Partners

TerpsVote Coalition is a campus partner working to bring students, staff, and faculty together to promote civic engagement at UMD.

The Office of Leadership & Community Service-Learning (LCSL) at the University of Maryland engages students in experiential and community-based learning to foster socially responsible leadership.

The UMD Fellows program prepares talented, diverse undergraduate students to excel in professional internships and pursue careers of positive impact and influence. The Maryland Fellows branch focuses on the state and local levels; the Federal Fellows branch focuses on the national public service sector. The UMD Fellows Program also partners with MDI on the Laufer Democracy Internship Program.

The University of Maryland Libraries are a democratizing force, providing an equitable and inclusive environment for using and creating knowledge. The Libraries foster lifelong learning in our community. A signature program of the University Libraries is the Living Democracy Initiative, advancing democratic values, civic education and engagement in society.

The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge empowers colleges and universities to achieve excellence in nonpartisan student democratic engagement.

The Big Ten Collaboration on Democracy in the 21st Century was formed by Maryland Democracy Initiative partners in partnership with the Big Ten public policy school network. MDI partners co-direct the Collaboration which connects student learning and debate on key issues facing our democracy with civic action.

Generation Citizen offers tools that empower the rising generation to build civic skills and make America the inclusive multi-racial democracy we need.

The Maryland Civic Education Coalition, which MDI partners helped to establish, is a growing network of scholars, teachers, students and community activists providing a national model for promoting civic and service learning.

SLSV is a national organization and the largest nonpartisan network in the United States dedicated to increasing college student voter participation.

Maryland Democracy Initiative partners established and helped to lead the Vote16 Research Network, a national network of community scholars, academics and students engaged in the work of understanding and addressing challenges to more civic participation by youth under age 18.