Smart Plan: Spitfire’s Guide to Crisis Prep and Management
Spitfire offers four steps that will help any non-profit assess its risks, identify potential sources of attack, minimize risks and leverage its strengths. This simple approach will help you shore up vulnerabilities and rest easy knowing that no matter what comes next, you’re ready for it.
Scenario Planning Worksheet
This resource provides leaders of Jewish organizations with guidance for thinking through potential threats to democracy and how their institutions can best prevent and respond to them.
Rapid Communications Around Threats to Democracy: A Guide for Jewish Organizations
This resource provides rapid communications guidance on whether and how Jewish organizations should respond to anti-democratic activity.
Online Harassment Field Manual
Whether you’re experiencing or witnessing online abuse, this Field Manual offers concrete strategies for how to defend yourself and others.
DIY Scenario Planning Guide
This resource helps leaders of Jewish organizations develop democracy threat scenarios to practice how their institutions might respond to different threats.
Digital Security Helpline
The Helpline will walk you or your organization through assessing the risks you face in your work and
prioritizing your digital security needs. It will help you resolve existing problems, teach you some of the most important best practices, and help you get into a secure mindset for the future.
Cybersecurity Assessment Tool
This tool is designed to measure the maturity, resiliency, and strength of an organization’s cybersecurity efforts. It was created with civil society organizations and nonprofits in mind, and we hope it helps shine some light on a recommended path forward for any organization undertaking a cybersecurity journey.
NEW: Equip Toolkit 2025
This comprehensive resource, updated for 2025, provides essential information and action guides to assist Jewish organizations with leading their communities effectively through contentious times.
NEW: Advancing Democracy Through Local Action
In this briefing held on February 26, 2025, our expert panel explored tangible opportunities to proactively bolster local civic health and act as a bulwark against federal overreach.
Previewing Themes + Threats to Democracy in 2025
In this briefing held on December 13, 2024, A More Perfect Union’s leadership team explored critical challenges to safeguarding democratic institutions in the coming year, how they might tangibly affect Jewish organizations, and what we can begin to do about it.
Protecting Civic Space: a Primer
This resource from Protect Democracy 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.
Quick Reference: Physical Security
This quick reference guide on Physical Security comes from the Equip Toolkit.
Building Resilience
This page provides a curated list of quick reference guides to facilitate a timely response to the needs of the day.
Quick Reference: Crisis Communication
This quick reference guide on Crisis Communication comes from the Equip Toolkit.
Quick Reference: Conflict De-Escalation
This quick reference guide on Conflict De-Escalation comes from the Equip Toolkit.
Quick Reference: Cybersecurity
This action guide on Cybersecurity comes from the Equip Toolkit.
Quick Reference: Basic Principles and How To’s of Countering MDM
This quick reference guide on Basic Principles and How To’s comes from the Counter Toolkit.
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.
Best Practices in Building and Engaging Key Relationships
Panelists Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs; Laura Livingston, Director of Field Support at Over Zero; and Calista Small, Research Manager at More in Common, gathered for a panel discussion entitled, "Building and Engaging Key Relationships," at A More Perfect Union's Equip 2024: Community Preparedness Summit on September 17, 2024.