New Era Colorado Foundation

A nonprofit organization

$13,078 raised by 78 donors

100% complete

$10,000 Goal

This year, Colorado’s young voters showed up at the polls, at the Capitol, and for their communities. We passed bold policy at the legislature around abortion protections and student debt reform, released our full Youth Agenda policy platform, and engaged thousands of young people through our multi issue organizing. Youth turnout was at record levels this midterms - second highest youth turnout in the last 30 years (right behind historical 2018 turnout). 

In Colorado, young people turned out at 39 percent—that’s 12 points higher than the national average—and made up 20 percent of the vote share. 

New Era’s base turned out at 60 percent, 21 points higher than 18-34 year olds statewide.

Thanks to our organizing efforts and expansions in election access, young people continue to be a powerful force at the Capitol, in their communities, and at the polls with historic turnout in the last four elections. 

Mission

New Era Colorado Foundation organizes young people to participate in the political process, develop as leaders, and find a political home.

Background Statement

New Era Colorado Foundation organizes young people to participate in the political process, develop as leaders, and find a political home. We create opportunities for young people to make change by working at the top-down (policy change) and bottom-up (organizing) levels to build toward the Youth Agenda, ultimately creating the world we want to live in.

Since our founding in 2006, we’ve registered more than 250,000 young people to vote, consistently turning out those same registrants at one of the highest rates in the country. We’ve won critical protections for student loan borrowers, played a key role in ballot measure campaigns to protect abortion rights and climate, enacted voter preregistration for 16- and 17-year-olds, advocated for key improvements to our voting systems, and more. The combination of these policy improvements and our ability to meet young people where they're at has had a measurable and long term impact on youth voter engagement in Colorado.

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Organization Data

Summary

Organization name

New Era Colorado Foundation

other names

NECF

Year Established

2007

Tax id (EIN)

26-1389272

Category

Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy

Organization Size

Medium Organization

Address

907 Acoma
Denver, CO 80204

Mailing

PO Box 181153
Denver, CO 80218

Service areas

Denver County, CO, US

Phone

720-565-9317

Other

325-428-9018