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

Resilience

From NextCity.org: Oakland has earthquakes, droughts and a host of other resilience problems to tackle. Now it has a Chief Resilience Officer to lead the charge. Today, Oakland Mayor Jean...

Model City Charter, 8th Edition

[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

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

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

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

Photo by Karina Furhman

AAC Photo Contest

To continue the All-America City experience and share photos from the event with one another National Civic League is sponsoring a Facebook Photo Contest.  From today (6/20/2014) until Wednesday July...

AAC Presentation: Cedar Rapids

Congratulations to the 2014 All-America Cities!

The National Civic League announced the ten All-America Cities tonight during a celebration at the Grand Hyatt Denver. The award is given to communities for outstanding civic accomplishments. This year...