Are you taking the right steps for advocacy and voter education in your community?
Get organized with a helpful timeline and resources from National PTA that will help leaders and members plan community engagement activities leading up to an election. Learn more about what your nonprofit can and can’t do around elections, ballot measures, town halls, candidate forums and other election activities.
Voter Engagement Timeline
This timeline will help your PTA organize itself for its election related community engagement activities.
Election Guides
- Permissible Activities Checklist (PDF): An overview of what nonprofits can and cannot do around elections.
- Candidate Appearances (PDF): Provides guidelines on inviting candidates to appear at your events.
- Hosting a Candidate Forum (PDF): An in-depth guide with step-by-step instructions on planning a candidate forum, including what nonprofits can and cannot do.
- Nonprofits and Ballot Measures (PDF): An overview of what actions nonprofits can take around ballot measures.
- Nonprofits, Voting, and Elections (PDF): Explains the actions that nonprofits can take surrounding voter participation and member election education.