We believe that educated voters strengthen our democracy and improves the lives of individuals living in low-income, African American communities.
The mission of the Promise of Democracy Foundation, Inc. (PDF) is provide education through research and the arts in low-income, African American communities that promotes democratic values and electoral participation.
PDF was founded in Ohio in 2009 as a non-partisan organization to help expand access to state and federal resources that address gaps in civic education services in underserved and unrepresented communities of color.
All PDF local, state and regional programs are designed to improve and/or enhance, the level of civic education in select communities.
The mission of the Promise of Democracy Foundation, Inc. (PDF) is provide education through research and the arts in low-income, African American communities that promotes democratic values and electoral participation.
PDF was founded in Ohio in 2009 as a non-partisan organization to help expand access to state and federal resources that address gaps in civic education services in underserved and unrepresented communities of color.
All PDF local, state and regional programs are designed to improve and/or enhance, the level of civic education in select communities.
Gregory T. Moore is one of the nation’s leading voting rights leaders and advocates with a long and distinguished history of political empowerment and issue advocacy. He has served in several leadership positions throughout his many years of grassroots organizing and program development at the local, state and national level. He is currently the President and CEO of the Promise of Democracy Foundation, Inc.,
501(C) (3) non-profit organization committed to expanding voting rights and continuing his work of breaking down barriers to full participation in American Democracy. Moore served 17 years as the Executive Director, and Custodial Operational Manager of the NAACP National Voter Fund, (NVF) the 501 (C) (4) arm of the NAACP, from 2001 through 2018. During his tenure through the 2018 elections, Moore was responsible for the overall coordination of national programs designed to promote voting rights, election reform and issues critical to the NAACP. Other responsibilities including increasing voter participation among African Americans and communities. Since 2002 NVF’s efforts have registered over 500,000 voters nationwide. |
Moore served five years as the Legislative Director (’93-94) and Chief of Staff (98-2001) for former Michigan Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D), who served as Ranking Member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee,) and Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus. In these roles Moore directed the overall operations and legislative strategy for the Congressman with a special emphasis on civil rights, voting rights, election reform, campaign finance reform, and criminal justice reform issues. During this period Moore capped his six-year advocacy of voter registration reform by helping steer the final passage of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, a.k.a. the “Motor Voter” bill and early development of the Help America Vote Act, (HAVA).
From 1994 through 1997, he served as Deputy Political Director for the Democratic National Committee where he was instrumental in developing the party’s voter registration and outreach programs while also conceptualizing and overseeing the party’s first Base Vote constituency outreach programs nationally and within state parties. Moore served as the DNC’s Director of Voter Registration and Participation where he was instrumental in overseeing the DNC Training Division and voter outreach in Coordinated Campaigns. He served as part of the party’s strategic team responsible for planning and implementation the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election campaign.
In 2006 Moore served as a consultant to the Democratic National Committee where he restructured the DNC’s Voting Rights Institute by developing programs to provide more direct assistance to voters through creation of the party’s first national voter assistance hotline, 866-DEM-VOTE; he also convened voting rights summits that brought together election lawyers, advocacy groups and net-roots activists to help coordinate their election protection efforts. At the request of Chairman Howard Dean, Moore instituted the party’s first 50-state voter protection program that established election protection operations in all 50 state parties for the first time.
Ohio History
Moore had been a leader of a number of organizations and coalitions that have been active in Ohio over the past 15 years, He founded the Ohio Voter Fund (OVF) in 2010 to build a network of local community activists across Ohio to conduct voter registration and education programs, petition drives and GOTV programs throughout the state. In 2012 he co-founded the Promise of Democracy Foundation, Inc., an Ohio based 501 (C) (3) organization to carry out his ongoing democracy build and advocacy activities. OVF has been an active participant in the Ohio Voice state table and was one of the leading Black Led organizations for conducting data-based neighborhood canvassing. From 2010-11 he served as the State Director of Ohio Voice, the statewide table of non-partisan civic engagement and progressive organizations. He has worked closely with the Ohio NAACP, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, APRI, and the Ohio Unity Coalition.
From 2011 to 2012 Moore worked with former Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner in forming Fair Elections Ohio, a statewide coalition formed to repeal the voter suppression bill H.B. 194 passed by the Republican led General Assembly. The coalition successfully gathered sufficient signatures to qualify for the 2012 ballot prompting the legislature to repeal its own voter suppression law. OVF has partnered with Fair Districts Ohio on signature collection drives in support of Redistricting Reform ballot measures in 2015 and in support of the Congressional Redistricting Reform Legislative package signed into law in 2018.
