Advocacy & Civic Engagement
Using advocacy and civic engagement to build political and community power.
Investing in Our Political Futures
MJF’s Advocacy work includes making demands of policymakers that are rooted in community demands. Our civic engagement work includes educating our communities about the political process and ensuring we are represented through census work, getting out the vote, and the voting process through development of voter guides. MJF also partners with other civic engagement organizations to hold educational forums on the civic engagement and voting process.
Updates
Check here for general updates on our civic engagement work.
Florida’s targeting of CAIR, which carries profound consequences for Muslim communities in Florida and across the country. Persecuting the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization sends a dangerous message that Muslim advocacy itself is suspect. This designation threatens CAIR’s ability, and by extension CAIR Florida, to provide essential legal representation, advocacy, and community support to Floridians. This targeting also affects the broader network of Muslim advocacy and membership-based organizations nationwide who have members or partners operating in Florida. Furthermore, at a time of escalating political violence toward Muslim communities, stripping Florida Muslims in the South of access to national advocates would deny countless individuals and families critical institutional support. This should alarm any national advocacy and membership-based group that works to defend the rights of targeted community members. If states can create new designation regimes for the purpose of preventing national and local advocacy organizations from representing or supporting particular communities, it establishes a dangerous precedent. Such a framework would threaten the ability of national advocacy and membership-based organizations across issue areas to fulfill their missions.