Media Kit

Democracy Week

Media kit

Logos, editable graphics, sample posts, and the words we use ourselves, for Democracy Week and for the October 8 Forum in San Francisco. Take any of it, change it, make it sound like you. No approval process, no permission needed.

Our headline event this year is the SF Innovators & Investors for Democracy Forum, Thursday, October 8 at UC Law SF. The best thing you can do for it is send it to the funders, founders, and civic leaders you know who should be in the room. Everything you need for that is below.

We run alongside Tech Week in both cities on purpose. The technology and culture coming out of San Francisco and Los Angeles already shapes how people find information, who they trust, and what feels possible. It can strengthen and revitalize our democratic republic, or it can keep weakening it until it collapses. Right now some of that is being decided by defaults, and some by a small group of people who are vocally against democracy.

We need more people in the room, and more people building things that strengthen our democracy. Not every Democracy Week event has to be about tech. The ones that are, we encourage to cross-post on the Tech Week calendar.

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The October 8 Forum

SF Innovators & Investors for Democracy Forum

A one-day convening for funders, family offices, foundations, philanthropic advisors, corporate leaders, civic and civictech entrepreneurs, and civic leaders, on how capital and innovation can help revitalize our democracy. Cross-partisan by belief and design. Co-hosted with the Center for Constitutional Democracy at UC Law SF, as part of SF Democracy Week.

  • When: Thursday, October 8, 10am to 4pm
  • Where: UC Law SF in the Civic Center, a few minutes from City Hall and BART. The room is sent with registration confirmations.
  • Tickets: tax deductible, processed through our fiscal sponsor, the California Doughnut Economics Coalition. Space is limited and we are balancing the room across the spectrum and across roles.
  • Link to share: democracyweek.net/sf-forum

Register for October 8

Key messages

Use these in your own words. Pick the one or two that fit your audience.

  • Democracy is economic infrastructure. Every term sheet signed in the Bay Area depends on functioning courts, fair competition, rule of law, and public investment in research and education. It is much harder to build great companies inside a failing country.
  • AI raises the stakes. On its current path it could hollow out our democracy. Used well, it could help build one that works better than anything we have had. The people funding and building it have more say in which way it goes than most.
  • Civic work needs startup energy and better capital. Grant cycles are slow, venture returns are hard, and a lot of good work dies in the gap. The Forum looks at recoverable grants, evergreen vehicles, program-related investments, blended structures, and a democracy fund thesis.
  • Fewer panels, more work. Small groups take on the five pillars of the First Principles and leave with draft action plans. Lightning talks and showcase tables put civic projects in front of the people who can back them.
  • Cross-partisan by design. Right, left, center, and none of the above. Off-stage conversations run under the Chatham House Rule, with a non-solicitation rule, so people can talk openly.
  • Speakers and conveners include Chris Yeh (Blitzscaling Ventures), Nicole Ozer (Electronic Frontier Foundation), Melissa Hooper (Center for Constitutional Democracy at UC Law SF), Peter Lupoff (Beatrice Advisors), Micah Weinberg (Carnegie California), Sarah Bonk (Business for America), Dusie Cassata (Solution Citizen), John Gable (AllSides), and Nicole Garzino (Braver Angels), and more, with more being confirmed.

Ways to help the Forum

Send it to one person

A funder, founder, family office, or civic leader who should be there. A personal note does more than any post. The email sample below is written for this.

Use the email sample

Propose a talk or table

Building a tool, running a cross-partisan campaign, or testing an approach worth copying? Put it in front of this room.

Propose a session

Volunteer on the day

Check-in, setup, notetaking, photos, and keeping the working groups on time.

Volunteer for the Forum

Sponsor seats

Sponsorships cover seats for civic organizers and founders who couldn’t otherwise attend. Tax deductible.

See sponsorship options

Sample text for the Forum

Swap the bracketed parts and cut what doesn’t fit. On LinkedIn, type @Democracy Week yourself and pick the page from the list, since a pasted tag won’t link.

LinkedIn post template ideas (adjust

On Thursday, October 8, [I’ll be / [Organization] will be] at the SF Innovators & Investors for Democracy Forum at UC Law SF.

It’s a one-day working session for funders, family offices, foundations, founders, and civic leaders on a question tech doesn’t spend enough time on: what it takes to keep our democracy, and the economy built on it, working.

