Democracy Notes

?? DEMOCRACY NOTES 11/21?? ?? Press Forward's open call on local news infrastructure ($20M) ?? Resources and news like Protect Democracy's new apportionment tracker ?? 30+ jobs from across the Democracy space!!! All this and more in this week's edition of (link in comments).

?? Democracy jobs ?? (a record 31 jobs this week!!) New_ Public Head of External Engagement?— remote, $140K-$160K Future Caucus (formerly Millennial Action Project)?Coordinator, Development?— DC (hybrid), $58K-$64K Lumina Foundation?Director, Journalism and Digital Strategies?—?Indianapolis (hybrid), $152K-$180K Generation Citizen?Graphic Designer?— remote, contract, up to $1.5K All 31 (!!!) jobs in today's Democracy Notes! Link in the comments.

2024 was a ?? ?? ?? election cycle for electoral reform. That made me even more curious to hear how Meredith Sumpter and G. Michael Parsons at FairVote were thinking about this moment. Check out their piece in Democracy Notes! (Link in the comments.)

?? JOB ROUNDUP ?? Niskanen Center State Capacity team (DC, hybrid): - Senior Policy Analyst for Talent?— $115K-$140K - Senior Government Affairs Manager?— $124K-$143K Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy?Tech & Public Policy Spring 2024 Visiting Fellow?— DC, $15K Vanderbilt University Center for Effective Lawmaking?Program Coordinator?—?Nashville Crankstart?Vice President of Operations?— San Francisco As usual, you can get info on all these jobs and more in the latest Democracy Notes (link in comments) ??

Electoral reform was on the ballot in several states this November, but mixed results have some thinking..."what's next?" Read the latest in Democracy Notes from Meredith Sumpter (President & CEO at FairVote) and G. Michael Parsons (senior legal fellow) recapping what went down at the polls, and where they see ranked choice voting's trajectory from this moment (link in comments).

For democracy folks who are joining Bluesky (the Twitter alternative), I just made a democracy space starter pack! You can follow all the democracy folks we've found (and pls let us know if you'd like to be included!). Link in the comments! cc: Democracy Notes

?? JOB ROUNDUP ?? Rebuild Local News?Policy Manager for Technology?—?remote, $70K-$85K Brennan Center for Justice?Campaign Director, Supreme Court Reform?— DC, $90K-$140K Future Caucus (formerly Millennial Action Project)?Coordinator, Policy Innovation Lab?— DC (hybrid), $58K-$64K Lumina Foundation?Strategy Director for State Policy?— Indianapolis (other locations possible), $170K-$230K Building Movement Project?Director of Research?—?remote, $130K-$140K All these and more in the latest edition of Democracy Notes (linked in the comments).

What does #CivilSociety and those fighting for democracy need to do in this post-election period? Scott Warren from SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and I share our top three takeaways in this open letter. https://lnkd.in/ea_rKHQv

"The old adage is true: doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results is the definition of insanity." In the latest for Democracy Notes, Lilia Dashevsky (leads the democracy comms practice at CLYDE) and Scott Warren (Fellow at SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University) pen a letter to members of the democracy community on the three things we **must** think about to be able to move forward — and be effective — in this political moment. (Link in comments)

This is a very important read for the pro-democracy ecosystem. There is so much to learn from the past few years - including the very real and potentially painful news that one more podcast (or op ed) is not going to save us.