Supporting the Smooth Administration of Local Elections Toolkit
This comprehensive resource provides essential information and action guides to inform and assist Jewish organizations in effectively supporting the smooth administration of local elections.
Supporting the Smooth Administration of Local Elections Messaging Assets
This resouce includes templates to help Jewish organizations communicate post about the smooth administration of local elections on a variety of social media platforms.
Webinar on Supporting the Smooth Administration of Local Elections
This discussion, held on May 30, 2024, featured an expert briefing and related toolkit on the topic of supporting the smooth administration of local elections. Together, we discussed how to recruit poll workers, support local election officials, and celebrate all election workers.
Speaker's Bureau
Find the expert speaker you need for your next event or gathering. Everyone on this list is a member of the Democracy Communications Collaborative and takes a non-partisan approach to their work. Information on how to contact each expert is listed.
Poll Worker Recruitment Video
This video, featuring Marta Hanson of Power the Polls, helps explain what poll workers do, why they are needed, and how to join the nationwide effort to ensure we have enough!
"501(c)3 Compliance in an Election Year"
Protect Democracy Policy Advocate and A More Perfect Union Strategic Advisor Chris Crawford teaches Jewish organizations have to engage around federal and local elections while maintaining nonprofit status (also known as 501(c)3 compliance) during an election year.
"Election 2024: What We Can Do Together"
This video kicks off A More Perfect Union's effort to advance free, fair, safe, and accessible elections in 2024.
"How to revive your belief in democracy"
Civic evangelist Eric Liu shares a powerful way to rekindle the spirit of citizenship and the belief that democracy still works.
"The triple threat to democracy in 2024"
Our democracy hinges on the ability to hold together a broad, pro-democracy coalition. If such a coalition stays unified, engaged, and committed, we will begin to see the grass-shoots of a more vibrant, representative, and inclusive democracy.
"Act Now as an Individual"
This page collects recommended action items that individuals can take to help advance free, fair, safe, and accessible elections in 2024.
Democracy Ballot
This Democracy Ballot, created by Repair the World and A More Perfect Union, provides a menu of options to expand your civic engagement through service and education in support of free, fair, safe, and accessible elections in 2024 and beyond.
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.
Understanding News Literacy Bias with the News Literacy Project
This video, the first in a series of expert events designed to help communities combat mis-, dis-, and malinformation meant to disrupt the electoral process, features Peter Adams of the News Literacy Project talking about media bias.
Rumor Guard
The News Literacy Project launched RumorGuard to help people recognize misinformation and stop it in its tracks. Each fact-checked viral rumor contains concrete tips to help you build your news literacy foundation and confidently evaluate claims you see online.
How to Find Credible Information About the Election (and Avoid Getting Duped)
This guide, designed for first-time voters, offers concrete tips for those consuming election information with a critical eye toward accuracy.
Disinformation threatens global elections – here’s how to fight back
This article explains the threat posed by mis-, dis-, and malinformation (MDM) and introduces the concent of "prebunking," which involves warning people not to fall for a false narrative or propaganda tactic, together with an explanation as to why.