In 2012 he was appointed by the House Administration Committee Minority as their representative to the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) Board of Advisors. He was a strong advocate for the appointment of EAC Commissioners that were being blocked by congressional filibusters for over 4 years. Finally in 2014 he was instrumental in working with the Obama Administration, Congressional Leaders and allied partners that led to the restoration of the Election Assistance Commission and the EAC Board of Advisors into a fully functional federal agency. The re-establishment of the EAC has facilitated the disbursement of hundreds of millions of new federal funds to states for enhanced cyber security and upgrades to voting systems in all 50 states.
In recent years Moore has worked through his foundation to develop new and innovative national and statewide voter engagement data-based strategies and models as tools for carrying on his commitment to empower disenfranchised communities and expand the right to vote for all Americans. Moore has lectured on college campuses across the US and received awards and recognition for his long-standing commitment to voting rights and expanding our Democracy at the local, state and national level. He is also the author of an upcoming book Beyond the Voting Rights Act, a memoir of his many years of voting rights advocacy work including his multi-year legislative efforts which helped secure the passage of the National Voter Registration Act, and other major legislative and election administration advances that protects the voting rights of all Americans.
Mr. Moore received his Bachelor of Science Degree from the Ohio University, College of Communications, in June 1983, with a major in Organizational Communications and a minor in Political Science. After over 30 years of advocacy work, he returned to higher education to complete his Master of Public Administration at the
From 1994 through 1997, he served as Deputy Political Director for the Democratic National Committee where he was instrumental in developing the party’s voter registration and outreach programs while also conceptualizing and overseeing the party’s first Base Vote constituency outreach programs nationally and within state parties. Moore served as the DNC’s Director of Voter Registration and Participation where he was instrumental in overseeing the DNC Training Division and voter outreach in Coordinated Campaigns. He served as part of the party’s strategic team responsible for planning and implementation the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election campaign.
In 2006 Moore served as a consultant to the Democratic National Committee where he restructured the DNC’s Voting Rights Institute by developing programs to provide more direct assistance to voters through creation of the party’s first national voter assistance hotline, 866-DEM-VOTE; he also convened voting rights summits that brought together election lawyers, advocacy groups and net-roots activists to help coordinate their election protection efforts. At the request of Chairman Howard Dean, Moore instituted the party’s first 50-state voter protection program that established election protection operations in all 50 state parties for the first time.
Ohio History
Moore had been a leader of a number of organizations and coalitions that have been active in Ohio over the past 15 years, He founded the Ohio Voter Fund (OVF) in 2010 to build a network of local community activists across Ohio to conduct voter registration and education programs, petition drives and GOTV programs throughout the state. In 2012 he co-founded the Promise of Democracy Foundation, Inc., an Ohio based 501 (C) (3) organization to carry out his ongoing democracy build and advocacy activities. OVF has been an active participant in the Ohio Voice state table and was one of the leading Black Led organizations for conducting data-based neighborhood canvassing. From 2010-11 he served as the State Director of Ohio Voice, the statewide table of non-partisan civic engagement and progressive organizations. He has worked closely with the Ohio NAACP, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, APRI, and the Ohio Unity Coalition.
From 2011 to 2012 Moore worked with former Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner in forming Fair Elections Ohio, a statewide coalition formed to repeal the voter suppression bill H.B. 194 passed by the Republican led General Assembly. The coalition successfully gathered sufficient signatures to qualify for the 2012 ballot prompting the legislature to repeal its own voter suppression law. OVF has partnered with Fair Districts Ohio on signature collection drives in support of Redistricting Reform ballot measures in 2015 and in support of the Congressional Redistricting Reform Legislative package signed into law in 2018.
In 2012 he was appointed by the House Administration Committee Minority as their representative to the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) Board of Advisors. He was a strong advocate for the appointment of EAC Commissioners that were being blocked by congressional filibusters for over 4 years. Finally in 2014 he was instrumental in working with the Obama Administration, Congressional Leaders and allied partners that led to the restoration of the Election Assistance Commission and the EAC Board of Advisors into a fully functional federal agency. The re-establishment of the EAC has facilitated the disbursement of hundreds of millions of new federal funds to states for enhanced cyber security and upgrades to voting systems in all 50 states.