Every company and fund in the Bay Area depends on functioning courts, fair competition, rule of law, and public investment in research and education. Those foundations have been eroding for years, and AI is raising the stakes. The people funding and building the technology have more say in where this goes than most.

The day is cross-partisan by design, co-hosted by Democracy Week and the Center for Constitutional Democracy at UC Law SF. Fewer panels, more working sessions, and showcase tables for civic projects worth backing. Speakers include Chris Yeh, Nicole Ozer, Melissa Hooper, Peter Lupoff, Sarah Bonk, John Gable, and more.

If you invest, fund, or build, come join us: https://democracyweek.net/sf-forum/

#DemocracyWeek #DemocracyWeekSF

Personal email to a funder, founder, or civic leader

Subject: October 8: Innovators & Investors for Democracy Forum

Hi [name],

I thought of you for this. On Thursday, October 8, Democracy Week and the Center for Constitutional Democracy at UC Law SF are hosting the SF Innovators & Investors for Democracy Forum, 10am to 4pm at UC Law SF.

It brings together funders, family offices, foundations, corporate leaders, civic entrepreneurs, and civic leaders from across the political spectrum to work on how capital and innovation can help revitalize our democracy. The day includes:

  • How democracy and the economy support each other, and what it costs when either slips
  • Working groups on five pillars of a healthy democratic republic, ending with draft action plans
  • Lightning talks and showcase tables from civic projects worth backing
  • New ways to fund civic work: recoverable grants, evergreen vehicles, program-related investments, and blended structures

Off-stage conversations run under the Chatham House Rule with a non-solicitation rule, so it’s a good room for honest conversation. Space is limited and they are balancing the room across the spectrum and across roles.

Details and registration: https://democracyweek.net/sf-forum/

Would you join [me / us]?

[Your name]

WhatsApp, Signal, and group chats

Thursday Oct 8, 10am to 4pm at UC Law SF: the Innovators & Investors for Democracy Forum. Funders, founders, and civic leaders from across the spectrum, working on how capital and innovation can help revitalize our democracy. [I’m going / We’re a partner]. If you fund, build, or are concerned about these issues, join us: https://democracyweek.net/sf-forum/

Instagram caption

Oct 8 in San Francisco: the Innovators & Investors for Democracy Forum at UC Law SF.

Funders, founders, and civic leaders from right, left, and center, spending a day on how capital and innovation can help revitalize our democracy. Working sessions, lightning talks, and civic projects worth backing.

Details at democracyweek.net/sf-forum

@democracyweek #DemocracyWeek #DemocracyWeekSF

One paragraph for a newsletter

SF Innovators & Investors for Democracy Forum, Thursday, October 8, 10am to 4pm at UC Law SF. A one-day, cross-partisan convening for funders, family offices, foundations, founders, and civic leaders on how capital and innovation can help revitalize our democracy. Co-hosted by Democracy Week and the Center for Constitutional Democracy at UC Law SF. Details and registration: https://democracyweek.net/sf-forum/

Follow, tag, and reshare us

Our LinkedIn and Instagram accounts are new, so every follow and reshare counts for more right now. Tag Democracy Week when you post and we will reshare you. We need these conversations to be more visible, from more voices, so more people see the momentum and show up.

LinkedIn

Follow the page, then repost our latest with a line of your own. A repost with your own comment reaches more people than a like. Tag @Democracy Week in your own posts.

Follow on LinkedIn

Instagram

Follow the account, share our recent posts to your story, and tag @democracyweek in your own posts and stories so we can reshare them.

Follow on Instagram

Recent posts to reshare

Our latest on LinkedIn

Repost the Forum announcement, or whichever one fits your network best.

See recent LinkedIn posts

Our latest on Instagram

Tap the paper plane under any post to add it to your story, and tag @democracyweek in those and other posts.

See recent Instagram posts

From David Nabti

David is posting about the week and the Forum from his own accounts too.

LinkedIn, Instagram, and less often X

Template files

Ready to use on your event page, slides, flyers, posts, or coverage. If something you need is missing, ask and we will make it.

Posters, flyers, and social graphics

Editable templates for social posts, printable flyers, and signage. Duplicate one, drop in your event name, date, and venue, export, and go. Works on the free Canva plan.

Open the template pack

Logo on Canva

The logo on its own, ready to pull into your event graphics, decks, and social posts.

Open in Canva

Logo files

On Google Drive in several formats, including transparent versions for dark backgrounds and high resolution files for print.

