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How to Speak Nonpartisan - An FCCP/Alliance for Justice Guide for Speakers

Have you ever invited the perfect speaker to your nonpartisan event only to worry that they may have crossed the line into partisan territory? Cautioning speakers to keep their comments (c)(3) is not enough. This quick-reference guide, How to Speak Nonpartisan, addresses the dos and don’ts to maintaining a nonpartisan presentation by providing speakers with specific examples of what they can and cannot say. Share it with your colleagues and grantees and worry no more!

FCCP 2011 Program Report

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2012 Civic Engagement Funding Best Practices

Civic engagement is a useful tool that can help any organization advance its mission. In this useful one-page fact sheet you’ll learn the three major factors in civic engagement success and see FCCP’s key recommendations for funding the civic engagement work of your grantees.

Download FCCP's 2012 Civic Engagement Funding Best Practices fact sheet and share it with your colleagues!

A Funders' Guide to Legal Issues (Updated Edition!)

Supporting nonpartisan civic engagement work is both necessary- and legal! FCCP's indispensible and updated guide, A Funders Guide to Legal Issues, helps de-mystify the IRS rules for funding voter registration, education and ballot campaigns and answers grantmaker's most commonly asked questions.

Integrated Voter Engagement: A Proven Model to Increase Civic Engagement

Research has shown that nonpartisan Integrated Voter Engagement (IVE) is among the most effective ways to increase voter turnout. IVE groups train community members to reach out to their peers in a continuous, ongoing effort that increases the number of voters and leads to policy changes. The most effective IVE organizations add new people to the voter registration rolls, educate voters and election issues, make sure new and unlikely voters actually cast their ballots, and ensure that misinformation and intimidation don't inhibit people from voting.

CGS REPORT: Loopholes, Tricks And End Runs: Evasions Of Campaign Finance Laws, And A Model Law To Block Them

Campaign finance reforms have significantly reduced the potentially negative influences of money on the electoral and governmental processes. Nonetheless, many elected officials and candidates have found lucrative ways to circumvent contribution limits, flout the laws that are in place, and often raise stunning amounts of money in ways not covered by campaign finance laws. Special interests continue to give generously to non-campaign entities to gain access to legislators.