Democracy North Carolina has prepared a variety of written resources that you can download and copy. We also offer pre-printed supplies of some materials. Simply download what you want below or contact us for information on customizing certain pieces for your purposes, arranging for large print runs or contracting with us to develop similar materials for your organization.

 

Issue Education

These educational hand-outs and fact sheets explain our core issues or current initiatives and why we believe they are so important:

 

Supporting the Fair Elections Now Act (FENA)

• Wall Street donations on the federal level.

• How the healthcare industry is affecting the federal healthcare debate.

• Environmental policy and industry contributions on the federal level.

• Why the Latino community is supporting FENA.

• Why the African-American community is supporting FENA.
  

 

Other Issues

• What Ails the Healthcare Policy Debate

• How Money Is Affecting the Environmental Policy Debate

• How Lawmakers Are Reacting to the Citizens United Ruling

• Census 2010 Info Hand-out

• Census 2010 Info Hand-out: Spanish Version

• Democracy Agenda 2009-10*

1. What are Voter-Owned Elections?

2. How do Voter-Owned Elections Work?

3. Summary of 2009 Voter-Owned Elections Act for Expansion of Council of State Races

4. Instant Runoff Voting Summary

5. Summary of the Fair Elections Now Act (FENA)

6. Adopt a Neightborhood Flyer: Census 2010

7. Democracy Advocates Take Action Flyer

8. Youth Pre-Registration Bill Summary

9. Researching Campaign Disclosure Reports

10. Researching Lobbying Expense Reports

11. Public Campaign Fund check-off reminder inserts

 

Get Out the Vote Materials

These materials provide information about voting, the rights of voters in NC and successful Get Out the Vote strategies:

1. Rights of Ex-Felons Flyer

2. Same-Day Registration Flyer

3. Voter Registration Drive Presentation

4. NC Voter Bill of Rights

5. Guide to Permissible Activities for Faith Communities

6. Guide to College Student Voting in NC (1-Page)

7. Creating a Campus GOTV Strategy (comprehensive)

 

Archives

These resources contain outdated information but may be useful to you as a template for your own materials or as background information on some of our issues:

• Nonprofit Guidance: Regulations for Grassroots & Direct Lobbying (2006)

• Step Up! A Guide to Voting in NC (2008)

• Apartment Residents VOTE! Poster (2008)

• Brochure on Voting Rights & Quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2008)

• SDR “Frequently Asked Questions” Flyer (2007)

• 1-page flyer on "Fraud Fears, ID Requirements, and Same-Day Registration" (2007)

• Voter-Owned Elections in Legislative Races (2007)

• Clean Environment, Clean Elections (2006)

• Q&A on the Public Campaign Fund, distributed by the State Board of Elections (2007)

An Outstanding Resource on Local Democracy:

A brilliant and generous team of authors have named Democracy North Carolina as the recipient of proceeds from their book, Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism, Public Interest and Private Politics. The book is a study of five North Carolina communities, including some Democracy NC target areas. It is a must-read for anyone concerned about creating a truly participatory society.

 

Many thanks to its authors and UNC faculty members Donald Nonini and Dorothy Holland for their research and philanthropy.You can order on-line at any book site. It's also available at Triangle bookstores, including Bull's Head Bookshop (UNC-Chapel Hill), Regulator Bookshop (Durham) and Quail Ridge Books & Music (Raleigh).

We also have many reports on these topics in our Research Library section. >>