Open the logo folder

Sample text for Democracy Week

Starting points, not scripts. Swap the bracketed parts for your own event, date, and link, cut whatever doesn’t fit, and adjust for your voice and your community. Each one has a button to copy the text.

LinkedIn: announcing your own event

We are hosting [event name] on [date], as part of Democracy Week.

Democracy Week runs Oct 5 to 11 in San Francisco and Oct 12 to 18 in Los Angeles, the same weeks as Tech Week in both cities. It is cross-partisan and decentralized. Anyone can host an event, and everything gets promoted through one shared calendar. The headline event is the SF Innovators & Investors for Democracy Forum on October 8 at UC Law SF.

[One or two sentences on your event: what it is, who it is for, and why you are doing it.]

The overlap with Tech Week is deliberate. The tools built in these two cities already shape how people find information, who they trust, and what they think is possible. Tech is values neutral. The companies and leaders building it sometimes aren’t. Tech, along with our organizations, culture, and habits, can strengthen our democracy or weaken it, and more of us need to be part of those decisions.

Details and registration: [your event link]

Everything else happening that week: https://democracyweek.net

#DemocracyWeek

LinkedIn: inviting other people in

There is an election on November 3, and democracy itself is one of the things on the ballot. It also needs care and attention the other 51 weeks of the year.

Democracy Week is a cross-partisan week of events, Oct 5 to 11 in San Francisco and Oct 12 to 18 in Los Angeles, running alongside Tech Week in both cities. Panels, workshops, hackathons, film nights, dinners, dance parties. In SF, the Innovators & Investors for Democracy Forum on October 8 brings funders, founders, and civic leaders together at UC Law SF.

The timing with Tech Week is on purpose. Technology is already a major force acting on our democracy, through AI, through platforms, and through where investment goes. Right now it’s contributing more to breakdown than to revitalization. We need more people working to protect and strengthen democracy, for our rights and a government accountable to the people, and for the economy and innovation ecosystem that depend on it.

[Organization] is in. If you have been looking for something to do besides refresh the news or tune out politics altogether, this is a good one.

Host an event, it takes about two minutes: https://democracyweek.net/add-events/

Come to something already on the calendar: https://lu.ma/democracy

Join the Forum on Oct 8: https://democracyweek.net/sf-forum/

#DemocracyWeek

Email to your list or your network

Subject: Democracy Week, Oct 5 to 18 in SF and LA

Hi [name],

Democracy Week runs Oct 5 to 11 in San Francisco and Oct 12 to 18 in Los Angeles, the same weeks as Tech Week in each city. It is cross-partisan and decentralized. Organizations and individuals host their own events, in whatever format suits them, and everything gets promoted through one shared calendar.

The overlap with Tech Week is intentional. Technology is already shaping our democracy, for better and for worse, and there is a lot of work to do to make it strengthen the system rather than wear it down. Plenty of events have nothing to do with tech, and that is fine too.

[Organization] is taking part. We are hosting [event] on [date] and would love to see you there: [your event link]

A few other ways to join:

  • The SF Innovators & Investors for Democracy Forum, Oct 8 at UC Law SF, for funders, founders, and civic leaders: https://democracyweek.net/sf-forum/
  • Host your own event, it takes about two minutes: https://democracyweek.net/add-events/
  • Browse and subscribe to the full calendar: https://lu.ma/democracy
  • The Democracy Accelerator, for people building tools, campaigns, and institutions for a stronger democratic republic: https://democracyweek.net/accelerator/
  • The cross-partisan First Principles, drafted in the open and better for the disagreement: https://democracyweek.net/principles/
  • Follow along on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/democracyweek) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/DemocracyWeek)

Happy to answer questions or connect you with the organizers, or you can reach them directly at partner@democracyweek.net.

[Your name]

WhatsApp, Signal, and group chats

Democracy Week: Oct 5 to 11 in SF, Oct 12 to 18 in LA, same weeks as Tech Week in both cities. Cross-partisan, decentralized, anyone can host.

We are hosting [event] on [date]: [your event link]

Everything on the calendar: https://lu.ma/democracy

The Oct 8 Forum in SF, for funders, founders, and civic leaders: https://democracyweek.net/sf-forum/

Want to run your own? It takes about two minutes: https://democracyweek.net/add-events/

How to describe Democracy Week

For newsletters, event pages, press releases, and the bottom of a program. Copy whichever length fits the space.

One line

Democracy Week is a cross-partisan week of events in San Francisco (Oct 5 to 11) and Los Angeles (Oct 12 to 18), running alongside Tech Week in both cities.

