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1. Civic Engagement and Recent Immigrant Communities
(Resources/Member Contributions)
The DDC has worked with the National League of Cities (NLC) to develop a guide for public officials and other local leaders about developing strategies to engage recent immigrants. "Civic Engagement ...
2. Creating Spaces for Change
(Headlines/U.S. News)
Over the last two decades, ordinary people have been playing increasingly prominent roles in politics and public life, thanks in part to the work of an unheralded set of leaders. These practitioners of ...
... (For a brief, humorous video describing this transition, click here). We are learning a great deal from this work. Academics, civic activists, public engagement practitioners, community organizers, public ...
4. Funding Local Democracy
(Resources/Member Contributions)
The DDC has worked with PACE (Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement) to develop "Funding and Fostering Local Democracy," a guide designed to help the philanthropic community grapple with the question ...
5. Online democracy between elections
(The Democracy Movement/Knowledge Building)
... of Ascentum, the Ottawa-based organization that has done pioneering work to combine online and face-to-face approaches in democratic governance. The study was released by the Institute for Research on ...
6. "No Better Time" report released
(Headlines/U.S. News)
... Imperative (TDI), two organizations that work to promote best practices, research, and teaching for a strong democracy. “No Better Time: A 2010 Report on Opportunities and Challenges for Deliberative Democracy” ...
7. Online Deliberative Democracy
(About Us/Task Groups)
The Online Deliberative Democracy Consortium (ODDC), the Consortium’s Workgroup supporting online innovation in the field, has created deliberative-democracy.net, a group blog, its eBulletin and a knowledge-building ...
8. FedNet
(About Us/Task Groups)
... working to bring together civic engagement resources for elected officials and government agency practitioners. The Link to Government group has four objectives: ...
9. Knowledge Building
(About Us/Task Groups)
The Knowledge Building (KB) Task Group has organized three Researcher and Practitioner (R&P) Workshops, in 2003, 2005, and 2007. This Task Group of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium is led by Archon ...
10. DDC Staff
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy Consortium)
Matt Leighninger Executive Director Over the last thirteen years, Matt has worked with citizen involvement efforts in over 100 communities, in 40 states and two Canadian provinces; roughly 25,000 people ...
11. Democracy Helpline
(Initiatives/Projects - General)
... the situation in a report to the DDC’s director and members of the Democratic Governance workgroup, who would evaluate the request and respond within a set number of days. Most efforts to mobilize citizens ...
12. Affiliates and Partners
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy Consortium)
...  For the next stage of its work, the DDC has reached out farther to a new set of partners, forming connections with national associations that represent many of the leaders ...
13. Deliberative Democracy Fact Sheet
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy Consortium)
DDC FACT SHEET Description Fast Facts Goals The Deliberative Democracy Consortium (DDC) is a network of practitioners ...
14. The Deliberative Democracy Consortium
(About Us/Deliberative Democracy Consortium)
... of DDC affiliates, see the affiliates page. Since its inception, the Consortium has: Developed new tools Assembed new networks Assisted federal agencies  ...
15. Diers on neighborhood problem-solving
(The Democracy Movement/Knowledge Building)
Jim Diers, who used to direct the neighborhood governance work for the City of Seattle, has a terrific new paper out about the challenges and opportunities of involving citizens in neighborhood problem-solving. ...
16. Promise and Challenge of Neighborhood Democracy
(The Democracy Movement/Knowledge Building)
The DDC, Grassroots Grantmakers, and NeighborWorks America are pleased to announce the release of "The Promise and Challenge of Neighborhood Democracy: Lessons from the Intersection of Government and Community." ...
17. Conference on Online Deliberation
(Headlines/U.S. News)
... deliberation. From the organizers' site: At the dawn of the 21st century humankind faces challenges of profound proportions. The ability of people around the world to discuss, work, make decisions, and ...
18. The Next Form of Democracy
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... new ways for people and public servants to work together. The stories of civic experiments in "The Next Form of Democracy: How Expert Rule Is Giving Way to Shared Governance -- and Why Politics Will Never ...
19. Taking Democracy to Scale: Trip Report
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... for experimentation and research that require investment to advance the field?  Work sessions began at 8:30 in the morning and lasted until 10:30 p.m. with breaks for lunch and dinner. The goal ...
20. Thrilling Show of People Power
(Resources/Member Contributions)
... as if he'd worked at this job all his life. The traffic moved, and not a cop or politician was in sight. Then at the entrance to the Holland Tunnel, a packed steel-glass-and-rubber line of westbound ...
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Deliberative Democracy Handbook

The Deliberative Democracy Handbook is the first book to bring together the best practices and thinkin on deliberative citizen participation processes. Deliberative democracy is the nationwide movement to make citizen participation meaningful and effective. Learn more...

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Change Handbook

In a completely revised and updated second edition, lead authors Peggy Holman, Tom Devane, and Steven Cady profile sixty-one change methods--up from eighteen in the first edition. Nineteen of these methods are explored in depth, with case studies, answers to frequently asked questions, and details on the roles and responsibilities of the people involved, conditions for success, and more. Learn more...

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The Next Form of Democracy

Beneath the national radar, the relationship between citizens and government is undergoing a dramatic shift. The stories of civic experiments in "The Next Form of Democracy: How Expert Rule Is Giving Way to Shared Governance -- and Why Politics Will Never Be the Same" by DDC Executive Director Matt Leighninger show us the realpolitik of deliberative democracy, and illustrate how the evolution of democracy is already reshaping politics. Learn more...

Democracy Helpline


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