Core Principles for Public Engagement grew out of President Obama's "Open Government Directive," a call for executive departments and agencies to take specific actions in the areas of transparency, participation, and collaboration. As you might guess, the civic engagement field was abuzz in meetings, on email discussion lists, and on phone calls considering how we could support this effort.
Everyone agreed that the field of practice, as a whole, needed to articulate what we consider to be quality public engagement. And this clarity, whether or not it impacts the Open Government Directive, would be of great benefit to the field.
A core group from the civic engagement worked together to develop a set of principles. They engaged the field in a collaborative and transparent way to encourage broad involvement among networks to create a set of principles that everyone could get behind.
Building Prosperity for All is for people in rural communities and small towns who are working to move from poverty to prosperity. This resource was designed to benefit communities that participated in dialogue-to-change programs using the guide, Thriving Communities: Working Together to Move From Poverty to Prosperity for All. However, no prior experience with Thriving Communities is necessary to get involved.
This guide provides advice for organizing the conversations, and a guide for the event host and small-group dialogue facilitators to use throughout the discussion sessions.
A six-session discussion guide to help all kinds of people take part in meaningful dialogue to examine gaps among racial and ethnic groups and create institutional and policy change.
Building Prosperity for All is for people in rural communities and small towns who are working to move from poverty to prosperity. This resource was designed to benefit communities that participated in dialogue-to-change programs using the guide, Thriving Communities: Working Together to Move From Poverty to Prosperity for All. However, no prior experience with Thriving Communities is necessary to get involved.
This guide is an agenda for communities that want to reach out to neighboring communities and regional or statewide groups to identify ways to work together to continue to make progress on moving from poverty to prosperity.
The practice of treating everyone fairly and justly regardless of age, with special consideration to the structural factors that privilege some age groups over others.
Building Community in a "Connected" Age (Facilitator Guide)Everyday Democracy
This guide is designed to help citizens deliberate about ways to use e-state technology to help enhance community and civic life. The guide was designed to be used during a one day symposium and includes an exploration of community, scenarios to help explore e-state opportunities and challenges, an exercise to identify e-state values, and opportunities to identify action steps.
Beyond Civility: From Public Engagement to Problem SolvingEveryday Democracy
The national discussion on civility, borne out of the terrible events in Tucson, demonstrates that many believe the current overheated rhetoric is not working as a means to solve the nation’s problems. Policy debates are increasingly fraught with name calling, electioneering, posturing and worse.
In recognition of this, the National League of Cities (NLC) has created an action guide, Beyond Civility: From Public Engagement to Problem Solving, to assist local elected officials in creating a framework for civility and democratic governance that encourages governing a community in a participatory, deliberative, inclusive and collaborative way.
Core Principles for Public Engagement grew out of President Obama's "Open Government Directive," a call for executive departments and agencies to take specific actions in the areas of transparency, participation, and collaboration. As you might guess, the civic engagement field was abuzz in meetings, on email discussion lists, and on phone calls considering how we could support this effort.
Everyone agreed that the field of practice, as a whole, needed to articulate what we consider to be quality public engagement. And this clarity, whether or not it impacts the Open Government Directive, would be of great benefit to the field.
A core group from the civic engagement worked together to develop a set of principles. They engaged the field in a collaborative and transparent way to encourage broad involvement among networks to create a set of principles that everyone could get behind.
Building Prosperity for All is for people in rural communities and small towns who are working to move from poverty to prosperity. This resource was designed to benefit communities that participated in dialogue-to-change programs using the guide, Thriving Communities: Working Together to Move From Poverty to Prosperity for All. However, no prior experience with Thriving Communities is necessary to get involved.
This guide provides advice for organizing the conversations, and a guide for the event host and small-group dialogue facilitators to use throughout the discussion sessions.
A six-session discussion guide to help all kinds of people take part in meaningful dialogue to examine gaps among racial and ethnic groups and create institutional and policy change.
Building Prosperity for All is for people in rural communities and small towns who are working to move from poverty to prosperity. This resource was designed to benefit communities that participated in dialogue-to-change programs using the guide, Thriving Communities: Working Together to Move From Poverty to Prosperity for All. However, no prior experience with Thriving Communities is necessary to get involved.
This guide is an agenda for communities that want to reach out to neighboring communities and regional or statewide groups to identify ways to work together to continue to make progress on moving from poverty to prosperity.
The practice of treating everyone fairly and justly regardless of age, with special consideration to the structural factors that privilege some age groups over others.
Building Community in a "Connected" Age (Facilitator Guide)Everyday Democracy
This guide is designed to help citizens deliberate about ways to use e-state technology to help enhance community and civic life. The guide was designed to be used during a one day symposium and includes an exploration of community, scenarios to help explore e-state opportunities and challenges, an exercise to identify e-state values, and opportunities to identify action steps.
