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CEO Verneé Green featured in The Hill

Mikva Challenge is pleased to share that CEO Verneé Green was featured in The Hill this week. In her op-ed, Green...

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Mikva Challenge student partners with Rep. Lofgren to establish National Farmworker Awareness Week

 On August 3rd, high school student Melissa Zavala of Salinas, California, joined Rep. Lofgren of California’s 18th district to announce...

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Announcing our 2023 Illinois Benefit: “Democracy is a Verb!”

Mikva Challenge is pleased to announce our 2023 Illinois benefit Democracy is a Verb!  This year’s benefit will take place the...

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Announcing the 2022 DC Benefit: Democracy is a Verb

Mikva Challenge DC is pleased to announce our 2022 benefit Democracy is a Verb!  Thursday, October 27, 2022 5:30 p.m. –...

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DC Students Host a Youth-Led Mayoral Candidates Forum

Article By: Debbie Truong / WAMU/DCist | May 18, 2022 Four candidates for D.C. mayor appealed to the city’s youngest voters...

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Mikva DC is honored to receive $375K to support youth civic engagement & leadership in DC

As a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to uplifting the voices and civic leadership of DC youth, Mikva Challenge DC was honored...

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Mikva Launches Project Soapbox 2021-2022

Every year, teachers around the country use Mikva’s Project Soapbox curriculum to help their students develop and deliver a two-minute persuasive...

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Collective Pause: September 6th -10th

As we go into a new school year – and one with continued unknowns and need for flexibility and creativity –...

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Chicago Sun Times: Chicago youth offer public policy suggestions to city leaders through Mikva Challenge

From Chicago Sun Times By Nichole Shaw  Aug 18, 2021, 8:24pm CDT Chicago youth offer public policy suggestion to city leaders through...

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Teacher & Student Advisory Boards Inform Argumentative Writing Project

Mikva Challenge, with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has launched the Argumentative Writing Project to channel the...

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