How one Arizona city changed its advertising practices to address a lack of diversity in its hiring of lifeguards for local public pools.
Whether it is providing housing for less affluent residents or making a meaningful effort to fight climate change, most of the toughest challenges facing our communities cannot be addressed unless localities work across jurisdictional lines.
For the past seven years, the RWJF-National Civic League Health Equity award has cast a spotlight on people who are leveraging engagement to improve health outcomes for those most impacted by health disparities.
Reading and math scores for school children declined during the pandemic. This year’s All-America City Award recipients showed how public housing and affordable housing programs can be used as platforms for improving early school success and accelerating equitable learning recovery.
Mediator Andrew Thomas has helped to embed an infrastructure of constructive dialogue and engagement in Sanford, Florida, in the aftermath of a racially charged shooting.
In Palm Springs California, the local newspaper took a monthlong break from national politics, publishing only local and state-oriented columns and letters to the editor on its opinion page. Convinced that nationalizing news and opinion consumption increases polarization, a team of researchers wrote a book about the experiment.
The Northern Colorado Deliberative Journalism Project seeks to explore how civic organizations and journalists might work together to reimagine our local information ecosystems and take on the democratic challenges.
A greater understanding of which practices nurture a sense of belonging among community members and which practices do not can help us strengthen public engagement efforts and do a better job of providing for human needs.
In February 2022, the National Civic League and Kettering Foundation brought together a dozen mayors from communities that have won the All-America City Award to exchange ideas and learn from each other’s efforts to address the challenge of policing and equity. A common denominator was a focus on engaging diverse voices that typically aren’t heard.
