Vielmetter Los Angeles continues our year-long donation pledge supporting effective change to dismantle police brutality, white supremacy, racism, and injustice. This month we are donating $1,000 to The New Georgia Project.
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The New Georgia Project is a nonpartisan effort to register and civically engage Georgians.
Georgia’s population is growing and becoming increasingly diverse. Over the past decade, the population of Georgia increased 18%. The New American Majority – people of color, those 18 to 29 years of age, and unmarried women – is a significant part of that growth. The New American Majority makes up 62% of the voting age population in Georgia, but they are only 53% of registered voters.
• NGP’s goal is to register all eligible, unregistered citizens of color in Georgia by the end of the decade.
• Our research shows that citizens of color register through voter registration drives at twice the rate of whites.
• As of September 2019, NGP has registered almost half a million Georgians, in all 159 Georgia's counties.
We meet new voters where they are – in churches, on college campuses, and in their neighborhoods – to share information about how to register and how to vote. We are turning new registrants into informed and engaged voters, many for the first time ever.
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We will announce the next organization we are supporting on December 15th.⠀
The New Georgia Project: https://newgeorgiaproject.org/about/
Previous Donations:
June 15, 2020: Black Trans Advocacy Coalition
July 15, 2020: Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
August 15, 2020: National Police Accountability Project
September 15, 2020: Critical Resistance
October 15, 2020: Fair Vote
We would also like to thank everyone who has made contributions in support of Paul Mpagi Sepuya's Solidarity Print. As of July 25, 2020 more than $214,688 has been donated directly to organizations the artist selected to support.
Please also check out Edgar Arceneaux's BLM Defund Convening with Patrisse Cullors