Our Partners

The RQP Voter Engagement Strategy for Election Day and Beyond is being implemented through state-administered non-profit adult literacy and adult education programs in these ten states: Arizona, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.

The RQP Strategy is not a separate program that requires additional staff or funding. Instead, it offers simple but powerful educational tools and methods that are designed to be integrated into the on-going work being done, day in and day out, in low-income communities around the country.

We work with a wide range of partners, including:

• Adult education programs that serve low-income adults who never made it through high school and are now trying to improve their literacy skills or get a high school equivalency degree (GED). There are nearly three million low-income adults enrolled in such programs all across the country.
• Social service and public agencies that want to build the skills of the people with whom they work to be both more self-sufficient and more effective citizens.
• Non-profit and community organizations that want to invest in all the people in their communities, not just a narrow cadre of leaders.

Our partners know that far too many people are not participating in decisions in their ordinary encounters with public agencies and they are not participating in decisions on any other level of our democracy. They understand there’s a connection between the two.

Partners also often tell us that the RQP Strategy is “just what we need, a nonpartisan educational strategy that can help people advocate for themselves and take the first steps of democratic action.”

Adult educators trained by RQP this year report that the RQP Strategy offers “a unique way to influence my students to vote,”and can “help students ask questions and make decisions,” relevant to their lives. Teachers in many states have described the RQP training as “one of the best trainings” they’ve ever had. A teacher in Pennsylvania wrote:

“I was expecting [before the training] a difficult project, but I am pleasantly surprised to learn how simple and ‘teacher-friendly’ it all is.”

There are different ways to partner with The Right Question Project. Find out more about how to work with The Right Question Project.

Funding for the Voter Engagement Strategy for Election Day and Beyond

RQP is currently receiving support for its voter engagement work from individual donors and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Carnegie Corporation, Yale University’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies, The Whitman Institute, and the Jane B. Cook 1992 Charitable Trust (for work in New Hampshire).