Call for Pitches:
#WeTheCivic: America 250
We’re now accepting #WeTheCivic: America 250 essays and artwork submissions from public thinkers, academics, freelancers, workers, and artists.
Each #WeTheCivic piece will center intersectional nonprofit workers, histories, organizations, and/or stories that have been systematically excluded or ignored from dominant narratives about who and how we advance the unfulfilled promises of a thriving multiracial “American democracy.”
Accepted pieces will illuminate, interrogate, and advance understanding of how nonprofit workers, organizations, and/or movements have and are defending and advancing our democracy in all forms, from local community advancement to national policy change.
All content will be available for co-publishing at Nonprofit Quarterly and the author/artist’s personal platforms of choice, as well as aggressively syndicated to nonprofit network media partners and mainstream publications covering the America 250 cultural moment.
#WeTheCivic Nonprofit Newsroom Partnerships
A coalition of independent media organizations, nonprofit newsrooms, and civic institutions have committed to publishing stories of local nonprofits defending democracy and impacting their communities around the America 250, July 4, 2026 moment, including the Institute for Nonprofit News, The 19th News Network, and Liberation Ventures
