2024 Elections
Vote! It Matters
We are called to meet our requirement as citizens to vote. The people we elect will decide the course of our nation in the coming years. On the international level, these officials will determine if we have peace or war, if we have just or unjust trade policies, and what type of overseas assistance we will provide to desperately poor people. On the national and local levels, they will make major decisions concerning the environment, racism, police reform, immigration, hunger, health, education, housing, transportation, human trafficking, and many other issues.
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Nonprofit Power
Nonprofit organizations - such as our Good Shepherd Partners-in-Mission and other social service organizations - You have a unique and powerful relationship with your community and you have the ability to make a real difference in helping your clients vote.
And rest assured, these efforts are nonpartisan and will not jeopardize your nonprofit, 501c3 status.
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It’s no surprise that many low-income people are skeptical about the impact of their vote, but their voting is essential. Elected officials cater to those who vote.
As a trusted partner of your clients’, you can make a difference in their voter engagement, which in turn will have an even greater impact in their lives. Nonprofit Vote’s 2024 Nonprofit Power Report revealed that all voters engaged by nonprofits saw a 10 percentage point boost in voter turnout; for voters of color specifically, it was a 12 percentage point boost! |
"If you do not speak out, if you do not sound the alarm when it is needed, you will be justly convicted by your silence." Saint Mary Euphrasia |
Register! Learn More!Handy links and information dedicated to helping America's citizens vote:
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Voting Guides for 2024The following voter guides and issue guides are made available to help you and others in the process of discernment on how to vote. Make use of these resources and share them. Prepare and involve yourselves in this year's elections at all levels of government. Get informed. Get inspired. Go vote.
The Catholic bishops of the United States offer a teaching document on exercising our rights and duties as participants in our democracy, Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship (en Español). The bishops also offer additional materials and videos and a series on modeling civility and have a new statement, Pursue What Leads to Peace’: A Christian Response to Rising Threats of Political and Ideological Violence. |
Coalition on Human Needs' Voter Issue Guides help elevate critical conversations about the issues that matter most to our communities.
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From Interfaith Power & Light and Faith in Public Life, a 2024 Faithful Voter Reflection Guide.
From NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, an Equally Sacred Multi-issue Voter Check list (available in English, LARGE Print English, Spanish, Haitian). For access to all their voter resources, click here. |
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Your prayers, your ministry, our mission – all reflect God’s call for justice and love. But more is needed. We must demonstrate our commitment to those we serve, to those living on the margin, to social justice and the social mission of the Catholic Church. |
Pope Francis calls politics “one of the highest forms of love, because it is in the service of the common good.”
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“The Gospel tells us constantly to risk a face-to-face encounter with others, with their physical
presence which challenges us, with their pain and their pleas, with their joy which infects us in
our close and continuous interaction. True faith in the incarnate Son of God is inseparable from
self-giving, from membership in the community, from service, from reconciliation with others.
The Son of God, by becoming flesh, summoned us to the revolution of tenderness.”
—Pope Francis (Evangelii Gaudium 72)
presence which challenges us, with their pain and their pleas, with their joy which infects us in
our close and continuous interaction. True faith in the incarnate Son of God is inseparable from
self-giving, from membership in the community, from service, from reconciliation with others.
The Son of God, by becoming flesh, summoned us to the revolution of tenderness.”
—Pope Francis (Evangelii Gaudium 72)