Opportunities
Nonprofit Advocacy Project and Foundation Advocacy Initiative
Founded in 1979, the Alliance for Justice is an association of 65 civil rights, women's, consumer, legal, environmental, and public interest organizations. Its core program areas include: the Judicial Selection Project, the Nonprofit Advocacy Project and the Foundation Advocacy Initiative. Under the auspices of this grant, the Alliance will offer workshops and other technical assistance to help JEHT Foundation staff and its grantees around the legal and regulatory structures that govern nonprofit advocacy.
Voter Turnout Experiments
Project Vote provides professional training, management, evaluation and technical services on civic engagement and voter participation activities in low-income and minority communities. USAction Education Fund provides training, coordination, voter registration, issue-education, get-out-the-vote programs, and voter defense legal support to engage communities in democracy. Clean Water Fund is a research and educational organization that works with community residents and organizations to expand civic engagement through non-partisan voter registration, education, and participation. This grant supports a collaborative effort by the three groups to conduct randomized, controlled field experiments to test and answer some of the most pressing questions about get-out-the-vote strategies arising from the 2004 elections.
The State PIRGs New Voters Project
The New Voters Project, launched in 2004, is a nonpartisan effort to register young people to vote. This grant supports a set of voter registration experiments that tests which approaches most effectively register community college and urban non-residential college students.
Voter Registration Experiments
Women's Voices. Women Vote. seeks to increase the number of unmarried women in the electorate through direct marketing and consumer targeting. This grant supports voter registration tests to determine whether successes the organization had in registering women in 2004 can be replicated and enhanced in 2006.
