EJEWISHPHILANTHROPY—Democracies depend on a particular kind of work that rarely gets noticed: the poll worker who arrives before dawn, the election official who spends months preparing, the volunteer who agrees to be reachable if something goes wrong. None of it is dramatic, and all of it is necessary. Increasingly, in communities across the country, there aren’t enough people doing it. The question is, how do we get more people involved — not in the abstract but concretely, community by community, county by county?
At A More Perfect Union, where we help mobilize the American Jewish community to protect and strengthen American democracy, we’ve spent the past several years answering that question in practical terms. We’ve identified a small number of high-leverage nonpartisan actions that Jewish institutions are genuinely positioned to take, and we’ve built the tools, training and funding to make each one achievable.
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