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Global Youth Service Day Planning tool Kit
“Global Youth Service Day Planning Tool Kit” is a 2004 publication promoting the fourth annual Global Youth Service Day. The booklet includes chapters on how to fund raise and recruit for Global Youth Service Day activities as well as how to increase your image and impact by incorporating public relations into your day. Also, the packets contain evaluation forms for their Global Youth Service Day day.
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Global Youth Service Day 2005
Youth Service America (YSA) is a resource center that partners with thousand of organizations commited to increasing the quality and quantity of volunteer opportunities for young people in America, ages 5-25, to serve locally, nationally, and globally. The piece includes YSA’s mission statement and goals for youth public service and community stewardship. Some examples of proposed community projects are HIV/AIDs awearness campaigns and neighborhood beautification initiatives.
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Your Vote Your Voice
“Your Vote Your Voice” is a 1999 publication by the National Association of Independent Colleges. The Booklet address voter education, coalition building, “get out the vote,” and the time table for the 2000 presidential election. The publication was created in part to provide solutions to the apathy expressed by younger voters towards the electoral process.
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The Youth Vote
This document analyzes trends in youth voting from 1971 onward. The piece purposely picks 1971 as it was the year which the 26th amendment was passed. That amendment moved the age for universal suffrage from 21 to 18 years of age. This 1999 study provides statistical breakdowns of youth voting figures as well as an analysis of what the data suggests. Also included is a chapter on why youth don’t vote; that section also acknowledges that voter turnout has been on the decline since the 1960s.
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Update Your Pinellas County Voter Registration Now
This letter titled “Update your Pinellas County Voter Registration Now!” was sent out in 1990 by Pinellas County, Florida Supervisor of Elections, Charles J Kaniss. In the letter are instructions to Pinellas County citizens on how to update their voter registration and the corresponding form.
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Voter rights and registration resource guide
“Voter Rights and Registration Resource Guide” is document produced in 1990 by the Texas Young Lawyers Association and designed to stimulate the voter turnout of eligible voters in Texas. The document is intended to help educate Texans about the importance of voting as well as the correct ways to exercise this right. Included in the document are important historical dates and brief descriptions of the events in the development of National Voter Rights under the U.S Constitution and a number of case studies on voting rights and the decisions involved. Additionally, after a brief description of the state voter registration, the document provides important information on Texas’s voter registration, voter qualifications, and the women’s suffrage movement.
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Presidential Classroom Invites High School Students to…
“Presidential Classroom invites Students To… Experience a Week in our Nation’s Capital” is a brochure, released on July 10th 1991 by A Presidential Classroom for Young Americans which informs students of the 1992 Presidential Classroom program in Washington D.C. The document states that students will observe government interaction and meet with influential leaders as well as outlining the application process. The program is set to run on several different class dates throughout the year 1992 – a USA Presidential Election year.
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Executive Summary on Findings of National Youth Survey
“The Executive Summary on Findings of National Youth Survey Conducted for 20/20 Vision” is a 1999 report on the overall feelings of youth on several key political issues. The study focused on youth’s views on government, their personal current concerns, the US’ role in the world and their views on environmental protection. The report, based on telephone surveys of 500 young adults 18-29 years of age, concluded that while this demographic has an engaged world view they believe that they can make the biggest impact closer to home.
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Civic Minded Students Help get their parents to polls
“Civic Minded Students Help get their parents to polls” is an article from USA Today published on November 2nd 1992, written by Dennis Kelly, which informs the reader of the Kids Voting Program where children may go to the polls on Election Day 1992 and cast unofficial ballots while their parents cast their votes for the Presidential Election in the USA. The article emphasizes the importance of youth education on civic participation and the electoral system.
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Politics for Generation X
“Politics for Generation X” is an article from the August 1999 edition of the “Atlantic Monthly;” it was written by Ted Halstead. The piece operates around the premise that young adults are the most politically unengaged members of the population and that a new agenda must be formulated to reengage them. Halstead investigates often incongruent value set of Generation X and then seeks to form a political agenda round them. This agenda includes solutions to balancing the budget, helping the little guy and solving global warming.