“We help communities face division.” With that statement, Carl Smallwood of the Divided Communities Project kicked off a three-day academy on mediating conflicts at Stanford University in mid-September. During the...
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...
The annual Democracy R&D conference was hosted in Vancouver from September 19-20 by MassLBP, in partnership with NewDemocracy, and collaborators such as Simon Fraser University’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. ...
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...
The League is expanding our capacity to help communities with democracy and civic engagement, with the addition of three familiar faces. Derek Okubo, a former staff and board member of...
It’s rare to hear about civic and democratic innovation in public budgeting. Often, the way in which regular capital and operational investment planning occurs tends to limit discussion to particular...
