Generation Vote sparks an intersectional, youth-led movement that fights for our right to vote and a just democracy for all.

MISSION

The Generation Vote Education Fund supports our movement’s work to educate the public about electoral justice issues and youth voting rights, provide robust educational training programs and leadership-development support to our chapters, spearhead national nonpartisan youth election protection and efforts to count every vote, and build partnerships with organizations to address our generation’s democratic crisis.

Generation Vote Education Fund supports our skills trainings and fellowship programs, events focused on youth civic engagement and democracy, and educational workshops.


WHO WE ARE


GenVoters are sparking a national intersectional youth-led movement that fights for our right to vote and a just democracy for all. We are a cross-class, multiracial movement of young people reclaiming our democracy and making electoral justice a major priority for our generation.

2023 JDA fellowship

MASS TRAINING AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Training the next generation of pro-democracy leaders

Since 2018, GenVote trainers have trained and supported hundreds of GenVoters and allies with our unique training modules. Through our 15+ training modules and coaching models, GenVoters receive the tools that they need to talk about our generation’s democratic crisis and develop electoral justice initiatives at the local, state and national level. In 2023, we launched a new online training resource library and weekly orientation calls to welcome new GenVoters. As of 2024, GenVote is the only national electoral justice organization in the youth voting ecosystem that provides such a robust educational mass training infrastructure.

The JDA Organizing Fellowship program is an intensive and high-demand opportunity to join a national youth-led cohort, dedicated to learning about electoral justice, understanding the impact of youth voter suppression, and reimagining a just democracy for all. Throughout the program, Fellows receive support from experienced organizers to develop their leadership skills, strategize electoral justice campaigns, and recruit young people to spark GenVote Teams/Hubs that will support young people advocating for a just democracy for all in their communities.



NONPARTISAN ELECTION PROTECTION

Protecting the Youth Vote in Critical Elections

GenVote Defenders is the only nonpartisan national youth-led leadership program mobilizing Gen-Z to recruit hundreds of young people to become election protection volunteers, help voters exercise their right to vote, and mobilize young people to defend against potential attempts of election subversion in local communities across the country. Defenders undergo a 12-week, cohort style program with access to GenVote’s training modules, election protection resources, special briefings with election defense experts, and coaching. In 2024, we ran GenVote Defenders alongside our state partners in NY, FL, MI, AZ, and TX.

GenVote trained and supported 18 Defenders who recruited 90 Youth Election Protection Volunteers across key cities and engaged 16,684+ young people through outreach efforts like tabling, flyering, and digital campaigns. Over 3.5 weeks, 283 young people received 22+ hours of election protection training through 16 sessions led by the GenVote national team.




GenVote Education EJ Summit

YOUTH ELECTORAL JUSTICE SUMMITS

In 2024, GenVote convened the first youth-led (invite-only) Electoral Justice Summit. From June 21-24, 85 Gen-Z and millennial leaders (including GenVoters) from over 35 state and national youth organizations convened in Phoenix, AZ to reflect on the state of the youth and democracy movements, understand structural challenges facing our democracy including election subversion and voter suppression, and lay the foundation for a generational vision for a just democracy for all.

Spearheading a new vision for our democracy and youth voting rights GenVote will spearhead the 1st cross-movement, youth-led "Just Democracy for All" (JDA) framework to reimagine how future generations come of age in our democracy and expand the franchise for generations to come. This new electoral justice framework will lay the foundation for our advocacy at the national and local level, and unite our movements with a shared, bold vision of a just democracy for all.




ISSUE EDUCATION

Generation Vote has become a national leader in several state and national coalitions. With support from our national team and movement training, Genvoters are shaping youth voting rights platforms and leading electoral justice campaigns across the country. In New York, GenVote has pioneered youth-led voting rights initiatives, from securing early voting and pre-registration to establishing polling sites on college campuses and introducing the strongest Student Voter Empowerment Act.




Generation Vote hosts historic inaugural
Youth Electoral Justice Summit

(Phoenix, Arizona): June 2024


GenVote EJ summit

We are so proud to share that Generation Vote hosted the first youth-led Electoral Justice Summit in the United States (and our first-ever national convening!). From June 21-24, 2024, we invited and brought together 85 young leaders - including our own GenVoters - and democracy experts from across the country to Phoenix, Arizona for the inaugural “Our Generation’s Electoral Justice Summit.” Over the span of four days, we digested the latest threats to our democracy & youth voting rights, strategized new youth-led electoral justice demands and prepared for the biggest democracy fight of our generation’s lifetime in the lead-up to 2025 and beyond.

The inaugural Our Generation’s Electoral Justice Summit was years in the making and is the spark for a generational project that can unite the youth movement in our fight for electoral justice and a truly just and multiracial democracy in the United States. Two years ago, Generation Vote relaunched as a national youth-led electoral justice organization and embarked on a new journey to build a movement of young leaders fighting for our right to vote and a just democracy for all. Our team spent years traveling the country to hear from hundreds of young people and democracy advocates, and we often heard the same thing: In order to make progress on any of the issues our generation cares about, there was an urgent need to create a youth-centered space to address the latest threats to our democracy and lay the foundation for our generation’s vision for electoral justice.

Like a phoenix, Generation Vote rose to the challenge and assembled an incredible squad of partners to convene the first youth-led space to reflect on the state of the youth and democracy movements: Arizona Native Vote, Declaration for American Democracy Coalition, March for Our Lives, Young Feminist Party, SEIU, Next Gen America, Campus Vote Project, NAACP Youth and College Division, Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights, Black Voters Matter, Momentum Community and Common Cause. Following the successful Our Generation’s Electoral Justice Summit, GenVote will invite the participants of the inaugural convening to continue the momentum and spark a new youth-led Electoral Justice Alliance.

We are proud to share the following results from the Summit:

  • 85 young leaders attended the Summit (90% of attendees were Gen-Z and millennials, 60% identifying as BIPOC)
  • 35 national and state-based organizations representing a wide berth of issues from democracy, gun violence prevention, immigration, student debt forgiveness, racial justice, gender justice, climate and tribal civic engagement and sovereignty.
  • 19 sessions of programming
  • Participants came from 14+ states, Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe, and the Pechanga Band of Indians.
  • Conducted 20 testimonial documentary-style videos for the Youth to Power video series: A documentary series for the Youth Movement
The Youth Electoral Justice Alliance will be a cross-movement, national community of organizations across the democracy, youth, social justice movements to raise the stakes of our generation’s democratic crisis and popularize “electoral justice” through legislative advocacy, public education and narrative change.