The League’s Civic Index: Measuring Your Community’s Capacity to Solve Problems and Thrive

Success Stories

We’ve redesigned the National Civic League website. Link here to give it a spin. We wanted to make it more user friendly and emphasize community success stories. Most of our...

Coping with Scarcity: The Lynwood Sports Association and Mobile Recreation Team

One of the biggest challenges facing communities in these tough economic times is just paying for basic services. Things we used to take for granted like a city baseball program...

All-America City Finalist: Bowling Green, Kentucky

Battling brain drain, revitalizing historic downtown, serving at-risk youth… Watch live streaming video from freespeechtv at livestream.com

All-America City 2010: Lynwood, California

Reducing crime, providing assistance to homeowners in need of repairs and bringing sports activities to more young people in the city… Watch live streaming video from freespeechtv at livestream.com

All-America City 2010: Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Designing an urban boulevard, revitalizing “Main Street” and creating new recreational opportunities for young people… Watch live streaming video from freespeechtv at livestream.com

All-America City 2010 Presentations: Gastonia, North Carolina

Re-vitalizing housing, raising money for nonprofits and improving graduating rates in local schools… Gastonia, North Carolina: Watch live streaming video from freespeechtv at livestream.com

All-America City 2010: Salisbury, Maryland’s presentation

Revitalizing housing, providing for the needs of the homeless and an innovative youth leadership program…. Watch live streaming video from freespeechtv at livestream.com

All-America Stories: Lynwood, CA # 2

All-America Stories: Lynwood, Ca. # 1

Wow. We are getting a good response to our All-America Stories contest. Some very nice vids. Here’s one from Lynwood, California.