Standing Up for Your Community: Influencing the Redistricting Process

The redistricting process presents an excellent opportunity for your nonprofit organization to get involved to ensure your community is not unfairly divided by district boundaries.  Your 501(c)(3) public charity can safely and legally participate in the redistricting process, although you must understand that some of your activities may count as lobbying.  In addition, you must ensure that your efforts do not cross into impermissible campaign intervention.  To understand the classification of particular redistricting-based activities, read Alliance for Justice’s new fact sheet.