This initiative addresses a bedrock racial justice issue: expanding the active electorate. Our work focuses on increasing democratic participation in low-income and minority communities by investigating obstacles to voter participation and providing mechanisms for removing those obstacles, generating reform efforts that seek to expand opportunities for democratic participation, building support for a more transformational solution for re-enfranchising formerly incarcerated people, and facilitating alliances among multi-racial groups.

Advancement Project's Opportunity to Learn Program seeks to take decisive actions to eliminate institutional barriers that exclude children of color and poor children from quality K-12 education and opportunities to pursue college degrees. Currently, the Program comprises two initiatives: Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track and Quality Education for All.

This initiative enables Advancement Project to gradually increase the number of core subject matter areas in which we specialize. Currently are main foci are Hurricane Katrina and Immigrant Rights.