Faith Vote Columbus is a non-partisan coalition of religious congregations, neighborhood associations, and labor unions committed to:

• Injecting issues of poverty and social justice into state and national elections
  

• Increasing voter turnout in urban precincts. Protecting the right to vote.

• EVENTS

  Check the walk schedule for a list of voter registration walk dates and locations. LEARN MORE

  CONTACT INFO

  1400 King Ave. #27 Columbus OH 43212 Michael Cole: 614-599-5534 mcole@thothonline.com Ari Lipman: 617-852-6405 ari_lipman@gmail.com Fax: 614-487-8676 www.ohio-iaf.org

  Recruiting and training volunteers to engage in neighbor-to-neighbor non-partisan voter education campaigns.
  

• Maximizing the political power of disenfranchised communities.

Faith Vote Columbus is an affiliate of the national Industrial Areas Foundation, an organization founded in 1940 that has
supported the national living wage movement, universal health care and protecting the right to vote.

Faith Vote 2008 Goals:

1. Recruit 500 volunteers to participate in neighborhood canvases for five months leading up to the November 2008 elections.
   
   
2. Increase voter turnout by 12,500 in lowperforming wards and precincts in Linden, the Near East Side, the South Side, Hilltop, Weinland Park, Berwyn East, and East Columbus.
   
   
3. Hold candidates who are running for state and national office accountable to a locally-generated platform on issues of poverty and social justice.

The Ohio International Areas Foundation website stated, "We believe that people in poor communities and disenfranchised neighborhoods have just as great a capacity and appetite for civic participation and voting as do their more affluent counterparts if… if elections are made meaningful by candidates who address their primary self-interests, and if they are invited into a process that values their time, intelligence, skill, and interests."

Statewide, Faith Vote activists want to increase Ohio's voter turnout in 2008 by 50,000 and "reframe the debate of the election to include urban, industrial, and poverty issues."

See Related

Voter Registration Walks and Events

Website of the Ohio Industrial Areas Foundation - Local chapters listed below.

Faith Vote Columbus

Dayton Votes

Reclaim Lorain

Faith Vote Columbus Brochure (PDF)

About Voter Registration

ABout Absent / Early Voting

Archived Articles

Faith Vote Columbus invites union members to participate in voter registration walks (May 21, 2008)