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  Programs: Raise Your Voice

RYV is a national student civic engagement campaign that encourages student participation in public life by:

  • encouraging student reflection on their place in local communities and campuses;
  • exploring students conceptions of community;
  • investing students in a range of community service activities, public actions and dialogues; and
  • seeding and sustaining the important community-focused work occurring on campuses.

Since 2002, in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, the Raise Your Voice campaign has been a catalyst for campuses to encourage collaboration among campus communities to focus on the role of student leaders in raising awareness and creating social change. The campaign has been an opportunity to listen to student voice and support student civic engagement to address public issues crucial to our democracy. As a national movement, Raise Your Voice sought to increase, celebrate, and deepen student civic engagement on college campuses across the country. Throughout the campaign, students spoke as a collective voice about the importance of promoting student civic engagement. Collectively over the last six years, the Raise Your Voice campaign has sponsored events that galvanized students on 28 campuses and brought over 5,400 students to action in the democratic and community-building process.

Learn more about currently funded programs.