About Us

The League of Young Voters Education Fund (LYVEF) empowers young people nationwide to participate in the democratic process – with a focus on non-college youth and youth from low-income communities and communities of color. LYVEF makes civic engagement relevant by meeting young people where they are, working on issues that affect their lives, and providing them with tools, training, and support to become viable players in the civic process. Founded in 2003, LYVEF has become one of the strongest nonpartisan youth civic engagement organizations in the country.

Our integrated youth civic engagement model combines best practices from community, campus and cultural organizing with sophisticated voter engagement techniques. During election cycles, we run targeted data-driven, precinct-based voter contact and turnout programs. The rest of the year we organize our constituents around issues that make sense to young people. By focusing on relevant local issues like juvenile justice, green jobs, access to education and healthcare and organizing around climate change, we are engaging and mobilizing new and drop-off voters who would otherwise not be active in off election years.

Building on the lessons we learned from 2003-2008, The League of Young Voters Education Fund enters 2009 positioned to mobilize our core constituencies (young people of color, non-college youth and low- income youth) like never before in our history. Our 2009 field program will consist of Get-out-the-vote (GOTV) programs, issue campaigns, lobbying, online organizing and leadership development. The League of Young Voters Education Fund will be running field campaigns in the following eight states: Maine, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota and California.

League of Young Voters
310 Atlantic Ave., 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel: 347-464-8683
Fax: 718-522-4840
contactus@youngvoter.org