Engage the Community in Spending Federal $

August 23, 2021

With federal dollars filtering down through CARES, ARPA and a future infrastructure bill, this is an ideal opportunity for cities and counties to engage residents and other community stakeholders in...

Good News for Democracy

August 23, 2021

The late magazine writer Janet Malcolm once began an essay with the following sentence: “Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is...

Addressing Secondary Impacts of COVID: Oakridge Neighborhood

August 23, 2021

For over a year the world has read daily headlines containing the latest numbers of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic. While much of the focus is on...

Fall 2021 Issue of National Civic Review

August 12, 2021

The Fall Edition of the National Civic Review features 5 policy briefs created by Healing through Policy: Creating Pathways to Racial Justice. The new initiative—a collaboration between The National Collaborative for Health Equity, The...

The News about News Deserts

July 28, 2021

You’ve probably heard of the term “food deserts,” generally speaking, an area of a town or city where there are few, if any, places for people to buy nutritious food....

Civic Illiteracy Fuels Misinformation

July 28, 2021

Schoolhouse Rock educated a generation of Americans through short films on topics from grammar to science and math. Most notably, the ‘America’ series offered education (and entertainment) on a broad...

TEMPO Engages Disconnected Youth in Tallahassee

July 26, 2021

70 young people in Tallahassee just received a new opportunity to succeed with the latest graduation of TEMPO, a program aimed at improving the education and job prospects of disconnected...

Revitalizing Democracy (starting locally)

June 28, 2021

“Objective: To create a robust, functioning network of cities and organizations dedicated to promoting and fortifying democratic participation and civic engagement at a local level. We want to build a...

Melissa Robinson, Black Health Care Coalition, Receives 2021 RWJF-NCL Health Equity Award

June 28, 2021

In a year like no other, our country has seen an unprecedented increase in, and awareness of, health inequities in nearly all aspects of our society. With a mission to...

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