For Candidates

A clearer public candidate presence inside CivicCause

CivicCause helps residents follow meetings, causes, issues, leaders, and elections in one place. Candidates can claim their page, complete a public profile, connect to causes and issues, publish statements, and appear in relevant civic moments through system-generated Signals.

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Why candidates use CivicCause

Local voters often care first about issues like housing, safety, transportation, schools, and quality of life.

CivicCause is organized around those issues and the public activity around them, not around campaign hype.

That gives candidates a more structured place to explain where they stand and lets voters see what civic movement is relevant right now.

•Residents often start with issues, not campaign slogans

•Meetings, causes, issues, leaders, and elections are connected in one civic view

•Candidates can add structured public context without turning CivicCause into campaign software

•System-generated Signals help keep relevant civic movement visible without hype

What CivicCause is today

CivicCause is a neutral civic information platform that connects meetings, issues, organizations, leadership, and elections into one clearer public view.

The goal is not to advocate for any candidate or position. The goal is to help residents understand what is happening locally and where candidates fit into that conversation.

It is not campaign automation, ad tech, or persuasion software. It is a structured public-information layer.

What candidates can do now

Claim and complete your presence

Claim your candidate page, review the onboarding checklist, and complete the basic public profile voters see first.

Connect to causes and issues

Link your campaign to causes and tracked issues so voters can understand where your candidacy fits in the civic conversation.

Publish public statements

Add concise public stances that help voters review where you stand in a more structured, comparable format.

Stay visible in civic moments

Candidate Signals can surface upcoming relevant meetings and recent public summaries tied to your linked causes and issues.

How candidate Signals work

Candidate Signals are system-generated. They are not campaign posts and they are not promotional placements.

Today, Signals can surface upcoming relevant meetings and recent public meeting summaries tied to the causes and issues a candidate has linked on CivicCause.

Those Signals appear on public candidate pages, and followers can also see candidate-linked Signals inside their CivicCause account when relevant.

What the candidate workspace includes

Approved candidate access includes a real admin workspace. Candidates can review onboarding steps, complete profile basics, manage issue and cause participation, and see where their campaign shows up publicly.

Candidate admin also includes cause interest and activity insights, showing which causes have the most follower interest and the most recent civic movement, scoped to the candidate's linked causes when available.

This is meant to help candidates understand civic context and public visibility, not to automate campaigning.

City Level

$149

For city council and local races

County Level

$249

For county-level offices

District Level

$249

For school, judicial, and special-district races

State Level

$499

For state-level offices

National Level

$999

For federal and national races

Participation adds structured public issue and cause visibility. Free candidate access still supports claim, basic profile editing, and public candidate presence.

CivicCause remains a neutral platform. Participation does not imply endorsement.

What voters can understand from your page

•Who you are and the office you are running for

•Which causes and issues your campaign is connected to

•Public statements and stances you have published

•Relevant civic meetings and recent summaries surfaced through Signals

•The broader cause activity and follower interest around your campaign context

Start the claim process

We may have already created your candidate page as part of CivicCause election coverage.

Candidate claims happen in a dedicated flow where you select ballot level, office, and candidate page before submitting a request for review.

Start by seeing what’s already there

Start by exploring how residents already see issues, meetings, leaders, and elections inside CivicCause, then claim the candidate page that already represents your campaign.

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