Protecting Civic Space: a Primer
This resource from Protect America aims to orient civil society organizations to the different types retributive investigations that state and federal government actors may undertake. It is intended to help organizations identify concrete actions they can take now to prepare for and mitigate these threats.
NEW: Election-Related Communications Guide
This resource provides a elections-related guidance on whether and how Jewish organizations should respond to antidemocratic activity from through Inauguration Day.
2024 Election Threats Matrix
This resource from Voting Rights Lab and Secure Democracy USA provides a high level assessment of election threats in key states.
Free, Fair, Safe, and Accessible Elections Scenario Planning
This resource provides detailed scenarios and planning worksheets to help organizations prepare for potential election-related challenges including social unrest, misinformation, and attempts to overturn results, along with instructions for creating custom scenarios tailored to specific community concerns.
NEW: Community Preparedness Working Group Guide
This resource provides guidance for establishing and operating a Community Preparedness Working Group (CPWG) within Jewish organizations. It reviews CPWG best practices to help communities stay safe, informed, and engaged during contentious times.
NEW: Equip 2024 Highlights
This Equip 2024: Community Preparedness Summit page provides a comprehensive list of recordings and resources from our September 17, 2024 virtual event.
Equip Messaging Assets
This resource includes talking points to help Jewish organizations message effectively to preserve social cohesion in contentious times.
NEW: Equip Toolkit
This comprehensive resource provides essential information and action guides to assist Jewish organizations with leading their communities effectively through contentious times.
Drashing Democracy - Talking About the Elections and Beyond During the High Holy Days Webinar
This webinar, held on July 11, 2024, provided tangible ideas and information to clergy interested in speaking about American democracy and the 2024 election during their High Holiday observances.
Communicating to Prevent Violence
Using Over Zero's years of research into conflict resolution, this resource identifies six ways to discourage violence through intentional communication.
How to lead a conversation between people who disagree
Veteran reporter Eve Pearlman introduces "dialogue journalism": a project where journalists go to the heart of social and political divides to support discussions between people who disagree. See what happened when a group that would have never otherwise met gathered to talk about contentious issues.
Polarisation, Political Violence and the U.S. Elections
In this episode of Ripple Effect, Rachel Kleinfeld, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, assesses the health of U.S. democracy and unpacks the risk of political violence surrounding the 2024 U.S. elections.
National Task Force on Election Crises Election Dashboard
The Elections Dashboard is a visualization that collates news stories about past and present election-related developments, sorted by state, some of which could lay the foundation for actual election crises and/or violence.