National Civic League + ActiVote
The National Civic League + ActiVote Partnership
Try it!Our team partners
The National Civic League has partnered with ActiVote to give communities a simple, trusted, and data-driven way to understand the health of their local democracy and gather feedback on issues that matter. Through this partnership, communities can deploy customized, community-specific surveys using ActiVote’s award-winning polling methodology. All tools are completely free for both local governments and individual residents.
You do not need an ActiVote account to take this survey. Anyone can participate by skipping the name and email fields. Creating an account is optional, but it unlocks additional free features such as personalized comparisons between your policy views and candidates’ positions, daily civic quizzes, nonpartisan candidate information, policy issue polling, and candidate approval surveys.
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Nonpartisan voter education platform
Our work in communities
Public meetings, such as city council and board or commission meetings, are essential to local decision-making. The Better Public Meetings project helps communities strengthen transparency, increase satisfaction with the public meeting process, and ensure that more voices can be heard.
This work combines community feedback, testing of new tools, and exploration of creative approaches to make meetings more welcoming and effective. ActiVote aggregates local results to help a community understand its strengths and opportunities, and that feedback also contributes to a broader picture of democratic health across the country.
About NCL
The mission of the National Civic League is to advance inclusive civic engagement and promote innovations in democracy to make decision-making more participatory, equitable, and effective. Founded in 1894 by Teddy Roosevelt and Louis Brandeis, the Civic League championed the democracy innovations of the early 20th Century. Today the League hosts the Center for Democracy Innovation (CDI), which works with communities across the U.S. to understand, test, and disseminate the next generation of civic innovations. The League also maintains the Model City Charter, organizes the All-America City Awards, publishes the National Civic Review, sustains the Healthy Democracy Ecosystem Map, helps cities measure their civic engagement work, and supports an extensive national network of local elected, appointed, and civic leaders.
About ActiVote
ActiVote is the nation’s largest and fastest-growing nonpartisan voter engagement platform, designed to make participating in democracy easier, more informed, and more accessible. ActiVote provides fact-based information about every election in which a user can vote—from school board races to federal offices—and offers unbiased comparisons of how a user’s policy preferences align with candidates’ publicly stated positions.
ActiVote is also a leader in high-quality public opinion research. Using rigorous weighting methods, ActiVote produces polling data that has been nationally recognized for accuracy.
In the 2024 election, ActiVote polls began to appear in the media and on prominent polling aggregators like FiveThirtyEight. ActiVote was ultimately recognized as the eighth most accurate pollster nationwide and the second most accurate in the presidential race. This same methodology powers the surveys used in communities through their partnership with the National Civic League.
Have your say
The survey takes a few minutes, needs no account, and every answer is anonymous.
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