Find your Polling Place For the last two years, the New Organizing Institute Education Fund, in collaboration with the Voting Information Project, the Pew Center on the States, and Google has worked to put your polling place information at your fingertips. Find your polling place below! To embed the tool, visit the Google Election Center to grab the code. It's as easy as embedding a youtube video. Click here to download the full data set that powers this gadget.

The VIP Polling Place Locator is an application that helps voters find their polling place by simply entering the address at which they are registered. Find out how to install it on your own website here.

Our entire team is hard at work creating and distributing free Get Out The Vote resources to progressive organizers. Here's a menu of the tools, trainings, and knowledge at your disposal: I. GOTV Organizing Materials II. Election and Polling Place Tools III. Online GOTV Classes IV. Election Research I. GOTV Organizing Materials What is GOTV? [ Download the entire packet (PDF) ] GOTV One-pager (.doc) Getting to Know your Turf for GOTV (.doc) Creating an Election Day Timeline (.doc)

In order to continue the growth of the progressive movement, NOI invests in the development of human capital. If you are looking for opportunities, or are an employer who is seeking accomplished junior or senior staff, you should subscribe and post to NOI's FREE job board, a current list of the jobs in the progressive movement posted by NOI and our progressive allies.

The New Organizing Institute's Vote Everywhere initiative will provide accurate polling location information for all 50 states plus DC. For free. For everyone. Polling locations will be standardized and available in numerous forms: via lookup tools such as Google, via political data tools such as VAN and Catalist, or in a simple spreadsheet.

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Locate opportunities to learn more, connect with your peers and take a break Making a commitment to progressive leadership means consistently learning and improving your craft. Below are a list of fellowships, awards and efforts to sustain those who have made a career in the field. Alston/Bannerman Fellowship Program was founded to honor and support longtime activists of color by giving them $25,000 to take sabbaticals of three months or more. American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute is

How to find and land the job of your dreams Even in times when there are plenty of available jobs there exists stiff competition for the best positions. While you embark on a search for what will both help you pay the rent/mortgage and fulfill your desire to create change you will hear and begin to believe the expression that finding a job is a job. It is not a good job - the pay is poor, there is far too little communication with your, fingers-crossed, future employer, you have trouble