Background
High school students from participating schools who have registered to vote will receive a “John Lewis Civic Engagement” Honor Cord from the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation.
Each participating high school will register with the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation to participate in the program.
Voter registration status will be verified using the Secretary of State’s My Voter page mvp.sos.ga.gov by May 15th.
Each high school principal will email their verified number of students to receive the cords to [email protected] by May 16th.
Each high school principal will sign off on the verification.
Once verified, the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation will send the required number of Honor Cords to the high school for distribution.
Participating students will be asked to sign the JLMLF Civic Engagement Pledge, indicating that they are registered to vote and that they intend to be actively engaged in their community and be a consistent voter in future elections.
B.R.I.D.G.E. (Building Resilience, Innovation, and Driving Generational Engagement)
The John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation’s B.R.I.D.G.E. program is focused on supporting and encouraging the next generation of civic leaders by recruiting and training Civic Engagement Ambassadors, leveraging Project-based Learning and state-of-the-art curricula; promoting leadership development, organizing on-site voter registration events, fostering a student-led civic culture using the latest technology and data analytics.
For more information, contact [email protected]
As a nation, if we care for the Beloved Community, we must move our feet, our hands, our hearts, our resources to build and not tear down, to reconcile and not to divide, to love and not to hate.