Beyond Civility: From Public Engagement to Problem SolvingEveryday Democracy
The national discussion on civility, borne out of the terrible events in Tucson, demonstrates that many believe the current overheated rhetoric is not working as a means to solve the nation’s problems. Policy debates are increasingly fraught with name calling, electioneering, posturing and worse.
In recognition of this, the National League of Cities (NLC) has created an action guide, Beyond Civility: From Public Engagement to Problem Solving, to assist local elected officials in creating a framework for civility and democratic governance that encourages governing a community in a participatory, deliberative, inclusive and collaborative way.
People in communities across this country want to live where they have the chance to thrive as they age. This is true in all kinds of places – small and large, rural and urban. This discussion will help us talk about the kind of community where people midlife and beyond can live successfully.
Hands on guide for youth and adults, who are dedicated to finding ways for all kinds of people to engage in dialogue and problem solving on critical social and political issues.
This Action Road Map will help communities walk through the steps we need to take to carry out a plan for action. Using this worksheet, you will think about the people, places, and things in your community that can help you reach your goals.
This five-session discussion guide helps people get involved in an important issue facing all of us: the well-being of our youngest children. The guide looks at how we are connected to the lives of children in our community and the “invisible” effects of racism and poverty. It also guides people in developing plans for action.
This discussion guide takes a look at when, where, and what young people learn. How do we create the kind of community where all young people will have a chance to learn – in and beyond the school day?
Subtitled "What can we do to make and keep our community healthy, strong, and vibrant", this 4-session guide was developed as a collaboration between The Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities and Everyday Democracy. The term “healthy community” can mean many things to many people: jobs, schools, clean water and air, basic health services, recreation, celebrations.
Step Forward, Step Back Organizational Identity ActivityEveryday Democracy
This activity shows some of the advantages and disadvantages related to organizational power and privilege. The activity is used to show how long-term accumulation of advantages based on organizational privilege can produce gaps among groups and create inequities in the communities we hope to serve. We will see visually how our positions within the organizations we work have privileged us, some perhaps more than others. The central question at the end is, what does our positioning reveal and how may we use this understanding to close these gaps?
A supplemental guide intended to give people with similar racial or ethnic backgrounds an opportunity to talk with each other about issues of racism in sessions preceding and following the regular diverse dialogue sessions of a community-wide study circle program. These optional discussions are designed to be used with Facing Racism in a Diverse Nation.
Building Strong Neighborhoods: A Study Guide for Public Dialogue and Communit...Everyday Democracy
A four-session discussion guide on many important neighborhood issues including: race and other kinds of differences; young people and families; safety and community-police relations; homes, housing and beautification; jobs and neighborhood economy; and schools.
Organizing Rural & Reservation Communities for Dialogue and ChangeEveryday Democracy
This guide is a summary of the lessons that Everyday Democracy staff learned in their work with communities that took part in Horizons, a program of the Northwest Area Foundation aimed at reducing poverty and boosting prosperity. Reflections from Horizons organizers and participants are threaded throughout the guide giving the advice and tips further authenticity. While this guide was written for communities taking part in Horizons, the advice and tips are applicable to any community working on any issue through a dialogue-to-change effort.
Building Strong Neighborhoods for Families With ChildrenEveryday Democracy
A four-session discussion guide to help people make their neighborhoods better places for families with children by identifying challenges and opportunities, and working toward solutions.
Building Community in a "Connected" Age (Participant Guide)Everyday Democracy
This guide is designed to help citizens deliberate about ways to use e-state technology to help enhance community and civic life. The guide was designed to be used during a one day symposium and includes an exploration of community, scenarios to help explore e-state opportunities and challenges, an exercise to identify e-state values, and opportunities to identify action steps.
A Community for All Generations - Teens and Adults Working TogetherEveryday Democracy
The purpose of this discussion guide is to create an opportunity for teens and adults to talk together, and find ways to make our community a place where young people can grow up successfully. Most public issues involve and affect young people as well as adults. But there if often little chance in most communities for all of us to work together on community problems in a positive and respectful way.
A comprehensive guide designed to help you recruit people to your community change effort, work with the media, master social media, and tell your story in many different formats along the way.
Everyday Democracy’s Dialogue to Change process is an adaptable approach to community engagement that is grounded in years of experience and learning with communities throughout the U.S.
In our process, diverse groups of people meet over several weeks, and take part in activities that build trust, provide opportunities to share honestly, learn about an issue and work together on solutions and action.
Building Prosperity for All is for people in rural communities and small towns who are working to move from poverty to prosperity. This resource was designed to benefit communities that participated in dialogue-to-change programs using the guide, Thriving Communities: Working Together to Move From Poverty to Prosperity for All. However, no prior experience with Thriving Communities is necessary to get involved.
