Join students, teachers, and volunteers on February 10th to help New Hampshire high school students register to vote before they graduate this spring!

Across the country, The Civics Center consistently finds that when young people are registered to vote, they turn out at high rates. In fact, a 2022 report by The Civics Center showed that 83% of New Hampshire 18-year-olds who were registered turned out to vote in the 2022 midterms. With midterms lurking in the distance and Town Meeting Day even sooner, this training is the perfect opportunity to bring this initiative to your community!

We will discuss why this work is so vital, what is needed to register to vote due to new laws in the state, and what strategies you can employ when holding a drive in your community. We will also have a guest panelists to share their experience and the benefits this has made in their community. Finally, we will be discussing town meeting and why it is important for the youngest voters to participate. You will not want to miss this incredible event. 

Register for this virtual workshop today! Join us on Tuesday, February 10th at 3:30 pm to learn how to encourage and empower students and educators to organize voter registration events for their schools.

As an incentive for teachers, we are happy to offer professional development certificates for joining us! If you know a student or teacher in your community, encourage them to join us.

This workshop is hosted by The Civics Center and Open Democracy New Hampshire, two non-partisan, non-profit organizations that provide voter education and outreach to help high school students register to vote.

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The Hard Work of Hope takes you into the heady days of 1960s and 1970s activism, chronicling the hopes and strategies of the young people who created the movements that rocked the country.

Michael Ansara was on the front lines. In this fascinating memoir, he traces an arc of discovery: from the hope and moral clarity of the Civil Rights Movement to the ten-year struggle to end the war in Vietnam, with its sit-ins, marches, confrontations, and antiwar riots.

Ansara takes the reader into the minds of the activists detailing their successes as well as their mistakes. The Hard Work of Hope shows how he learned to become a more effective organizer and build the Massachusetts Fair Share organization. The book explores issues that remain urgent. How does a movement build support when large parts of the country are opposed to its goals? How do you connect with people who disagree with you? How do you build organizations that unite across racial lines? How can we make progress on the unfinished business of the hard work of hope?

Michael Ansara spent many years as an activist and an organizer, starting with the civil rights movement of the 1960s, going on to be a regional organizer for Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). He spent 10 years organizing opposition to the war in Vietnam. For 15 years, he was a community organizer, including directing Mass Fair Share. He has worked on political campaigns, coordinated voter registration efforts, and trained many organizers. He owned and ran two successful businesses. He is the co-founder of Mass Poetry. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Redress Movement and the organizing team for Volunteer Blue. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, and his essays have appeared in Vox, Arrowsmith, Solstice, and Cognoscenti. Cornell University Press will publish his memoir, The Hard Work of Hope, on July 15th, 2025.

Purchasing information

Available at your local book store (Paperback 23.95): 

Gibson's Bookstore, 45 South Main St., Concord, NH 03301  603-224-0562 Needs to be ordered

Main Street BookEnds of Warner, 16 East Main St., Warner, NH 03278 (603) 456-2700 Needs to be ordered

Toadstool Bookstores, 12 Depot St., Peterborough, NH 03458   (603) 924-3543  Needs to be ordered

Water Street Bookstore, 125 Water Street, Exeter, NH 03833 (603) 778-9731  Needs to be ordered