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Hustle and Soul: Interview With New Georgia Project and New Georgia Project Action Fund CEO and Organizing Director, Kendra Cotton and Billy Honor
"There are hundreds of thousands of people who filled out voter registration forms in the state of Georgia to get registered to vote that would not have done so, presumably, if it had not been for the New Georgia Project."
New Georgia Project Leads Borrowers to D.C. for Student Debt Cancellation Rally Outside Supreme Court
For Immediate Release New Georgia Project contact: [email protected] (Atlanta, GA) – On the eve of the Supreme Court of the United States’ hearing of two cases that will determine the future of President Biden’s student loan debt forgiveness plan, 45 [...]
The Guardian: ‘We’re hitting the soil’: Georgia activists mobilize voters in an off year
According to Blair, New Georgia Project is on track to register 40,000 new voters this year alone. Once they are registered, the group turns to engaging new voters and offering issue-based education to secure turnout for the 2024 presidential election.
Sirius XM: The Lurie Daniel Favors Show: Kendra Cotton
Organizer Kendra Cotton joined Lurie Daniel Favors to discuss New Georgia Project. “Everybody cares about issues...So what we do at NGP is, we take those issues, we figure out what they are—the things that connect to your heart—and then we [...]
WJBF: New Georgia Project aims to make progressive change, push more people to polls
After just a few moments of listening to the Negro National Anthem, Franklin Delano Williams remembered being just a young boy at the March on Washington in 1963. “That speech resonates with me to this day,” he told us. [...]
Washington Post: The county to watch in the Georgia Senate runoff
But turning out those voters takes work, said Billy Honor, the organizing director for the New Georgia Project, the group that decided to focus its get-out-the-vote efforts on Henry County in the home stretch. “If I can use a religious [...]
AP: Nonprofits strain to support voters in Georgia Senate race
“It’s not just, ‘Find new canvassers and recruit new volunteers.’ It’s also, ‘Find new money,’” said Kendra Cotton, CEO of New Georgia Project — founded by Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who lost her second campaign to become the state’s governor [...]
Teen Vogue: Young Georgians Are Getting Out the Vote for the December 6 Senate Runoff
Kierra Stanford, 24, a lead organizer with the New Georgia Project, a nonpartisan organization founded by Stacey Abrams and dedicated to increasing voter registration and turnout, says one of the hurdles to organizing for the runoff is education: Many young [...]
Boston Globe: In a shortened Georgia Senate sprint, candidates court split-ticket voters
“They do not want to expand the electorate,” said Kendra Cotton, chief executive of the New Georgia Project, a nonpartisan organization founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams that has worked to register and mobilize new voters. “They know Georgia is browning [...]
Capital Beat: Counties gearing up for weekend early voting ahead of Senate runoff, polls to be open Sunday in Floyd
Voting rights groups urged county election officials Tuesday to allow weekend early voting in their communities. “Georgians deserve more than five or six days of early voting,” said Stephanie Ali, policy director for the New Georgia Project.
