The voting rights organization, New Pennsylvania Project, recently opened an office in Bensalem, writes Naomi Weiss for the Bucks County Beacon. This is the organization’s first office in Bucks County.  

The New Pennsylvania Project was founded in 2021 to offer help with voter registration, mobilization and civic education. The organization focuses primarily on disenfranchised groups, such as people of color, youth and immigrant communities.  

Kadida Kenner, the organization’s founder, noted that they chose Bensalem because of the town’s demographics, believing they could make the greatest impact there. 

“It’s really about meeting people where they are,” Kenner said. “And, if that means we’re going to an NAACP meeting or we’re going to a cultural festival, which we’ve done in Bucks County, we want to be where the people are, and we want to talk to them about getting registered to vote.” 

Alongside promoting registration, the New Pennsylvania Project is also committed to staying engaged with locals and encouraging them to vote. 

“It does no good for us as an organization to have assisted more than 55,000 people in getting registered to vote if they don’t actually show up to the polls, so that’s some of the work that we’re doing right now,” Kenner said. 

Read more about the New Pennsylvania Project’s new Bensalem office and its mission in the Bucks County Beacon. 

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