In recent years Moore has worked through his foundation to develop new and innovative national and statewide voter engagement data-based strategies and models as tools for carrying on his commitment to empower disenfranchised communities and expand the right to vote for all Americans. Moore has lectured on college campuses across the US and received awards and recognition for his long-standing commitment to voting rights and expanding our Democracy at the local, state and national level. He is also the author of an upcoming book Beyond the Voting Rights Act, a memoir of his many years of voting rights advocacy work including his multi-year legislative efforts which helped secure the passage of the National Voter Registration Act, and other major legislative and election administration advances that protects the voting rights of all Americans.
Mr. Moore received his Bachelor of Science Degree from the Ohio University, College of Communications, in June 1983, with a major in Organizational Communications and a minor in Political Science. After over 30 years of advocacy work, he returned to higher education to complete his Master of Public Administration at the
Gregory T. Moore is one of the nation’s leading voting rights leaders and advocates with a long and distinguished history of political empowerment and issue advocacy. He has served in several leadership positions throughout his many years of grassroots organizing and program development at the local, state and national level. He is currently the President and CEO of the Promise of Democracy Foundation, Inc.,
501(C) (3) non-profit organization committed to expanding voting rights and continuing his work of breaking down barriers to full participation in American Democracy.
Moore served 17 years as the Executive Director, and Custodial Operational Manager of the NAACP National Voter Fund, (NVF) the 501 (C) (4) arm of the NAACP, from 2001 through 2018. During his tenure through the 2018 elections, Moore was responsible for the overall coordination of national programs designed to promote voting rights, election reform and issues critical to the NAACP and its branches, while also increasing voter education and participation among African Americans and communities of color throughout the US. Since 2002 NVF’s efforts have registered over 500,000 voters nationwide.
Moore served five years as the Legislative Director (’93-94) and Chief of Staff (98-2001) for former Michigan Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D), who served as Ranking Member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee,) and Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus. In these roles Moore directed the overall operations and legislative strategy for the Congressman with a special emphasis on civil rights, voting rights, election reform, campaign finance reform, and criminal justice reform issues. During this period Moore capped his six-year advocacy of voter registration reform by helping steer the final passage of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, a.k.a. the “Motor Voter” bill and early development of the Help America Vote Act, (HAVA).
Other US Government service includes Moore’s serving as a presidential appointee to the Martin Luther King Federal Holiday Commission from 1985-1989 where he worked with Mrs. Coretta Scott King, the King Center, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and a number of noted Commissioners to establish the nation’s first official observances of the Federal Holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader.
In 2012 he was appointed by the House Administration Committee Minority as their representative to the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) Board of Advisors. He was a strong advocate for the appointment of EAC Commissioners that were being blocked by congressional filibusters for over 4 years. Finally in 2014 he was instrumental in working with the Obama Administration, Congressional Leaders and allied partners that led to the restoration of the Election Assistance Commission and the EAC Board of Advisors into a fully functional federal agency. The re-establishment of the EAC has facilitated the disbursement of hundreds of millions of new federal funds to states for enhanced cyber security and upgrades to voting systems in all 50 states.
From 1994 through 1997, he served as Deputy Political Director for the Democratic National Committee where he was instrumental in developing the party’s voter registration and outreach programs while also conceptualizing and overseeing the party’s first Base Vote constituency outreach programs nationally and within state parties. Moore also served as the DNC’s Director of Voter Registration and Participation where he was instrumental in overseeing the DNC Training Division and targeted voter outreach in Coordinated Campaigns. He was also part of the early White House strategic team responsible for the planning and implementation of the successful 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election campaign.
In 2006 he served as a consultant to the Democratic National Committee where he restructured the DNC’s Voting Rights Institute by developing programs to provide more direct assistance to voters through creation of the party’s first national voter assistance hotline, 866-DEM-VOTE; he also convened voting rights summits that brought together election lawyers, advocacy groups and net-roots activists to help coordinate their election protection efforts. At the request of Chairman Howard Dean, Moore instituted the party’s first 50-state voter protection program that established election protection operations in all 50 state parties for the first time.
In recent years Moore has worked through his foundation to develop new and innovative national and statewide voter engagement data-based strategies and models as tools for carrying on his commitment to empower disenfranchised communities and expand the right to vote for all Americans. Moore has lectured on college campuses across the US and received awards and recognition for his long-standing commitment to voting rights and expanding our Democracy at the local, state and national level. He is also the author of an upcoming book Beyond the Voting Rights Act, a memoir of his many years of voting rights advocacy work including his multi-year legislative efforts which helped secure the passage of the National Voter Registration Act, and other major legislative and election administration advances that protects the voting rights of all Americans.
