The League of Women Voters is a multi-issue organization whose mission is to encourage the informed and active participation of citizens in government and to influence public policy through education and advocacy.
Membership is open to all U.S. citizens, both women and men, of voting age.
The League of Women Voters does not support or oppose political parties or candidates. In addition to providing voter information, the League studies governmental issues and, after arriving at consensus, takes action on those issues. Projects we are engaged in for Grand Island include co-sponsoring Kids Vote and Candidates Nights before elections. The League of Women Voters launched its Education Campaign on the costs of sprawl in early June 2000. Since then, the League has reached many hundreds of residents in Erie and Niagara Counties with its PowerPoint presentation on the economic, environmental, and social costs of urban sprawl, remedies being used in other urban metropolitan regions around the country, and options available to this region to reverse the trend.