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The All-America City Award recognizes communities that leverage civic engagement, collaboration, inclusiveness and innovation to successfully address local issues.

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Resources

The National Civic League has pulled together a wealth of resources to support local communities as they explore applying for the All-America City Award.  Review the materials below for key resources to help you better understand the application process, what we mean by engagement and to discover other tools to help you better understand areas of focus within the 2023 application.   

As you fill out the application, it may be helpful to consult the following materials:

All-America City Award Related:

  1. The All-America City Experience: Brief informational video on the award program
  2. Previous All-America City presentations
  3. Previous All-America City Award Event Program
  4. Previous Applications:

 Engagement Resources:

  1. National Civic League’s Civic Index to help evaluate your civic infrastructure
  2. Webinar: The ABCs of Inclusive and Equitable Engagement
  3. National Civic Leagues ’s All-America Conversations Toolkit

 National Civic Review Articles on Civic Engagement:

  1. Building a Quantitative Measure of Civic Infrastructure
  2. The Pleasure Principle: Considering Happiness, Delight, and Joy in Democracy and Community Engagement
  3. Engaged Communities are Thriving Communities
  4. Hampton, Virginia: Civic Engagement as a Management Strategy
  5. Dubuque: Creating a Culture of Engagement

 Theme-Specific Resources:

  1. Civic Engagement in American Climate Policy: Collaborative Models
  2. Climate Change as a Civic Challenge: Collaborative Models for American Policy and Practice
  3. Webinar: Embedding Engagement in Climate Policy
  4. Webinar: Taking Climate Actions at the Local Level
  5. Climate Action Plans
  6. Environmental Justice Resources
  7. Climate Change Education Resources
  8. City Resilience Framework
  9. Urban Sustainability Directors Network
  10. AIAI: Community Resilience Design Resources
  11. Thriving Together Springboard: Thriving Natural World

All-America City made me so hopeful about America’s future - a total antidote to the negativity that can sometimes corrode our civic life.

Curtis Johnson, Executive Editor of Citiscope

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Webinars, Interviews and Speeches

This page includes webinars, interviews and speeches covering promising practices around the country. The free monthly Promising Practices Webinar series highlights successful projects around the country with speakers from cities implementing creative strategies for civic engagement. These webinars are free and open to anyone who is interested in creating stronger communities. The National Civic League's interview series includes conversations with elected officials, civic engagement experts, figures important to our history and others. Recorded speeches allow you to re-live the keynote addresses of past All-America City awards events and conferences.

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