National Civic Review

One of the Nation’s Oldest and Most Respected Journals of Civic Affairs

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• Community-Led Efforts to Create Safe Communities: Diversity, Dialogues, and Directions for Moving Forward

  Civic engagement opportunities around policing and public safety are problematic, promising, and faced with many obstacles, but community members and public officials know they need each other to create communities where everyone feels safe.

• Building Trust and Enhancing Resiliency: A Case Study on the Greater Columbus Community Trust

  In late 2015, community leaders in Columbus came together to develop a planning process to build trust and resilience against potential situations that could tear at the social fabric of the community. This proactive effort proved invaluable in 2020 when civil unrest emerged in cities throughout the country.

• Our Democracy Is in Serious Trouble: It Needs to Be Reinvented

  A strategy of people working with our governing institutions requires citizens who are seen, and who see themselves, as producers not just constituents and consumers. Americans don’t lack the ability to do it, but many of our institutions have little experience working with citizens as other than volunteers.