Resources
For Foundations
- Arnold & Porter: Private Foundation Support for Redistricting Activities
- This memo developed by Arnold & Porter’s James P. Joseph, Bridget M. Weiss, and Declan Tansey describes the nonpartisan redistricting activities that private foundations and their grantees may undertake.
- Bolder Advocacy: The Redistricting Process and Private Foundations
- Caplin & Drysdale: Redistricting Activities Fundable by Private Foundations
- This memo developed by Caplin & Drysdale’s Marcus S. Owens and Elizabeth S. Grossman discusses examples of the wide variety of redistricting reform work that private foundations can support.
- Private Foundations and Redistricting
- Community Foundations and Redistricting
- Talking Points for Foundation Boards & Leadership
Articles
- Vitalyst Health Foundation: Your voting district is as important as your vote. Don’t let others set the map for you.
- Blue Shield of California: Congressional Redistricting and Health: Yes, There is a Link
- Philanthropy California: Statement on Apportionment & Redistricting Data
- Chronicle of Philanthropy: The Pandemic Has Revealed the Weaknesses in our Democracy
- The Chronicle of Philanthropy: A New Move to Limit the Census Will Harm Virtually Every Cause
Reports and Learning — 2021 Redistricting Cycle
- Reimagining Redistricting: How Philanthropy Invested in Fairer Maps, Community Engagement, and Racial Equity During the 2021–22 Redistricting Cycle (National): This case study examines philanthropy’s unprecedented investment in during the 2021 – 2022 redistricting cycle in securing district maps that fairly represent people of color. Reimaging Redistricting tells the story of how the Fair Representation in Redistricting funder collaborative formed, what participants learned, and how the FRR community’s efforts fundamentally changed the way that philanthropy engages with this foundational democratic process – all while keeping the leadership and needs of communities of color at the center. The report also includes key learnings about the path forward for funders – including during critical “mid cycle” years.
- CHARGE Community Redistricting 50-State Report Card (National)
- Drawing Democracy – Summary Report (Massachusetts)
General Redistricting Resources
All About Redistricting
All About Redistricting is a one-stop shop that includes historical information about redistricting and is also tracking the rules, progress, and litigation for each state in real time.
Redistricting Data Hub
The Redistricting Data Hub hosts data for all fifty states (including precinct shape files, historic election results, demographic data, and population projections) and can assist community advocates, the general public, academics, and the media to produce Community of Interest testimony, draw legally admissible district maps, or evaluate the effects of others’ maps. See here for more reports, resources, and tools.
CHARGE Report: Community Redistricting 50-State Report Card
CHARGE, Coalition Hub for Advancing Redistricting & Grassroots Engagement, is a space for groups that organize people in the states and in local communities. The Community Redistricting Report Card reflects on the 2021 redistricting cycle, rating each state’s redistricting process based on community feedback.
Redistricting 101
Fact Sheets
- Redistricting and Use of Census Data
- How Census Data are Used to Apportion the House of Representatives
- Gerrymandering and Racial Equity
- Gerrymandering and Voting Rights
- Gerrymandering and Children
- Gerrymandering and Healthcare
- Gerrymandering and Gun Violence
- Gerrymandering and the Environment
Timelines
- Key 2020 Census Milestones
- Brennan Center for Justice: How Changes to the 2020 Census Timeline Will Impact Redistricting
- Common Cause: State Redistricting Deadlines
- National Conference of State Legislatures: State Redistricting Deadlines
Additional Resources
- Brennan Center for Justice’s redistricting litigation roundup gives a look at legal cases around the country challenging newly adopted redistricting plans.
- Prison Policy Initiative provides an overview on how prison gerrymandering distorts democracy and federal, state, and local solutions to prison gerrymandering.
Organizing Assistance and Coordination
- FRR supported a set of national organizing groups—such as APIAVote, NAACP, and State Voices, among others—to provide trainings, materials, and other support to grassroots groups to help them engage community members effectively in state and local redistricting processes. The national organizing groups collaborated with one another under the coalition CHARGE to coordinate their efforts. The groups are currently completing a 50-state “report card” on community-centered redistricting to be released later this year.
- Redistricting and You (mapping service): Redistricting and You covers 14 FRR priority states, including all five SPLC states, and allows users to compare maps of proposed vs. current district lines to understand how their congressional and state districts may be impacted.
- All About Redistricting (online info hub): All About Redistricting offers information on the procedures, criteria, and opportunities for input on federal and state legislative districts in all 50 states, along with searchable maps of each redistricting plan and case information and documents from lawsuits filed over the 2021-22 redistricting process.
- Brennan Center explainer on Prison Gerrymandering.