Mr. Moore received his Bachelor of Science Degree from the Ohio University, College of Communications, in June 1983, with a major in Organizational Communications and a minor in Political Science. After over 30 years of advocacy work, he returned to higher education and will complete his Master of Public Administration at the George Voinovich School of Public Administration at Ohio University in 2021.
501(C) (3) non-profit organization committed to expanding voting rights and continuing his work of breaking down barriers to full participation in American Democracy.
Moore served 17 years as the Executive Director, and Custodial Operational Manager of the NAACP National Voter Fund, (NVF) the 501 (C) (4) arm of the NAACP, from 2001 through 2018. During his tenure through the 2018 elections, Moore was responsible for the overall coordination of national programs designed to promote voting rights, election reform and issues critical to the NAACP and its branches, while also increasing voter education and participation among African Americans and communities of color throughout the US. Since 2002 NVF’s efforts have registered over 500,000 voters nationwide.
Moore served five years as the Legislative Director (’93-94) and Chief of Staff (98-2001) for former Michigan Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D), who served as Ranking Member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee,) and Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus. In these roles Moore directed the overall operations and legislative strategy for the Congressman with a special emphasis on civil rights, voting rights, election reform, campaign finance reform, and criminal justice reform issues. During this period Moore capped his six-year advocacy of voter registration reform by helping steer the final passage of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, a.k.a. the “Motor Voter” bill and early development of the Help America Vote Act, (HAVA).
Other US Government service includes Moore’s serving as a presidential appointee to the Martin Luther King Federal Holiday Commission from 1985-1989 where he worked with Mrs. Coretta Scott King, the King Center, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and a number of noted Commissioners to establish the nation’s first official observances of the Federal Holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader.
In 2012 he was appointed by the House Administration Committee Minority as their representative to the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) Board of Advisors. He was a strong advocate for the appointment of EAC Commissioners that were being blocked by congressional filibusters for over 4 years. Finally in 2014 he was instrumental in working with the Obama Administration, Congressional Leaders and allied partners that led to the restoration of the Election Assistance Commission and the EAC Board of Advisors into a fully functional federal agency. The re-establishment of the EAC has facilitated the disbursement of hundreds of millions of new federal funds to states for enhanced cyber security and upgrades to voting systems in all 50 states.
From 1994 through 1997, he served as Deputy Political Director for the Democratic National Committee where he was instrumental in developing the party’s voter registration and outreach programs while also conceptualizing and overseeing the party’s first Base Vote constituency outreach programs nationally and within state parties. Moore also served as the DNC’s Director of Voter Registration and Participation where he was instrumental in overseeing the DNC Training Division and targeted voter outreach in Coordinated Campaigns. He was also part of the early White House strategic team responsible for the planning and implementation of the successful 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election campaign.
In 2006 he served as a consultant to the Democratic National Committee where he restructured the DNC’s Voting Rights Institute by developing programs to provide more direct assistance to voters through creation of the party’s first national voter assistance hotline, 866-DEM-VOTE; he also convened voting rights summits that brought together election lawyers, advocacy groups and net-roots activists to help coordinate their election protection efforts. At the request of Chairman Howard Dean, Moore instituted the party’s first 50-state voter protection program that established election protection operations in all 50 state parties for the first time.
In recent years Moore has worked through his foundation to develop new and innovative national and statewide voter engagement data-based strategies and models as tools for carrying on his commitment to empower disenfranchised communities and expand the right to vote for all Americans. Moore has lectured on college campuses across the US and received awards and recognition for his long-standing commitment to voting rights and expanding our Democracy at the local, state and national level. He is also the author of an upcoming book Beyond the Voting Rights Act, a memoir of his many years of voting rights advocacy work including his multi-year legislative efforts which helped secure the passage of the National Voter Registration Act, and other major legislative and election administration advances that protects the voting rights of all Americans.
Mr. Moore received his Bachelor of Science Degree from the Ohio University, College of Communications, in June 1983, with a major in Organizational Communications and a minor in Political Science. After over 30 years of advocacy work, he returned to higher education and will complete his Master of Public Administration at the George Voinovich School of Public Administration at Ohio University in 2021.