Yesterday I wrote part 1 of my Discovering Young Voters series designed to help those unaccustomed to the youth movement learn more about how Millennials can impact the upcoming election. Often times we bypass the introductory level information assuming everyone knows about these things. Therefore, today I'd like to continue the series for entry level topics to create an understanding of why ...
Hi all - I'm new to Everyday Citizen (EDC) but am a longtime blogger and activist for many causes, but particularly understanding more about young voters and working to increase awareness about their impact on the electorate. Compared to the circle of friends I roll with, I'm a newbie. Many of them have been working to increase turnout among young voters since 2004 or even 2000, and I didn't ...
To avoid eroding the values Millennials so appreciate, and to truly influence the world around them, they must transform their online activism into off-line communities and build an effective movement for change. From church basements to campus meetings to voters' doors, Millennials need to add face-to-face action to their innate sense of community.
This is great for signing a petition to Congress or donating to a cause. But the real challenges in our society – the growing gap between rich and poor, the intransigence of racism and discrimination, the abuses from Iraq to Burma (Myanmar) – won't politely go away with a few clicks of a mouse. Or even a million.
Here’s the deal. As we move through life, each generation becomes smarter, more tech savvy, more worldly and more evolved. It’s just the way life works. But for some reason, we sit and make up names, stories and stereotypes for each generation, because that’s what we do…we analyze and dissect every situation, person and opportunity to the point of being ridiculous.
I am a coach, and as a coach, I give a LOT of bad news…negative feedback to leaders about what they are doing that’s creating a hiccup in their leadership. It’s usually something like “Your communication style is coming across as abrupt” or “You are not keeping up with the times” or “You are judging people for negative behaviors you also portray each time we talk” or “You are playing favorites.”
I also give a LOT of positive feedback. I want my clients to know what I see in them and how they inspire ME. So, today’s post is dedicated to the Gen Y’s I have met, how they have inspired me and the leadership lessons I have learned by being in relationship with them. Read More...
Kelly Lynch, a former Columbia College Chicago film and video major, is paying educational loan lender Sallie Mae $600 a month, about 1 percent of his total student loan debt of $60,000. Though Lynch, 21, never received his degree from Columbia and barely survives with freelance film and video work, he considers himself lucky.
Lynch consolidated his loans through Sallie Mae a few months before the nation’s largest student loan lender suspended its student loan consolidation program in April. The policy shift left many other young borrowers with inflated interest rates.
The root of Democracy 2.0 is found at the level of the individual millennial identifying problems at the local, state and national levels. Once problems are identified, one must engage in conversations, searching for innovative solutions to the problems they have identified. Mobilize.org seeks to empower the individual past the deliberation stage, enabling members of the Millennial Generation to implement their own solutions.
Jesse Joseph Bosley is a community organizer who has developed events like "Iraqi Freedom Day," which he describes as an effort to "support our troops and the positive nature of democratizing Iraq." ...
Each year NCoC's Annual Conference is held in proximity to Constitution Day and designed to bring together civic leaders, educators, CEOs, and representatives from each of the three branches of government to address issues related to our civic health. Over the past three years, NCoC’s conferences have featured Justice Anthony Kennedy, Senator Robert Byrd, Senator Lamar Alexander, David McCullough and other prominent citizens dedicated to enhancing our civic liferead more...
Be a Pollworker - Mobilize the PollsMobilize.org is proud to announce our Mobilize the Polls Program, which aims to recruit 500 poll workers under the age of 30 for the 2008 Presidential Election. This election year, while youth are coming out to the polls in record numbers, they also have the opportunity to contribute to their fellow citizens’ enjoyment of the democratic process by volunteering to be a poll worker. We will be announcing this program publicly in 2 weeks, but I was hoping to sign up 10 – 20 poll workers to help us launch this program.read more...
Democracy 2.0 Entrepreneur Grant Summit - Money in Politics Democracy 2.0, the theory of change that is the foundation of the work that Mobilize.org engages in with members of the Millennial Generation. Our theory of change starts with the individual citizen identifying problems at the local, state and national levels. Once problems are identified, citizens must engage in conversations searching for innovative solutions to the problems they have identified. read more...
Jesse Joseph Bosley is a community organizer who has developed events like "Iraqi Freedom Day," which he describes as an effort to "support our troops and the positive nature of democratizing Iraq." ...
