About us

Who We Are

Vote! Dayton is a coalition of faith communities, neighborhood associations, labor unions and other community organizations committed to:

1. Injecting issues of poverty and social justice into state and national elections
2. Increasing voter turnout in urban precincts with histories of low voter participation
3. Recruiting and training volunteers to engage in neighbor-to-neighbor non-partisan voter education campaigns on an on-going basis
4. Maximizing the political power of disenfranchised communities
5. Protecting the right to vote

WYSO reported on our June 12th Neighborhood Walk
Hear Rev. John Wagner talk about his faith and work with Vote Dayton.

WYSO reported on our April 19th Neighborhood Walk
Hear what we do. Listen to the report.

Vote! Dayton is a chapter of the Ohio Industrial Areas Foundation as well as an affiliate of the national Industrial Areas Foundation.

• The Industrial Areas Foundation was founded in 1940 by Saul Alinksy, considered by many to be the patriarch of modern community organizing.
• IAF accomplishments include the founding of the national living wage movement in Baltimore, MD; the construction of over 3000 affordable Nehemiah Homes in Brooklyn, NY; the creation of Alliance Schools throughout Texas; and the adoption of universal health care in Massachusetts.
• In the process of experimenting with ways to transform citizen leadership into real political power, the IAF has become a leading innovator in non-partisan voter mobilization.