We’ve joined with 9 other progressive 501c3s, including the United States Student Association, Keystone Progress and the Inner City Law Center to sweep Pepsi’s Refresh Everything contest in August.

We’re all in the running for a total of over $500,000 in grants, and all you have to do to get involved is sign up to be a daily voter right here. LYVEF will use our $50,000 piece of the pie to register thousands of new voters and get the word out about the importance of youth participation in the November Elections.

Sign up to be a daily voter right here! It takes 2 minutes.

Our director Biko Baker moderated a panel at this year’s America’s Future Now conference in D.C. last month.

Titled Politics Beyond the Beltway: What Youth Are Talking on the Block, the panel was a provocative and deep discussion of street-level politics in 21st century urban America. Joining Biko were several esteemed youth artists and activists: Tarik Ross, Chloé A. Hilliard, and Elizabeth Méndez Berry. Watch it online.

The first images are coming back from Phoenix, Arizona, where League staff, including our Program Manager Rachel Bishop (pictured at left) and all of our State Apprentices (including Ohio organizer Kwesi Low, to Rachel’s left), are attending a week long bootcamp to prepare them for an exciting summer of Voter Registrations and GOTV mobilizing.

LYVEF is proud to partner with the New Organizing Institute on our ambitious campaign, which will engage new and drop-off voters in seven states across the country.

NOI is unanimously considered one of the top tier progressive training organizations in the nation, and we can’t wait to see the strategies and energy coming back from this bootcamp.

Check all the other images right here!