The Civic Innovation Fund (CIF) is a unique European pooled fund of THE CIVICS Innovation Hub. It pioneers new ideas in civil society, enhances their visibility, and integrates them into NECE, a growing pan-European network of civic educators.

• teachers & educators

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Civic literacy

THE CIVICS supports both citizens and civic educators to deal with the challenges of our time, such as threats to democracy, causes and effects of climate change, growing polarisation, and divides. Our goal is to strengthen the democratic competences, self-efficacy, and resilience of citizens across Europe.

• Civic literacy
• Partner networks and coalitions

Our Mapping Civic Education in Europe programme is a dynamic initiative continuously evolving by adding new countries to the first-ever pan-European virtual map of civic educators.

• Civic maps
• Civic literacy

AI-powered insights to help you find out what the f(ed) the US government is doing

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Generamos espacios para fortalecer la participación política y cívica de las juventudes

• youth
• students

• Civic literacy

Line chatbot to help people interact with and understand Tainan City Council data. Users can ask in Mandarin, Taiwanese, English or by voice.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Our goal is to identify, categorize, and quantify existing organizations, networks, and funders who work to promote and protect healthy democracy in America. We aim to create a compelling, interactive resource that educates and empowers users to engage in democracy.

• Civic data
• Civic tech catalogs
• Civic literacy

Nonpartisan political education app.

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Voter registration

Project to show how your local MP voted on a collection of issues selected by the designer.

• Civic literacy
• Matching views to votes
• Find your representatives

As well as your new MP, there are others who represent you in your area. We're working on a new experimental feature to explain who these people are and how everything from your council to your police force works.

• Civic literacy
• Find your representatives

Creating space to build a democracy for all

• students
• youth

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Civic literacy

A board game to energize participatory sessions in primary school classrooms, practically exploring various dimensions of citizen participation. Wander down the road of this game and improve your territory!

• youth
• students

• Civic literacy
• Games and gamification
• Board games

With Democracy Fitness Training we exercise our democracy muscles and keep them toned to engage in our democracy!

• trainings

• Civic literacy
• Artistic interventions

EDGI’s Public Comments Initiative sheds light on public commenting and how to engage effectively with federal rulemaking.

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Civic literacy

This is a free and collaborative resource on the United States federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

• wikis

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Civic literacy

Quem representa os portugueses na Casa da Democracia?

• Civic literacy
• Find your representatives

The Landscape of Election Denial in America

• corruption
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Voting and elections
• Data visualization
• Civic literacy

The only global launch pad for non-partisan political leadership incubators.

• Accelerators
• Civic literacy

A Próxima Geração, uma associação sem fins lucrativos, tem como objetivo revitalizar a democracia portuguesa. A Próxima Geração representa a primeira Academia apartidária com contexto global em Portugal.

• Civic literacy
• Online courses

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Civic literacy
• Courses

Starting in the fall of 2023, this fellowship will empower student athletes from across the country to strengthen non-partisan civic participation on their teams, on their campuses, and in their broader communities.

• students

• Civic literacy
• Fellowships

Democracy Only Works When We Do

• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

We aim to strengthen instruments for mobile EU citizens and expats to engage in EU political life on an everyday basis

• immigration

• Civic literacy
• Citizen Engagement

Rep lookup tool designed for students and increasing civic literacy

• Civic literacy
• Find your representatives

Civic Story, a wacky Civic Education Game.

• Civic literacy
• Games and gamification

The aim of the project Improving Inclusion of EU Mobile Citizens (IMPEU) is to foster political participation of EU mobile citizens and enhance capacity and knowledge of civil servants and relevant national, regional and local experts on EU citizenship and related political rights.

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

Politische Bildung zu diskutieren und zu stärken sind die Ziele der zentralen Fachzeitschrift Journal für politische Bildung.

• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic literacy

Vous ne comprenez rien à l’Europe ou à l’Union européenne ?

• podcasts

• Civic literacy
• Podcasts

Podcast of the Campaign Legal Center

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Civic literacy
• Podcasts

Conoce todo sobre el proceso de elección del Fiscal General del Ministerio Público de Guatemala

• podcasts

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy

Bringing together democratic organisations and sharing non-partisan resources for teachers to support young people to engage in elections.

• students

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

A Starting Point is a video-based civic engagement platform created by Chris Evans, Mark Kassen, and technology entrepreneur Joe Kiani

• celebrities

• Civic literacy
• Shows and films

Im BVV-Planspiel machen Sie gemeinsam mit anderen Spieler:innen Bezirkspolitik. In einem konkreten Streitfall entwickeln Sie die Position einer fiktiven Partei und vertreten sie in der BVV. Ziel ist es, einen konkreten Antrag an das Bezirksamt zu richten.

• libraries

• Civic literacy
• Games and gamification

A civic explainer by the Brennan Center for Justice

• guides

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy

ALL YOU CAN LEARN – Das ist nicht nur der Name unseres Aus- und Weiterbildungsprogramms, sondern auch unser Versprechen an dich!

• trainings

• Civic literacy
• Citizen Engagement

Interactive Explorations for Students and Teachers, by Robert W. Maloy, Torrey Trust, Allison Butler, & Chenyang Xu

• students
• books

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

Proyecto de evaluación ciudadana del proceso constituyente en Chile

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Civic literacy

NewseumED.org offers free resources to cultivate the First Amendment and media literacy skills essential to civic life.

• free speech

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic literacy

Listen to the How to Citizen Podcast where Baratunde Thurston reimagines the word “citizen” as a verb and reminds us how to wield our collective power.

• Civic literacy
• Podcasts

From october 26 to 30, rock the vote invites you to learn about the united states’ electoral process and, more importantly, vote on the most important issues that are being debated across the country right now.

• Minecraft

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Civic features

Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by changing who participates and how.

• Engagement tech
• Government transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

GovSight is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit that is building a comprehensive civic information platform to help make citizenship simplified for all.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Civic literacy

The largest civic literacy network in Brazil

• students

• Civic literacy

The Civics Unplugged Fellowship is a 3-month civic leadership program that empowers high school students with the training, funding, and network they need to become civic innovators that build a brighter future for humanity.

• students

• Civic literacy
• Fellowships

CIVIX is a non-partisan, national registered charity dedicated to building the skills and habits of active and engaged citizenship among young Canadians

• Civic literacy

Totem is an online learning platform on using digital security tools and tactics effectively for journalists, activists, and trainers.

• trainings

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Civic literacy

Baobab.law attempts to remove barriers to legal assistance by providing DIY legal solutions in the form of videotutorials. Videos are recorded with professional lawyers, and are available in multiple languages.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

The Civic Engagement Commission will enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

A free campaign for youth funded by Colin @kaepernick7 to raise awareness on self-empowerment 💪🏿 and interacting with law enforcement 🚔

• racial equity
• trainings
• youth

• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers
• Justice tech