Resources
Below you will find a variety of resources meant to help constituents engage with the issues, their community, and data of interest.
Issue Resources
Listed below are resources available to engage with the issues. While Congressional Communities™ does not lobby or take official positions, we do want to encourage active civic participation.
- Agriculture and Food >
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- Armed Forces and National Security >
- Arts >
- Arts, Culture, Religion >
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues >
- Commerce >
- Crime and Law Enforcement >
- Culture >
- Economics and Public Finance >
- Education >
- Emergency Management >
- Energy >
- Environmental Protection >
- Families >
- Finance and Financial Sector >
- Foreign Trade and International Finance >
- Geographic Areas, Entities, and Committees >
- Government Operations and Politics >
- Health >
- Housing and Community Development >
- Immigration >
- International Affairs >
- Labor and Employment >
- Law >
- Native Americans >
- Private Legislation >
- Public Lands and Natural Resources >
- Religion >
- Science, Technology, Communications >
- Social Sciences and History >
- Social Welfare >
- Sports and Recreation >
- Taxation >
- Transportation and Public Works >
- Water Resources Development >
If you are a researcher, journalist, or someone else with data of interest to Congressional Communities and would like to collaborate with us, please contact us.
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Participant Resources
Once a CC reaches a modest threshold number of participants, here is where you’ll find everything you need to participate in your Congressional Community, including recent poll results, community leadership, and the schedule of upcoming meetings.
Champion Resources
Here is where you’ll find everything you need to start your own Congressional Community, including checklists for what you need to bring to meetings, handouts to explain the idea, community roles, and sign up sheets to keep track of who’s coming to your meetings!
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Test Resource
Data Resources
Here is where you'll find data organized by Congressional Communities for the use of interested journalists and researchers, including community demographic data, community boundary data, and more.
- Data.Gov
- U.S. Census Datasets
- California Open Data Portal
- Texas Open Data Portal
- Florida Geospatial Open Data
- Pew Research Dataset Downloads
- USAFacts.org
- ProximityOne - Congressional Communities