One of the cities making measurable progress by engaging the community to address climate change is Boulder, Colorado, which recently announced that it achieved a 24% reduction in greenhouse gas...
It sounds pretty obvious: you learn something more deeply when you have an emotional connection to it. That’s not just intuition but the conclusion of a whole body of neuroscience...
There is new momentum behind the Building Civic Bridges Act (BCBA), a bill that would help communities address the root causes of division in America. This month, the League’s Center...
We love a good courtroom drama, especially when it features a fictional jury of our peers. But it turns out that jury duty has real-world upsides, too. According to research...
Tulsa, OK, Mayor G.T. Bynum was elected Chair of the Board of Directors for the National Civic League at its annual meeting in mid-November. The Board also elected Denver City...
The newly inaugurated class of the ICMA Racial Equity Leadership Institute met last week and discussed the increasing challenges of implementing DEI programs in the face of escalating pushback on...
Across the country a handful of communities are quietly revolutionizing the way governments and citizens work together by incorporating an innovative model called a citizen assembly into their public engagement....
Editor’s Note: Doug Croft was a key member of the team that brought the All-America City Award to Thomasville, North Carolina, in 2013. Since then, he has remained deeply involved...
There’s no end to the creative ways for supporting democracy and making voting more pleasant, and DJs at the Polls is just one of many recent democracy innovations aiming to...