Short paragraph

Democracy Week is a cross-partisan, decentralized set of events running Oct 5 to 11, 2026 in San Francisco and Oct 12 to 18, 2026 in Los Angeles, the same weeks as Tech Week in each city. Anyone can host: panels, workshops, hackathons, film nights, dinners, dance parties. The headline event is the SF Innovators & Investors for Democracy Forum on October 8 at UC Law SF. The aim is to bring people from across the political spectrum together to talk in good faith and take action on the democratic republic we share, and to open up more conversation about how technology can strengthen our democracy rather than weaken it. More at democracyweek.net.

Longer version

Democracy Week is a cross-partisan, decentralized set of events running Oct 5 to 11, 2026 in San Francisco and Oct 12 to 18, 2026 in Los Angeles, alongside Tech Week in each city. Organizations and individuals host their own events, in whatever format works for them, and the week connects them to new audiences and to each other.

The timing is deliberate. Technology is one of the strongest forces acting on democracy today, through AI, through platforms, and through where investment goes, and Democracy Week exists in part to get more of the people building it working on how it can strengthen and revitalize the democratic republic instead of wearing it down. Many events have nothing to do with tech, and those matter just as much.

The headline event is the SF Innovators & Investors for Democracy Forum on October 8, co-hosted with the Center for Constitutional Democracy at UC Law SF, a one-day convening for funders, founders, and civic leaders on how capital and innovation can help revitalize our democracy. Alongside the events, Democracy Week runs the Democracy Accelerator for people building tools, campaigns, and institutions that strengthen the democratic republic, and is drafting a set of shared First Principles across party lines, building toward a Democracy Impact Assessment that innovators, investors, and citizens can use to guide their decisions.

Democracy Week is fiscally sponsored by the California Doughnut Economics Coalition. More at democracyweek.net.

Dates worth putting in a calendar

Things that help

If your organization wants to do more than post once, here is what makes a difference, roughly in order of effort. Pick one from any column and you have already helped.

Ten minutes

  • Follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram, and ask a few colleagues to do the same.
  • Repost one of our recent posts with a line of your own.
  • Send the Forum email to one funder or founder who should be in the room.
  • Put a line and a link in your next newsletter.
  • Add “Part of Democracy Week, Oct 5 to 18” (or adapted for SF or LA) to your email signature for the month.

An afternoon

  • Add an event, including one you were already planning. Existing events count.
  • Volunteer at the Forum on October 8, or at other events during the week.
  • Put the Democracy Week logo and a link on your event page.
  • Cross-post tech-related civic and democracy events to the Tech Week calendar. That is where the audience we most want to reach already is.
  • Offer a venue, a bar tab, a projector, or photography and video support.
  • Send us photos and a couple of lines afterward so we can share what happened.

A modest commitment

  • Come on as a partner and bring your community in.
  • Sponsor seats at the Forum for civic organizers and founders who couldn’t otherwise attend.
  • Co-host with an organization that sits somewhere else on the political spectrum. These are the events people remember.
  • Bring your builders. A hackathon, a demo night, or a working session on a real democracy problem beats another panel about the problem.
  • Mentor a team in the Democracy Accelerator.
  • Read and push back on the First Principles draft. Disagreement is more useful than agreement here.
  • Start a Democracy Week in your own city.

When to post

  • Now: announce that you are taking part, before you have every detail nailed down. For the Forum, send personal notes this week to the people you most want there.
  • A week out: post your event with the registration link.
  • Two days out: a short reminder, and a direct message to the ten people you most want in the room. For the Forum, that is October 6.
  • Day of: a photo and a line about what is happening, tagged @Democracy Week.
  • After: what came out of it, and what you are doing next. This is the post most people skip, and it does the most work.
  • Use it on anything connected to the week: event pages, slides, flyers, signage, social posts, press coverage.
  • Keep the colors and proportions as they are, and give it some breathing room. The two circles are the blue and the red of America and of our two main political parties. The purple is the overlap, which is bigger than it looks and is where most Americans actually live, whichever party they end up voting for.
  • Hosting an event does not make you a partner organization, and listing your event does not mean we endorse your positions. “Part of Democracy Week” is the right phrasing either way.
  • If you want something that is not on this page or in the folder above, ask us and we will do our best.

Questions, or want to talk it through with someone on the team? Email partner@democracyweek.net, join a planning call for SF or LA, or grab a time for a short call.