Model City Charter, 8th Edition

August 8, 2014

[fusion_text] Defining Good Government in a New Millennium The eighth edition of the Model City Charter strongly endorses the council-manager structure of municipal government that was first proposed in 1915...

National Civic Review

August 8, 2014

Making Citizen Democracy Work The National Civic Review, the quarterly journal of the National Civic League, is one of the nation’s oldest civic affairs journals. Founded in 1912, the Review...

The Community Visioning and Strategic Planning Handbook

August 7, 2014

National Civic League Press, Third Printing The handbook lays out the framework of the successful community planning processes used by the National Civic League and others across the country. These...

The Civic Index, 3rd Edition

August 7, 2014

Measuring Your Community’s Civic Health Successful communities understand that addressing challenges requires different skills than those employed by previous generations of problem solvers. For communities to reinvent themselves and move...

2015 All-America City Awards to focus on Vulnerable Boys and Young Men of Color

August 4, 2014

Photo by Karina Furhman

Membership Application

February 24, 2014

Please download the application form here.

2015 All America City Application

February 23, 2014

Please download the application.

Pacesetters: Baltimore, Maryland

July 31, 2012

(From the Campaign for Grade-Level-Reading website.) Baltimore became one of the first cities to start using chronic absence data to drive policy and practice, and it has demonstrated several innovative...

A Message for Aurora

July 23, 2012

The National Civic League sends a message of deep sympathy and admiration to the All-America City of Aurora, Colorado. You have demonstrated this past weekend, as you did in 2008...

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