About This Resource
Elections can significantly impact our work and the issues we are passionate about at both REDF and the ESE field. To help shape and navigate the outcome, here are resources to support your ESE and staff during the election season.
Resources & Trainings for Your Organization
- Navigating Political Uncertainty: Scenario Planning for Nonprofits During This US Election Year (Bridgespan Group)
- NationSwell 2024 Election Scenario Planning Toolkit. (NationSwell)
- Scenario Planning in Action (FutureGood)
- Pivotal moments: Responding to social, cultural, and political events (NationSwell)
- Civics Inc.: How every business can help promote a healthy democracy (NationSwell)
- Basics Doc for Preparing for the 2024 Election (Civic Business Initiative)
- Catalog of Options to Mitigate Political Risks (Civic Business Initiative)
- Championing Democracy Through Civic Engagement (Travelers)
- Mark Your Calendar: The Highest-Risk Election Dates (Protect Democracy)
- 2024 Michigan Business United for Elections Welcome Kit (Michigan Department of State)
- The 2024 Elections and Beyond: Fortifying Ourselves, Our Organizations, and Our Ecosystems (Building Movement Project)
- https://afj.org/training-events (Alliance for Justice)
- · Leading a Nonprofit Through Election Week? Here’s Your Survival Guide, Sara Herschander, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Nov. 4, 2024.
- · What to Say on November 6 and How to Say It, Drew Lindsay, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Oct. 24, 2024.
- · A guide to employee comms in an election year, Speechwriters of Color, Axios HQ