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Make Your End-of-the-Year Charitable Donation Here

December 9th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in League News

There’s a lot of reasons people give generously every year, but in some cases one of the benefits of supporting a worthwhile cause is the ability to take a federal income tax deduction.

Contribue to our sister organization, the PA League of Young Voters Education Fund, and receive a 2008 receipt for a charitable donation. It’s easy — you can do it online!

Click here to make a tax-deductible contribution today

or feel free to mail a donation by check to:
PA League of Young Voters EF
Attn: Development
6101 Penn Avenue Suite 302
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

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Training future organizers

October 25th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in From the Field, League News, Something said

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Registering Voters makes the News!

September 30th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in From the Field, PA League in the News, Photos, Volunteers Opportunities

We got a spot in the Post-Gazette for our jail registration work in conjunction with Just Harvest; Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN; the Community Voters Project; Work for Progress; and Duquesne University nursing and political science students last week!

“Spearheaded by inmate program director Jack Pishke, it was the largest registration effort to date at the jail and the only one jail officials knew of statewide, in anticipation of the last registration day: Oct. 6.

In a dizzying two hours, the group helped to complete 456 new registrations and about 700 absentee ballot applications.

Unlike most of the younger volunteers, Ms. Rabinowitz, 67, of Park Place, had been in jail before. She was locked up with a group of organizers for two separate stretches in 1963, after the group was arrested for registering rural black voters in the south with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Those voters, she said, were scared because “they’d never had the right to vote before and we couldn’t tell them it wasn’t dangerous.”

The jail inmates today were just eager. And hopeful.”

Read the full article

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When it’s more than just the work

August 27th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in From the Field
Roxanne Banks-Williams, Director of Education & Training

Roxanne Banks-Williams, Director of Education & Training

As an organizer for the PA League of Young Voters Education Fund, one of the most rewarding experiences has always been the outreach we do at the jails (like the Allegheny County Jail and the Schuman Juvenile Detention Center). Most often we have found that the inmates or residents are genuinely happy to have us visit them. They are not only happy to see us, but they appreciate the message that we are bringing to them. They are happy to know that we care enough to make sure they know their rights as citizens, and that we are helping to make sure their voices are heard and their votes are counted.

Every once in a while we get a special request. Usually people ask if we are hiring. We are not usually able to help much there. Sometimes we are asked for connections to resources. We are sometimes able to assist with that stuff. Then, sometimes we come across someone who just needs a little love.

This time around we met a young lady named Tracey. She was especially receptive to us when we visited with her and the other ladies in the Second-Chance Parenting program at the Allegheny County Jail. I think she may have felt the friendly vibe and the unconditional love that brings us to this work. She went out on a limb and wrote Carly and I both letters. She basically told her story, and how she appreciated our work, and asked for help…she asked for a friend. She has no family here, and the family she has left has disowned her. She is away from her native home of Philadelphia, and her mom passed away while she was incarcerated here in Pittsburgh. She gets no letters, no visits, has no one to call… More »

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Roxanne holds Rhyme in her hands

August 23rd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Photos

Roxanne is helping hold the mirror for this rhyme challenge. Hot House is still HOT!

Dylan

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We’re here at Hot House!

August 23rd, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in From the Field, Photos

We’re here at Hot House!, originally uploaded by paleague.

The League is present and having a great time at Hot House! This is my first mobile post to the Hotsheet so I hope this works. Here is Mac with Friends of the Riverfront. More to come from Hot House!

Dylan

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You helped the League win $10,000!

April 11th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in League News
Thank you thank you thank you!

The Case Foundation ran a crazy contest on Facebook’s Causes app.  They donated cash to the causes that got the most donors through Facebook over the whole past month.  And we were one of the winners!

Donations went to the League of Young Voters Education Fund, our sister organization and a 501c(3) non-profit organization, so they are tax-deductible.

 

In the last 30 minutes we almost got knocked off the top, but then a groundswell of support came pouring in from League family around the country who grabbed their friends and family and propelled the League to a huge victory.

 

And we won TEN THOUSAND SMACKERS!!!  That’s on top of $11,600 from the donations themselves and $2,000 from winning two one-day challenges.  By now, you math whizzes out there have computed a whopping total of $23,600 from over 600 small donors.  That’s mind-blowing.

 

The League is speechlessly and madly in love everyone who donated and helped get their friends!

http://apps.facebook.com/causes/view_cause/54617

Donations went to the League of Young Voters Education Fund, our sister organization and a 501c(3) non-profit organization, so they are tax-deductible.

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