A toolkit with ideas for working with your local officials on immigrant integration.

• Promoting immigrant integration: Ideas for working together with your local officials
• Working with Local Government on Immigrant Integration
• Community Treasures: Recognizing the Contributions of Older Immigrants and Refugees
• Pursuing Democracy's Promise: Newcomer Civic Participation in America
• Lessons Learned About Civic Participation Among Immigrants
• Civic Inequalities: Volunteerism and Community Organizations in California
• New Voices at the Civic Table: How Six Human Service Organizations are Supporting the Civic Engagement of Community Members
• Measuring the Impact of Civic Engagement: Tracking Outcomes in Health, Education, and Economic Security
• The House We All Live In: A Report on Immigrant Civic Integration
• Nonprofit Service Organizations and Civic Engagement: Addressing Challenges and Moving Forward
• Inspiring Leadership in Immigrant Communities
• Building a Race and Immigration Dialogue in the Global Economy: A Popular Education Resource for Immigrant and Refugee Community Organizers
• Thinking Beyond “Increased Participation”: Integrating Civics and Adult ESOL
• Questions: A Powerful Tool for Self-Advocacy
• A Community Builder's Toolkit: 15 Tools for Creating Healthy, Productive Interracial/Multicultural Communities (Available in Chinese, Korean, Tagalog, English, Spanish, and Vietnamese)
• Standards of Excellence in Civic Engagement: How Public Agencies Can Learn from the Community, Use What They Learn, and Demonstrate that Public Knowledge Matters
• Planning Public Forums: Questions to Guide Local Officials
• ABA Article on Nonprofits and Lobbying
• DC Bar Pro Bono Center, “A Nonprofit’s Guide to Lobbying and Political Activity”
• Fighting Fire with Fire: Lessons from the Laotian Organizing Project's First Campaign
• AFJ Guide, “The Rules of the Game: A Guide to Election-Related Activities for 501(c)(3) Organizations”
• Rock the Naturalized Vote: The Size and Location of the Recently Naturalized Voting Age Citizen Population
• Engaging the Emerging Majority: The Case for Voter Registration in 2012 and Beyond
• Mobilize the Immigrant Vote Toolkit for Movement Building Electoral Organizing
• Interactive Map: The Untapped Electoral Power of Latinos and Citizens-in-Waiting
• Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote
• New Citizens Vote: A Curriculum About Voting and Civic Engagement
• Register to Vote (Online Form)
• Information on Conducting a Voter Registration Drive