About Us
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WHO WE ARE
TurnUp is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and mobile app that comprises the largest youth-led voter registration and turnout initiative. We’re on a mission to strengthen democracy by increasing high-impact youth civic action and closing the gap between young people who want to take civic action and those who take action.
TurnUp includes four integrated programs to increase youth voter registration and turnout: physical registration and turnout drives, relational registration and turnout drives, grassroots organizing, and digital campaigns. Forbes recognized TurnUp as the #1 standout tech non-profit organization.
We are the largest and fastest-growing coalition of youth turnout advocates, powered by a diverse team of over 13,000 youth organizers, 30,000+ young volunteers, hundreds of partner organizations, and thousands of individual donors from every corner of the country. Since 2019, we’ve helped to register 477,000 young voters, texted 35 million young voters, talked to 900,000 young voters on the phone, and reached 140 million impressions of our ads that make it easy to register and vote. We’ve graduated 13,000+ young people from our internship program who contributed 94,000 volunteer hours registering and mobilizing new young voters.
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TurnUp organized the largest youth-led youth voter registration and turnout operations in the past three cycles as well as in both Georgia runoff elections, according to publicly available data. The young people registered and mobilized by TurnUp have consistently voted in record numbers and made the difference in key elections. There are more than 50 million voters under 30 who are eligible to vote in 2026. These young people will be crucial to the election and TurnUp’s proven programs will register and turn them out to vote.
More than 70% of young voters who are registered to vote have voted in every presidential election since 2000. In 2020, for example, 86% of registered young people voted. However, only 30% of 18-year-olds are registered to vote. 4 million young people turn 18 in 2025, so registering them will be key to the 2026 and 2028 elections. Our goal is to register and turnout as many young people as possible utilizing our effective strategies.
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We have an ambitious plan to register 170,000 new young voters in 2025. Our goals include scaling our physical and relational registration programs to 2,801 high schools and 296 target community colleges, as well as growing our internship and digital programs.
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All of our work is focused on targeting the key states and congressional districts where youth can make the biggest impact: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin, and other competitive congressional districts.
Young people have shown us that with support from TurnUp's programs, they will show up in droves and be the energetic changemakers that our democracy needs.
