Organizing and Volunteering
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- 18 Nov, 2025
If the things you see in the news compel you to do something, this is the place to start. Learn about organizing in your community and resources to help.
Quick Resources
- How to Hold a Successful District Office Visit
- How to Get Press to Your Event Guide
- Indivisible Town Hall Guide
- Original 2016 Indivisible Guide on Getting Members of Congress to Listen
- Labor-Management Relations from the OPM
- @solar-sunnyside-up Ideas for how to improve community bus stops
Volunteer Virtually
While this site is location neutral, here are some ways you can donate your time or skills to online resources.
- Planned Parrenthood - Phone banking, online meetings, connecting with your social network for voting reminders.
- Equality Florida - Monday from 5-6:30 EST, help phone bank to build grassroots support for LGBTQ+ people in Florida.
- Indivisible Signs of Solidarity Sign up to visit local businesses and ask them to display signs that declare support for immigrant neighbors and opposition to ICE.
- Virgina 2025 Phonebank Help support Virginia candidates from Governor to school board by calling voters
- Planned Parenthood Action Fund Start a volunteer fundraiser for the month of Oct
Trump's Attacks on Non-Profits
Tactics
- Removing non-profit status, financially putting them at the disadvantage of having to factor new tax revenue into their budget.
- Accuse groups of being "anti-American" or bad faith organizations.
- Use federal agencies to investigate them for "wrong doing" despite little evidence or vague accusations.
- The government at any level may issue as data demand in the form of a warrant, subpoena, civil investigative demand, or admin summons. This would require companies to turn over communications and sensitive information for their organizations.
Trump will deny that it’s about revenge, even as the targets neatly match the list of those who have crossed him or oppose his policies. This, too, is from the playbook: Sow enough confusion, enough plausible deniability, that people no longer know what to believe.
- Ian Bassin
Tips for Resistance
- The IRS is not allowed to attack non-profits by taking their status away, this is a violation of federal law. Don't let this be a tactic used against you.
- Get a legal team involved right away. You want to ensure this demand is completely lawful before turning over information. You can quickly read over federal laws currently in place.
- Health information, information regarding children, and student info are all protected data. These information requests should be extra scrutinized to make sure they don't violate national, state, or local laws.
- Have a plan ahead of time of how to respond to any data demands. Get a legal support system in place, have specific staff members in charge of specific responses. Figure out how lower level staff should respond and how 3rd parties (e.g. clients) should be alerted.
- Once a plan is in place, audit it regularly. Make sure data is encrypted and stored safely. Data security and cyber audit tools are a must.
- Minimize data collection where possible. If you don't have the data, it can't be asked for. You can also reduce the amount of time data is held onto such as communications. Be sure to look into legal requirements for certain data types.
- Remain calm and cooperative in the moment - follow the protocols of your plans that have been discussed with IT and legal. Learn more about responding to subpoenas in the moment.