Vision Accessible BRF Resources
This page contains direct links to resources in braille ready format (BRF), through the support of partner JBI International.
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.
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.
Physical Security Best Practices
Stephanie Viegas, Deputy National Security Advisor at Secure Community Network (SCN), presents a Lightning Talk on Physical Security at A More Perfect Union's Equip 2024: Community Preparedness Summit on September 17, 2024.
Cyberecurity Best Practices
Sasha Lundquist, CEO at NGO-ISAC, presents a Lightning Talk on Cyber Security at A More Perfect Union's Equip 2024: Community Preparedness Summit on September 17, 2024.
Conflict De-Escalation Best Practices
Shannon Hiller, Executive Director of Princeton University’s Bridging Divides Initiative, presents a Lightning Talk on Conflict De-Escalation at A More Perfect Union's Equip 2024: Community Preparedness Summit on September 17, 2024.
Countering Extremism Best Practices
Pete Kurtz-Glovas, Deputy Director of Regional Partnerships for American University’s Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab, also known as PERIL, presents a Lightning Talk on Extremism at A More Perfect Union's Equip 2024: Community Preparedness Summit on September 17, 2024.
Rapid Communications Best Practices
Sasha Lundquist, Senior Vice President of Strategic Communications at CLYDE, presents a Lightning Talk on Crisis Communications at A More Perfect Union's Equip 2024: Community Preparedness Summit on September 17, 2024.
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 2024 Next Steps
Aaron Dorfman, Executive Director of A More Perfect Union, wraps up the Equip 2024: Community Preparedness Summit and briefs attendees on next steps on September 17, 2024.
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.
Exploring Misinformation Landscape Webinar
This discussion, held on June 27, 2024, focused on how to identify types of misleading, inaccurate and false information; how to recognize common propagators of falsehoods, and how to evaluate motivations for sharing misinformation.
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.
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 (and Any 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.
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.