This guide is a series of handouts for dialogue participants to use throughout the discussion sessions.
Activity for Incorporating a Racial Equity Lens in Action TeamsEveryday Democracy
This exercise is designed to help you have a conversation about how your community’s racial dynamics may be impacting your work as you move forward to act on the ideas generated from the dialogues. It will help you think about how you can work together more equitably as a team during this phase of the process.
One Nation, Many Beliefs: Talking About Religion in a Diverse DemocracyEveryday Democracy
The discussion guide, One Nation, Many Beliefs, is designed to strengthen relationships and understanding across religious and philosophical perspectives as a foundation for talking about inter-group tensions and the role of religion in public decision making.
People in communities across this country want to live where they have the chance to thrive as they age. This is true in all kinds of places – small and large, rural and urban. This discussion will help us talk about the kind of community where people midlife and beyond can live successfully.
Hands on guide for youth and adults, who are dedicated to finding ways for all kinds of people to engage in dialogue and problem solving on critical social and political issues.
This Action Road Map will help communities walk through the steps we need to take to carry out a plan for action. Using this worksheet, you will think about the people, places, and things in your community that can help you reach your goals.
This five-session discussion guide helps people get involved in an important issue facing all of us: the well-being of our youngest children. The guide looks at how we are connected to the lives of children in our community and the “invisible” effects of racism and poverty. It also guides people in developing plans for action.
This discussion guide takes a look at when, where, and what young people learn. How do we create the kind of community where all young people will have a chance to learn – in and beyond the school day?
Subtitled "What can we do to make and keep our community healthy, strong, and vibrant", this 4-session guide was developed as a collaboration between The Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities and Everyday Democracy. The term “healthy community” can mean many things to many people: jobs, schools, clean water and air, basic health services, recreation, celebrations.
Step Forward, Step Back Organizational Identity ActivityEveryday Democracy
This activity shows some of the advantages and disadvantages related to organizational power and privilege. The activity is used to show how long-term accumulation of advantages based on organizational privilege can produce gaps among groups and create inequities in the communities we hope to serve. We will see visually how our positions within the organizations we work have privileged us, some perhaps more than others. The central question at the end is, what does our positioning reveal and how may we use this understanding to close these gaps?
A supplemental guide intended to give people with similar racial or ethnic backgrounds an opportunity to talk with each other about issues of racism in sessions preceding and following the regular diverse dialogue sessions of a community-wide study circle program. These optional discussions are designed to be used with Facing Racism in a Diverse Nation.
Building Strong Neighborhoods: A Study Guide for Public Dialogue and Communit...Everyday Democracy
A four-session discussion guide on many important neighborhood issues including: race and other kinds of differences; young people and families; safety and community-police relations; homes, housing and beautification; jobs and neighborhood economy; and schools.
Organizing Rural & Reservation Communities for Dialogue and ChangeEveryday Democracy
This guide is a summary of the lessons that Everyday Democracy staff learned in their work with communities that took part in Horizons, a program of the Northwest Area Foundation aimed at reducing poverty and boosting prosperity. Reflections from Horizons organizers and participants are threaded throughout the guide giving the advice and tips further authenticity. While this guide was written for communities taking part in Horizons, the advice and tips are applicable to any community working on any issue through a dialogue-to-change effort.
Building Strong Neighborhoods for Families With ChildrenEveryday Democracy
A four-session discussion guide to help people make their neighborhoods better places for families with children by identifying challenges and opportunities, and working toward solutions.
Building Community in a "Connected" Age (Participant Guide)Everyday Democracy
This guide is designed to help citizens deliberate about ways to use e-state technology to help enhance community and civic life. The guide was designed to be used during a one day symposium and includes an exploration of community, scenarios to help explore e-state opportunities and challenges, an exercise to identify e-state values, and opportunities to identify action steps.
A Community for All Generations - Teens and Adults Working TogetherEveryday Democracy
The purpose of this discussion guide is to create an opportunity for teens and adults to talk together, and find ways to make our community a place where young people can grow up successfully. Most public issues involve and affect young people as well as adults. But there if often little chance in most communities for all of us to work together on community problems in a positive and respectful way.
A comprehensive guide designed to help you recruit people to your community change effort, work with the media, master social media, and tell your story in many different formats along the way.
Everyday Democracy’s Dialogue to Change process is an adaptable approach to community engagement that is grounded in years of experience and learning with communities throughout the U.S.
In our process, diverse groups of people meet over several weeks, and take part in activities that build trust, provide opportunities to share honestly, learn about an issue and work together on solutions and action.
