepared by these same teachers: Lex Wiley and Chef Laquanda Dobson at Sankofa; Cesar Viveros and Erendira Solano at Iglesias; and Cesali Morales and Iris Brown at Norris Square.

The principal objective of this course — which will run again this September — is to bring students into immediate contact with food security projects through close, hand-to-hand work alongside expert practitioners. Through the virtual sessions, they are encouraged to make connections to global conditions and to structural parallels. And through the open learning platform, where they can access readings, reflection questions, and discussion prompts, students cultivate intellectual curiosity and an analytical framework.

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Join guest speakers Monica Wiley, Voter Engagement Specialist, National Disability Rights Network (NDRN), and Julio C. Rivera, National Deputy Director of Engagement, NALEO Education Fund, for a crash course in everything needed to construct a best-in-class registration drive that makes potential voters of every stripe feel seen and welcome.

Date and Time: August 1, 2023, 2:00 PM

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The 9/11/01 attacks generated a renewed sense of patriotism and commitment to protecting our democracy. (In fact, 9/11/01 was a primary election day in New York City!) 4 million people turn 18 each year and become eligible to vote. In many states, you can pre-register if you will be 18 by the next election. 9/11 Day of Service is a perfect time to pre-register or register new, young voters or to organize civic education activities. Register to vote or check your registration status here.

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Sign onto the coalition and commit to supporting efforts to recruit and retain one million teachers of color and 30,000 leaders of color for our nation’s schools by the end of the decade— enough for the workforce to reflect the demographics of the students it serves.

Demonstrate ongoing support of the campaign by staying involved and speaking up on the issue.

Invite others to join us! Identify 3 other individuals or organizations who believe that educator diversity in our schools matter. Send them this invitation today. Your referrals are valued and will be celebrated as we grow. We will be stronger together.

Participants in the Fellowship Program usually hold full-time positions in diverse organizations at the local, state and national levels.

The Pennsylvania Education Policy Fellowship Program has been available since 1999 through The Education Policy and Leadership Center (EPLC).

For the 2023-2024 Program, Fellows will have the opportunity to work with a diverse and talented cohort of peers from across Pennsylvania, while interacting with session leaders and guests who represent a broad scope of experience and perspective — both statewide and nationally. Those who are interested will have the opportunity to earn Act 45/48 credit.

Learn more about the program.

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This event will occur on Friday, October 6th, 2023.

Attendees will learn about some of the most effective ways to Ask Every Student, focusing on meeting students where they are at and integrating democratic engagement into the classroom, with the chance to hear directly from campus leaders who have successfully implemented these programs.

Date and Time: Wednesday, August 30, 2023, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

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Civic Holidays are nonpartisan days of action that strengthen and celebrate our country’s democracy! They bring together a wide range of organizations and communities in pursuit of an America where everyone participates and votes.

Interested in learning more and getting involved? We are looking for partners of all stripes to participate in the Civic Holidays this year in a range of ways: posting on social media, holding nonpartisan events in your community, encouraging voting early, and more.

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Sign up to be a poll worker today!

The federal Election Assistance Commission also has a great 2023 Guidebook for Recruiting College Poll Workers.

By making this pledge, you promise to vote on Election Day. Studies show that you’re more likely to complete an action if you’ve already made a public commitment to it. That’s why we built this pledge — as a way for you (and your friends and family!) to maintain accountability when it comes to voting. Not only does voting help your community, but pledging to vote helps your school, too.

Pledge today!