The purpose of Blue Starr is to Empower, Educate and Mobilize voters across North and South Carolina low income urban and suburban communities. 

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Due to COVID-19, outreach methods like door-to-door canvassing, community meetings/events and Get Out To Vote (GOTV) efforts will be at an all time low. In order to empower our community with larger voter participation for future elections, we will need to educate communities on alternative voting methods, processes and current resources that will in turn mobilize a new type of voter. We at Blue Starr understand this process very well and have develop programs to ensure transparency in elections for our communities.

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“We Care”

With our “We Care” Program we focus on three areas of helping those in need. The main three areas are: Voter registration, food and clothes distribution, and COVID-19 support. Our goal is to build community relationships, increase election awareness, voter participation and most importantly we want to stay involved and engaged within the communities we serve.

 

According to Feeding America's calculations about 19% or nearly 1 in 5 North Carolina residents will experience food insecurity in 2020 due to COVID-19. In order to bring awareness and serve communities in need we designed a program that will focus on building from the ground up.

 

        Build long lasting community relationships:

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• Be a service to the communities we serve. Our goal is to serve 10,000 families with food and clothes by election day and 1 million families nationwide by August of 2021. 

• Build trust in the communities we serve. Blue Starr is committed to registering voters and increasing voter turnout on a full time basis. Our goal is to register 100,000 voters nationwide by election day 2021.

 

        Follow-up is Key:

In order to be effective and engage in the community properly, it is not enough to just register voters and never speak to them again. We are committed to being of service throughout the entire process, which includes absentee voting, polling locations, up to date voting information and a listening ear that helps direct you to any and all public resources available.

 

“Help Thy Neighbor”

"Help thy neighbor" is an educational series that focuses on elected seats and how it affects you!

In early February 2021, Blue Starr will be hosting a 2 week educational video workshop series. The purpose of this series is designed to help bridge the gap on how politics is perceived on a local/national level and how it affects you the voter. 

 

• Over the course of 4 weeks we will run a data gathering digital outreach program and tailor our civics lessons on community specific issues that are important to unregistered, registered and disengaged voters. 

• 2 weeks following completion of phase 1 we will livestream 4 civic lessons on  the issues collected and what elected seats are held responsible for these issues. 

• Follow up for feedback

 

“Empowerment”  Our "Empowerment" program will Teach and Train on how to run for office and best practices (12 week program) Coming Soon!