Projects > The New Voter's Project

The New Voters Project is an historic non-partisan effort to mobilize 18-to-24-year old voters in six states – Oregon, Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico, Nevada, and Wisconsin – a combined population of 2 million young adults who are eligible to vote.

This effort is sponsored by the Center for Public Interest Research (CFPIR), in coordination with the State Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM), and Campus Compact, with support from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Together, these groups are conducting a Get Out The Vote (GOTV) drive that will increase youth voter turnout by five percentage points in each of the selected states.

NVP in Oregon aims to register 39,000 18-to-24-year voters in Oregon through voter registration efforts targeted specifically at young people. "This is an incredibly sophisticated and ambitious grassroots mobilization campaign for young voters,” said Bill Bradbury, Oregon’s Secretary of State. “I'm very excited to be working with the New Voters Project to increase young peoples' participation in democracy. It is so important to bring young people back into the political process, because we all share this world and young people can be our political leaders both today and tomorrow.”

Campus Compact has worked for almost two decades on behalf of student civic engagement. This work will build upon the infrastructure of Campus Compact as an organization of college and university presidents, and will utilize the student leadership that has been developed as part of Campus Compact’s Raise Your Voice campaign and Youth Vote Initiative - 2000. Recognizing and bringing focus to the role that students play in the American electoral process is essential to a thriving democracy.