QR Business Card
A pocket-sized paper edition for outreach tables, community spaces and everyday sharing. The QR code gives people a direct path to The People's Portal.
A practical starting point
From “What can I do?” to one real action.
You do not have to understand every level of government, follow politics every day, or know the right office before you begin. Pick the issue that matters to you, find the level where action belongs, and start with one achievable step.
YOURSELF
Learn about the issue and understand your options.
NEIGHBORHOOD
Connect with neighbors, groups and community resources.
LOCAL / COUNTY
Find meetings, officials, departments and county agencies.
STATE
Find Michigan representatives, agencies and legislation.
FEDERAL
Contact federal representatives and follow national issues.
Physical Civic Keys
Four formats. One public portal.
The current plan includes two paper formats and two wearable pendant formats. Every version opens the same essential civic information—the format changes, not the access. Premium materials will not put civic information behind a paywall.
Bilingual Bookmark
A paper bookmark with one side in English and the other side translated into Spanish—designed for libraries, schools, welcome packets and community programs.
PVC Civic Key Pendant
A lightweight, durable plastic PVC edition. Users can attach the Civic Key pendant to a keychain or wear it on a bracelet.
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Pendant mockup coming later
Metal Civic Key Pendant
A durable premium edition for supporters who want a longer-lasting Civic Key. Users can choose to carry it as a keychain or wear it as a bracelet pendant.
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Pendant mockup coming later
Buy one. Give back.
Choose a Civic Key—and help strengthen a cause you care about.
The PVC Civic Key will launch at a $10 introductory price, and the Metal Civic Key will retail for $20. We plan to donate 25% of the proceeds from each purchase to an organization chosen by the customer.
A separate portion of proceeds can also support the production and distribution of more Civic Keys in community spaces, helping more people reach free civic information.
Your purchase can support both a chosen organization and broader community access.
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25% to your chosen organization
Select a participating organization you want your purchase to support.
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More Civic Keys in the community
Additional support can help place Civic Keys in libraries, programs, events and other community spaces.
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The same free public information
Purchasing a physical Civic Key never changes access to the Portal's civic resources.
Before sales begin, purchase details will identify participating organizations and explain donation timing, fulfillment and how the community-distribution portion is allocated.
For organizations
Give people one doorway instead of another stack of papers.
Civic Key can serve as a simple bridge between the people an organization serves and civic information they may need next.
LibrariesSchools & CollegesWorkforce ProgramsNonprofitsNeighborhood GroupsCommunity CentersLocal BusinessesPublic Agencies
Potential uses
- ✓ Community events and resource fairs
- ✓ Welcome and resource packets
- ✓ Civic and first-time voter education
- ✓ Volunteer and community engagement
- ✓ Neighborhood outreach
- ✓ Public-information campaigns
Organization contact
Interested in sharing Civic Key?
Contact The People's Portal about outreach materials, distribution, partnerships, corrections, or accessibility needs.
Future organization impact layer
📊 Anonymous Community Impact
Organizations could see how shared Civic Keys connect people with community resources—using generalized totals and broad community trends instead of named civic profiles.
1,284People connected through shared materials
63Communities reached
4,816Anonymous resource connections
1,907Visits to official public sources
Illustrative numbers only. These are interface examples, not actual Civic Key participation data or organization results.
See where resources are connecting
Broad community-level summaries could help partners understand reach and find resource gaps without identifying an individual person.
📍PontiacHousing + civic services
📍SouthfieldVoting + public meetings
📍DetroitFood + family support
Example categories demonstrate the dashboard concept; they are not measured community activity.
Turn connection into useful impact
- ✓ Show how many people reached trusted resource pages
- ✓ Learn which resource categories communities seek most
- ✓ Identify places that may need more outreach or updated information
- ✓ Share aggregate impact with partners and funders
Privacy is part of the design
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Aggregate totals
No public names or individual activity histories.
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No political profiling
No voting choices, party preferences, or inferred beliefs.
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Minimum reporting thresholds
Small groups should be combined or withheld to reduce re-identification risk.
Anonymous Key & Referral
Help without becoming the center of attention.
Future physical keys can use random identifiers instead of people's names. Share a key, bookmark, card or portal link and help someone discover a resource without needing recognition or credit.
EXAMPLE CIVIC KEY
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A future live system should define neutral referral/action metrics, prevent duplicate or automated inflation, and never reward activity based on a candidate, party, political position or voting choice.
Small actions still count
You may never know what happens after someone scans the key.
That person may become a voter, volunteer, public-meeting attendee, poll worker, neighborhood organizer—or simply a better-informed member of their community.
Carry it. Share it. Sponsor it. Use it.
One key can open the door.
You don't have to change the entire country today. Start with one issue, one resource, one phone call, one meeting or one neighbor.