Civic Match Expands to Include Non-Profit Workers Seeking Public Service Roles

Since launching in 2024, Work for America’s Civic Match talent matching initiative has sought to connect displaced federal talent with state and local government agencies eager to put their talents to good use.

The Civic Match program is now expanding to offer the same opportunities to nonprofit workers affected by recent cuts at the federal government level.

On July 1, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit announced that more than 20,000 laid-off nonprofit employees are eligible to join Civic Match, and will gain access to state and local government opportunities across 226 cities and 48 states, along with a series of free events and job seeker resources.

Nonprofit workers affected by federal grant cuts “are experts across a variety of fields, with experience in the very jobs that state and local governments are hiring for, including project and program managers, public health workers and communications professionals, to name a few,” a Work for America statement noted.

Broadening Civic Match eligibility to include nonprofit employees deepens the talent pool for state and local government organizations as well.

“Thousands of nonprofit workers are suddenly facing job loss through no fault of their own—many with skills that state and local governments urgently need,” said Caitlin Lewis, executive director of Work for America, in a statement. “This expansion is about making sure that expertise doesn’t go to waste.”

Eligible nonprofit workers who have been impacted by federal grant cuts can create a Civic Match profile here.