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The VOTE HARD campaign

The VOTE HARD campaign, an initiative of the NAACP Youth & College Division and the NAACP
National Voter Fund, seeks to empower voters that are within the youngest part of the electorate.
The idea is simply to encourage people to not only THINK HARD but to VOTE HARD. The
campaign will consist of a three-point empowerment strategy focused on Education Outreach,
Grassroots Outreach and Social Outreach. NAACP youth units will conduct various voter
registration initiatives, education forums and mobilization efforts on college campuses and in
the community.

The argument remains constant, how does an age old institution such as the NAACP continue to
reach out to its constituents. The solution is that no other organization in this country has the
grassroots organizing structure of the NAACP. More importantly, the NAACP Youth and College
Division is the only youth, grassroots organization that reaches over 500 cities and campuses around the country.
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Y&C Division

The NAACP believes strongly that future leaders must be developed today, and such development is ongoing in the Youth & College Division, created in 1936.Today there are more than 30,000 young people representing 600 Youth Councils, High School Chapters and College Chapters actively involved in the fight for civil rights. The NAACP has one of the largest organized groups of young people of any secular organization in the country.

a better deal conference

The NAACP Y&C Division Partnered with Demos on

A Better Deal Conference: Reclaiming Economic Security for a New Generation

The NAACP Youth & College Division was proud to join Demos and other youth organizations from around the country as a partner in “A Better Deal Conference”. As a generation carrying more debt and paying more for everything from health care to housing, it's time to put our generation's economic crisis on the national agenda and build a movement for a better deal.

Visit the www.ABetterDealConference.org website – it’s now updated with all the materials from the conference, including power point presentations, the program, reports, and speaker bios. In addition, see highlights of the conference on C-SPAN.org (our National Director, Stefanie Brown, is featured on the “We’re Broke and We Vote” video).

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U.S. Job Market and Young Adults (Paycheck Politics)205252-2
Economic Security and Youth Issues (Katrina vanden Heuvel)205252-3
Economic Security and Youth Issues (Andy Stern) 205252-1
Economic Agenda for Young Voters (We’re Broke and We Vote)205252-4
Economics and Diversity (Race, Ethnicity & Economic Diversity)205252-6

What We Do:

Y & C Plan of Action (click to download)

Through the generous support of the Ford Foundation and contributions from Global Justice, Inc., the NAACP Youth & College Division has created a nationwide Social Security Empowerment Initiative aimed at increasing African American students' knowledge about Social Security and the proposed changes to how the system currently operates.
The initiative will run from January to March, 2008
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The NAACP, along with a number of organizations, has been working with the lawyers of the Jena 6 daily to arrange for new trials. We're also reviewing additional steps we can take to more fully address the structural racism issues the students may face in the schools.
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The STOP Campaign is an initiative of the NAACP Youth & College Division that seeks to "STOP" the demeaning images of African Americans in the media, particularly with respect to the portrayal of African American women.
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Over the past few years, students of color have reported a dramatic increase in acts of racial discrimination, intolerance, hate crimes and insensitivity amongst different cultures at institutions of higher education.
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