2025 outreach partnership and collaberation

Voter Engagement & Registration Successfully registered and pre-registered 2,000 voters through targeted efforts beyond the ID program. Door-to-Door Canvassing, deep-dive conversations on issues, and Detroit Change Initiative Annual Report 2025 voting, encouraging early voting. We tested out our QR code banners and social media campaigns for voter registration and education. Community events were key to our voter registration drives at block club parties, city festivals, and community sporting events. Engaging Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) and charter school students aged 18 and above with QR code registration and civic education. Our civics program serves as a pipeline for long-term civic engagement. DCI engages 25 students per session in civic education, advocacy, and community projects (e.g., park beautification, voter registration drives). Our summer civics program was a 6-week intensive program for 350 students, combining leadership workshops with a capstone community project. Weekly themes include Environmental Justice, Civic Tech, and Policy Advocacy. Continuing our Youth Poll Worker Initiative, DCI recruited, trained, and placed 310 youth as poll worker clerks for the 2025 election cycle. This directly addresses election administration needs, provides paid work experience for youth, and offers an unparalleled, hands-on civics education. Our youth are connected with DCI’s broader Civic Economic Education canvassing to understand the link between policy and economic status. We talk about all aspects of "aspirational voting" by providing hard facts about financial status and policy impacts—through door-to-door canvassing and presentations in partnership with block clubs, schools, and parent organizations. Our 2025 approach will continue in 2026 to educate community members on how savings and job security define economic class, empowering them to vote in their own interests.