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: on-campus registration and turnout drives, relational registration and turnout programs, 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 18,000 youth organizers, 34,000+ young volunteers, hundreds of partner organizations, and thousands of individual donors from every corner of the country. Since 2019, we’ve helped to register 645,000 young voters, texted 45 million young voters, talked to 1,200,000 young voters on the phone, and reached 140 million impressions of our ads that make it easy to register and vote. We’ve graduated 18,000+ young people from our internship program who contributed 164,000 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 10 million voters under 30 in our targeted areas 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.
Most young people are not registered to vote but more than 70% of young people who do register to vote go on to vote consistently. 4 million young people turn 18 in 2026, however, only 30% of current 18-year-olds are registered to vote. Therefore, registering these new voters 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 a plan to register 190,00 new young voters in key states and districts in 2026 and then mobilize those young voters and five million more to turn out in November of 2026. Our goals include scaling our on-campus and relational registration programs to 2,726 high schools and 291 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.
