Your Local, State and Federal Officials
Pennsylvania Voting Information Sites
National Voting Information and Online Registration Sites
Title X Family Planning Issues
Reproductive Rights
Government Officials
Womens' Healthcare
There are many websites with important and helpful information on advocacy activities in women's health, family planning, and reproductive rights. Here are some of the best:
Your Local, State and Federal Officials
Pennsylvania Cable Network
Use the internet link below and follow the simple directions to find your individual State Representative & State Senator.
1. Scroll down to the end of the page.
2. Enter your nine-digit zip code or full address in look-up box and press Go.
3. The page you are brought to will contain your State Representative & Senator.
4. Your elected officials will appear with a web link with all of their contact information.
Pennsylvania Voting Information Sites
The Committee of Seventy
The Committee of Seventy is a non-partisan organization, which seeks to educate citizens, protect voting rights, and increase voter registration in the city of Philadelphia and the surrounding region. This website includes many useful local election resources, such as political maps, polling locations, and information about elected officials.
PA Department of State/VotesPA
VotesPA is The Department of State's online voter information center and is designed to inform voters and election officials throughout the Commonwealth on a wide variety of matters related to elections. This site includes a vast amount of voter registration and Election Day information specific to Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Commission for Women
This website provides information and resources for Pennsylvania women that encourage political and civic involvement. This site also includes on-line voter registration.
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National Voting Information and Online Registration Sites
Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote
The Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote) is a national nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that encourages and promotes civic participation of Asian Pacific Islander Americans in the electoral and public policy processes at the national, state and local levels. On-line voter registration is also available on this site.
Vote 411
Launched by the League of Women Voters Education Fund (LWVEF) in 2006, VOTE411.org offers a variety of election related information. It provides nonpartisan information to the public with both general and state-specific information on the election process, including on-line voter registration.
NAACP
This website is designed to empower African Americans and people of color by increasing awareness and participation in the electoral process.
Rock the Vote
Rock the Vote is dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and empowering young people to change their world. This site contains multiple views on current controversial topics and online voter registration.
Coalition on Black Civic Participation
The Coalition on Black Civic Participation is dedicated to increasing African American participation in civic society. Some of their programs include: Operation Big Vote!, Black Youth Vote!, Black Women's Roundtable, Voices of the Electorate, Information Resource Center and the Unity Civic Engagement and Voter Empowerment Campaign.
National Council of La Raza (NCLR)
NCLR, the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans. Through advocacy activities, the NCLR seeks to strengthen and increase Latino participation in the political process. These two initiatives are the Field Advocacy Project (FAP) and the Latino Empowerment and Advocacy Project (LEAP). This site also contains online voter registration.
Project Vote Smart
Project Vote Smart is a non-profit voter mobilization organization committed to providing non-partisan information to the American public. A legislative look-up database, hot political topics, and intern applications are available through this website.
Vote, Run, Lead
Vote, Run, Lead is a national non-partisan mobilization initiative of The White House Project, a non-profit women's leadership advocacy group. It aims to activate young American women to engage in political participation. This site includes information on voter registration, the importance of voting, and other useful voting/Election Day related facts, resources, and information. This site also features on-line voter registration.
Democracia U.S.A.
Democracia U.S.A, formerly Mi Familia Vota, is a Hispanic civic engagement program that seeks to increase the prominence and participation of Hispanics through empowerment, leadership training, and civic participation. Democracia U.S.A. registers voters, educates them on public issues at stake for their communities, mobilizes them to turn out on Election Day, and conducts non-partisan election protection activities to ensure that their votes are counted.
Women Matter
WomenMatter is a non-partisan organization designed to educate women about political processes and help them to use those processes to better their own lives. This site includes basic information about voting rights. This site also features on-line voter registration.
National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS)
NASS, the nation's oldest professional, non-partisan organization of public officials, offers election resources and information. Some of their initiatives include programs such as, Can I Vote and the New Millennium Young Voters Project.
Women's Voices. Women's Vote.
The goal of Women's Voices. Women’s Vote. is to turn unmarried, uninvolved women into active voters who are influencing debate. This site contains useful facts and information about the importance of voting and offers online voter registration.
Declare Yourself
The goal of the Declare Yourself Youth Voter Initiative is to teach young people, particularly those eligible to vote for the first time, information they need to know about how, where, and when to register to vote, how to find their polling places, and tips for voting on Election Day.
Hip Hop Team Vote
A project of the Hip-Hop Summit, Hip Hop Team Vote uses Hip-Hop music as a catalyst for advocacy and other societal concerns fundamental to the well being of at-risk youth throughout the United States. This site also contains online voter registration.
U.S. Department of Defense/Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP)
FVAP provides a broad range of non-partisan information and assistance to inform and educate U.S. citizens worldwide of their right to vote, foster voting participation, protect the integrity of, and simultaneously enhance, the electoral process at the Federal, State and local levels. They also provide extensive absentee ballot information.
FirstGov
FirstGov, the official U.S. gateway to all government information, offers information concerning voter registration, understanding the voting process, and the ability to learn more about your elected officials.
Election Assistance Commission (EAC)
EAC was established by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). Central to its role, the Commission serves as a national clearinghouse and resource for information and review of procedures with respect to the administration of Federal elections.
University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Public Policy Center
This website monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.
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Title X, Family Planning Issues
National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA).
Visit the website for the latest information on Title X and other family planning issues.
You will be able to send letters and emails to your member of Congress on the latest family planning issue through this website.
Reproductive Rights
The following sites offer a wealth of information on reproductive rights, women's health care advocacy, and timely legislative updates:
Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)
CHANGE works to ensure that U.S. international policies and programs promote women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health within a human rights framework. CHANGE uses public policy, research, and outreach and constituency building to support the advances of sexual and reproductive health.
National Women's Law Center
This is a new website about contraceptive equity.
Women's Law Project
This site contains the electronic version of the important publication entitled "Young Women's Guide to Abortion in Pennslyvania"
American Civil Liberties Union Reproductive Freedom Project
PA Breast Cancer Coalition
This site is dedicated to ending the breast cancer epidemic across Pennsylvania through research, education, outreach and advocacy.
Pharmacy Access Partnership
A new site focused on issues of access to emergency contraception at pharmacies.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America "Take Political Action Page"
National Abortion & Reproductive Rights Action League
International Women's Health Coalition
The site addresses health and population issues affecting women and girls around the world.
Cover My Pills
This site is designed to promote advocacy and public education activities on insurance coverage for contraception.
No New Money
An advocacy site developed by SEICUS to protest increased funding for abstience only programs.
Fill My Pills Now
This site offers information about access to birth control at pharmacies.
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Government Officials
The following websites are useful for finding out about individual members of the U.S. Congress & U.S. Senate, legislative activity, and other happenings on Capitol Hill:
Library of Congress
Search the site for information on the U.S. Congress & Senate.
Site for the U.S. House of Representatives
Site for the U.S. Senate
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Women's Health Care
Here are some other interesting women's health care websites:
Drexel University’s Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership
The Institute for Women's Policy Research
The National Women's Law Center
The Kaiser Family Foundation
We are always interested in suggestions for new websites.
Email us with your ideas and let us know what you think of the sites listed here publicaffairs@familyplanning.org
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