GoVoteNYC grantees launch week of events to engage underrepresented voters

NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS—In honor of National Voter Registration Day this year, GoVoteNYC grantees organized a week of civic engagement events across the city, aimed at mobilizing underrepresented voters.

The New York-based donor collaboration awards millions of dollars in grants to nonprofits across the five boroughs to aid their grassroots efforts. 

“We have 8 million people [in NYC], and a lot of them are eligible to vote, and a lot of them need help.” said Eve Stotland, Senior Program Officer at The New York Community Trust, one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the U.S. “We hope that we’re getting at a lot of different voting populations and that we’re funding groups that are trusted messengers in their community, and that know how to get their message across in a persuasive way to people who are often left out of the political process — always in a nonpartisan way.”

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