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Three Boston-area youth groups will spend the next 10 months working on projects as diverse as advocating for evidence-based policymaking on science to encouraging immigrants to register and vote in high-stakes elections in 2025 and 2026.

They’re part of a contingent of 500 young people across 27 states who are participating in the first Carnegie Young Leaders for Civic Preparedness fellowship program.

It’s a $2.05 million initiative from Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Institute for Citizens & Scholars .

“We wanted to have a robust group of young people, so that there were young people from both urban environments, rural environments [and] young people across the ideological spectrum as well,” the program’s director, Audra Watson, told Mass

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