Civic Activity
Keep your community informed.
Publish timely updates about your organization's work and make them part of the CivicCause civic ecosystem.
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Put your organization on the Civic Map.
Create and control your organization's presence on CivicCause. Help people understand who you are, what you work on, and how your organization participates in civic life.
CivicCause connects organizations to the causes, issues, meetings, and public decisions shaping communities across the Bay Area.
Your organization creates and controls its own CivicCause presence from day one. Tell people who you are, explain what you do, and keep your information current.
CivicCause does not charge organizations to accurately represent themselves.
Add Your Organization
Creating and managing your organization's presence has no cost.
For nonprofits, advocacy organizations, neighborhood and community groups, business associations, civic institutions, and other organizations participating in civic life.
CIVICCAUSE PROFESSIONAL
Don’t Miss the Opportunity to Participate.
Your organization's CivicCause presence remains free.
When your work depends on knowing what's happening across local government, CivicCause Professional adds the monitoring and intelligence needed to stay ahead of relevant civic activity.
CivicCause unifies relevant alerts across fragmented City and County systems and surfaces locally relevant State legislation, so you don’t miss opportunities to participate while they still count.
CivicCause Professional — $199/month or $1,990/year
PUBLISH & PARTICIPATE
Turn your organization's work into civic participation.
Included with CivicCause Professional.
Issues
Give your work a public home.
Create organization-owned Issues that explain what you're working on, why it matters, and what people should know.
Agenda Items
Connect your community to real decisions.
Work directly from upcoming government agenda items. Understand what's coming before public bodies and help your community find opportunities to participate while decisions are still in play.
Positions & Endorsements
Make your organization's position clear.
Publish your organization's position on civic issues and public decisions with your own statement, context, links, and supporting information.
Polls
Ask your community directly.
Create interactive polls around civic questions your organization cares about and give people a simple way to participate.
PUBLISH ONCE. EXTEND YOUR REACH.
Your civic work shouldn't stop at CivicCause.
Included with CivicCause Professional.
Create civic content in CivicCause and take it wherever your audience already is.
Supported publications have their own public pages, direct share links, and embeddable versions for use on your organization's website and across your existing communications.
Share
Give people a direct path to your organization's Civic Activity, Issues, Positions, Endorsements, and Polls.
Embed
Bring your CivicCause content directly onto your organization's website. Interactive content such as Polls remains interactive where supported, so people can participate without leaving the page.
Brand
Your organization's identity travels with the content you publish, alongside clear Powered by CivicCause attribution.
Measure
See how people interact with your published work through CivicCause analytics, including reach and engagement.
YOUR PROFESSIONAL WORKSPACE
See the work in one place.
CivicCause Professional brings current civic activity together with the tools your organization uses to research, publish, participate, and monitor.
Start with what's happening now.
See current civic developments alongside the tools your organization uses throughout the day.
Explore ProfessionalRESEARCH & MONITOR
Know when something needs your attention.
Your organization shouldn't have to monitor separate City and County systems, meeting calendars, agendas, and legislative sources just to know when an issue you care about is moving.
CivicCause Professional brings the relevant activity together.
Included with CivicCause Professional.
Get Relevant Alerts
Monitor the places, government bodies, organizations, causes, and issues connected to your work so important developments are easier to catch while there is still time to respond.
Follow Locally Relevant State Bills
See California legislation with local relevance without sorting through the entire State docket. CivicCause connects relevant State bills to the causes and civic context your organization already follows.
Understand What Changed
Use Daily Updates, Civic Signals, and CivicCause Research to move from an alert to the underlying meetings, issues, organizations, legislation, and public information.
Participate While It Still Counts
When something requires attention, move from monitoring into the appropriate participation channel—including CivicCause’s Organization participation tools where applicable.
Monitor what’s moving. Understand why it matters. Participate while the opportunity is still open.
Explore Research & MonitoringUSE CASE
Find the opportunity to participate before the outcome is determined.
When a San José City Council agenda item involving downtown parking meters came before the Council, CivicCause provided a direct path for people to understand the item and submit written public comment.
44 written comments were submitted through CivicCause before the Council considered the item.
The Council ultimately voted unanimously to defer the item.
CivicCause doesn't determine the outcome. It helps organizations and communities find the opportunity to participate before the outcome is determined.
PRICING
One subscription. Everything in CivicCause Professional.
$199
/ month
or
$1,990 / year — Save $398 annually
CivicCause Professional provides access across the San Francisco Bay Area.
Publish & Participate
Civic Activity, Issues, Agenda Items, Positions & Endorsements, Polls, sharing, embeds, and analytics.
Research & Monitor
Daily Updates, Watch Scopes, Civic Signals, Locally Relevant State Bills, research, intelligence, monitoring, and alert tools.
Your organization's CivicCause presence remains available without a Professional subscription.
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