#WeTheCivic: “America’s” Stories Can’t Be Told Without Us
From isolated Appalachian towns to redlined urban neighborhoods, purpose-driven nonprofits create democracy’s frontline for care—and its last line of defense. We house veterans. We feed neighbors. We register voters. We protect the planet. We publish hard truths when easy lies are cheaper.
Nonprofits expand the “We” of “We the People” when power tries to shrink it.
The nonprofit sector is not a charitable sideline or tax write-off for the “real” work of democracy. We are the work—and the workers—advancing democracy’s promises daily.
That’s why, this Fourth of July season, a nonprofit coalition is launching #WeTheCivic—a month-long celebration of the unquenchable nonprofit voices fighting for democracy. This month, we celebrate not the past myths of “America’s founding,” but the potential for new futures, powered by nonprofit workers and leaders like Ava.
