Curious about what’s on the ballot or the local candidates running in your area? Check out My Vote Project to see when there’s a vote happening in your community. Find out who is running in your elections and what they stand for. Bring it up in your team to find out how to engage with candidates or causes you care about.

Already done with your voting, but want to show your support for others? Consider helping the Pizza to the Polls effort to make voting fun and a joyful community experience!

As a team, connect with your local children’s hospital, community center, or nursing/assisted living home. If visiting isn’t an option because of COVID, see if you could arrange a Zoom call to chat with hospitalized youth or play bingo with the residents. Put a smile on their face!

Invite a faculty member to a team lunch on November 8th and ask them to present no more than 10-15 minutes on a topic related to voting or civic engagement (e.g., voting rights, gerrymandering, Jim Crow laws, or the electoral college).

As a team, go to a family-owned restaurant in your area that has been around for a long time. Ask the owner or manager to share how they have seen the community change and how their business has adjusted over the years.

Amplifier Art is a nonprofit, nonpartisan design lab that builds art and media experiments to amplify the most important movements of our time. Ask your team to look at their free gallery to find a poster or movement that speaks to them personally, and give them space to explain why to their teammates. Consider amplifying that art through individual or a team-based action.

You’re more powerful than you think! Citizen University wants to bring more power to the athletes! They’ve outlined three strategies that every student athlete can use to ensure Election Day is a day for civics and citizenship. 1) Get literate in power 2) Map where power flows 3) Refine your argument to move to action.

Listen to this Burn It All Down podcast episode as a case study on how athletes coming together can create change. In 2020, 10,000 athletes participated in a virtual relay from Atlanta, Georgia to Washington, DC in order to raise money and engage the running community to do something for more than themselves.

Plan a field trip to a meaningful spot on campus, local museum, or historic monument or environmental site to prompt conversation and meaning. Check your campus, community, or local chamber of commerce for suggestions on where to go that is historically significant to your team. Or, consider hosting a virtual history museum tour with your team with one of these sites.​​

“Slay the Dragon" is about the connection of gerrymandering to the Flint, Michigan water crisis

“The Vote” about securing the right for all women to vote

Curious to explore how values can be shared across difference? Check out Citizen Film's documentary American Creed.

Watch a documentary on an athletic “civic leader.” Examples include: Muhammed Ali, Billie Jean King, Arthur Ashe, Lebron James, Jackie Robinson, Bill Russell, and Megan Rapinoe, among others. Discuss how these athletes flexed their civic muscles and skills for positive impact. Check out this starter list of movie ideas.

John Lewis’ story in “Good Trouble"

Watch this short video from iCivics about Patsy Takemoto Mink who became the first woman of color elected to Congress. In her 24 years as a Representative, Mink battled inequality by changing the laws. Her greatest legacy is as the co-author of Title IX, the landmark legislation that prohibits sex discrimination in educational programs that receive federal money.

In this award-winning podcast, How To Citizen, comedian, host, and producer Baratunde Thurston reimagines the word “citizen” as a verb and reminds us how to wield our collective power. Baratunde's citizening practices align with what athletes do every day in their sport: Show Up, Build Relationships, Understand Power, and Invest in the Collective. How does your team citizen in these terms?

We tend to think about civics as a one day event that happens on Election Day, but there are opportunities and notable calendar events related to civics all year long. Check out this robust calendar and list of activities from Civics Season and ask how your team can get involved beyond Election Day, starting with Juneteenth, National Voter Registration Day, or even Election Hero Day when we honor all of those that volunteer to keep our elections safe and fair.

Written by award-winning historian Jon Meacham and narrated by NBA legend Doc Rivers, this podcast explores six of the most historic, inspiring, and moving speeches in sports history. Ask your team to listen to one or more of the episodes, and have a conversation about what makes these speeches so powerful.

Olympic athletes widening conversations about access mental health support

WNBA and NBA’s push to use their arenas for safe voting