Title: Make Volunteerism Viral
Project Managers: Sandi Matthews, Keith Morris, Amber Smith
Affiliation: Activate Good
State: North Carolina
Description:
Less than 1 in 4 citizens in Raleigh volunteer. We want to help transform Raleigh, NC, into an engaged volunteer network using our (...)
Title: Know Your Vote
Project Managers: Shadille Estepan, Mari Cruz Saravia
Affiliation: Miami Dade College West Campus
State: Florida
Description:
Take a ride through the virtual world of Miami Dade County. Know Your Vote is a project that will promote civic engagement within our community (...)
Title: SAY: Service and Youth
Project Managers: Yannel Celestrin, Helen Roldan
Affiation: Miami Dade College North Campus
State: Florida
Description:
Our idea is to implement service learning and social sciences throughout primary and secondary education. We believe that by combining (...)
Title: The Artist Spring: When Art Sparks a Revolution
Project Managers: Hannah Hasan, Shaheid Hasan
Affiliation: The Artist Spring
State: North Carolina
Description:
The best way to engage millennials and get them excited about voting and civic engagement is merge those efforts with the (...)
Title: the co.space
Project Mangers: Spud Marshall, Angelina Thomas
Description:
The co.space is a program where university students and experienced change-makers live together for two years. The purpose of the project is to grow and nurture future world-changers. Through the program, (...)
The Mobilize.org MCE Blogger Program was created to connect Millennials in key Mobilize.org communities to talk about the upcoming elections and highlight the work that is being championed for and by the Millennial Generation long after the voting booths close in November of 2012. MCE Bloggers will (...)
Millennial Civic Engagement Summit
Commitments to Action
Ivana, Lift Communities
I commit to never becoming detached from grassroots level action/movement.
Masac Porlouis, Common Cause NC
I commit to supporting my fellow MCE Summit peers in their endeavors so long as (...)
At the very first Mobilize.org Millennial Civic Engagement (MCE) Summit, we utilized our interactive + innovative keypad voting system to discuss the issues that are facing Millennials in the key states of California, North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida in this critical election (...)
PRESS RELEASE
August 28, 2012
CONTACT
Amber Goodwin, 512.820.8613, Goodwin@Mobilize.org
Five Student Ideas for Increasing Millennial Civic Engagement Win Funding at Charlotte Summit
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, Representative Bakari Sellers and other leaders in (...)
There’s only one word to describe the energy in the room during the project presentations at the MCE Summit this weekend: Electric.
Presenters made impassioned pitches for their ideas, eliciting enthusiastic applause, laughter, shouts of encouragement and, in some cases, tears, from the (...)