Building Prosperity for All is for people in rural communities and small towns who are working to move from poverty to prosperity. This resource was designed to benefit communities that participated in dialogue-to-change programs using the guide, Thriving Communities: Working Together to Move From Poverty to Prosperity for All. However, no prior experience with Thriving Communities is necessary to get involved.
This guide is a series of handouts for dialogue participants to use throughout the discussion sessions.
Activity for Incorporating a Racial Equity Lens in Action TeamsEveryday Democracy
This exercise is designed to help you have a conversation about how your community’s racial dynamics may be impacting your work as you move forward to act on the ideas generated from the dialogues. It will help you think about how you can work together more equitably as a team during this phase of the process.
One Nation, Many Beliefs: Talking About Religion in a Diverse DemocracyEveryday Democracy
The discussion guide, One Nation, Many Beliefs, is designed to strengthen relationships and understanding across religious and philosophical perspectives as a foundation for talking about inter-group tensions and the role of religion in public decision making.
Gelgaudiškio dvaro sodybos ansamblio galimybių studijaLaura Kelmelytė
Užsienio šalių ir Lietuvos paveldo situacijos apžvalga. Lietuvos turizmo poreikio nustatymas ir Gelgaudiškio dvaro sodybos ansamblio pristatymas. Nagrinėjamo dvaro panaudojimo šiuolaikiniams visuomenės poreikiams pristatymas.
Nuomos sutarčų bruožų pristatymas. Nuomos sutarties objekto, subjekto jų teisių ir pareigų išskyrimas. Nuomos sutarties pasibaigimo, vykdymo ir nutraukimo ypatybių analizavimas.
Slides of the second paper on the ULiS project, availiable at http://maxime-lefrancois.info/Publications
We are interested in bridging the world of natural language and the world of the semantic web in particular to support multilingual access to the web of data. In this paper we introduce the ULiS project, that aims at designing a pivot-based NLP technique called Universal Linguistic System, 100% using the semantic web formalisms, and being compliant with the Meaning-Text theory. Through the ULiS, a user could interact with an interlingual knowledge base (IKB) in controlled natural language. Linguistic resources themselves are part of a specific IKB: The Universal Lexical Knowledge base (ULK), so that actors may enhance their controlled natural language, through requests in controlled natural language. We describe a basic interaction scenario at the system level, and provide an overview of the architecture of ULiS. We then introduce the core of the ULiS: the interlingual lexical ontology (ILexicOn), in which each interlingual lexical unit class (ILUc) supports the projection of its semantic decomposition on itself. We validate our model with a standalone ILexicOn, and introduce and explain a concise human-readable notation for it.
Relationships and virtual collaboration designDavid Friedman
How thinking concretely about and supporting 1-to-1 relationships within a collaboration can make it much more effective. Was the basis of a discussion at the Radical Real Time online Unconference on June 5, 2010
Everyday Democracy's Approach to Change and Website TourEveryday Democracy
Everyday Democracy helps communities build their own capacity for inclusive dialogue and positive change. Everyday Democracy’s ultimate aim is to create a national civic infrastructure that supports and values everyone’s voice and participation.
In this presentation, learn more about what Everyday Democracy does, hear about what we've learned over the years, hear some stories of our work, and get a tour of our new website.
A List Of The Best Community Outreach Strategies For You.pdfCallHub
Reach your community effectively with these community outreach strategies. Whether you are a nonprofit, advocacy or political campaign - we have the right solutions for you.
Why school districts need to think differently about how they communicate with their communities. Also, how the World Cafe model developed by Juanita Brown can be used to answer powerful questions in school districts.
SXSW Interactive is many things -- parties, breakfast tacos, big ideas--but most of all it is an incredible community of designers, entrepreneurs and technologists who care about the future of the web. As that community
has grown, so has the call from nonprofit leaders and socially conscious brands to infuse the SXSW experience
with themes of how to harness the power of web technology to make the world a better place.
The question becomes: how do we break out of our silos, patterns and habits to do something about it?
We invited 16 change-makers from vastly different business sectors to explore this very question with us. We called it the Do Good Dialogues. Featuring innovative voices seeking to take cross-pollination to the next level, master disruptor Brian Reich led 15-minute discussions from our stage and challenged each thought leader to answer “Five Good Questions” about their role in creating lasting social good.
The Do Good Dialogues eBook features the transcripts of those discussions, along with other notes, thoughts and resources.
February 2011 Vol. 32 no. 1 www.learningforward.org JsD 57ChereCheek752
February 2011 | Vol. 32 no. 1 www.learningforward.org | JsD 57
g
eoffrey Canada said in a recent
presentation, “Education is the
only business I know of where
you can change anything you want, as
long as you change nothing” (2010).
After so much debate and so many
policies, why is our education system
still failing so many of our children?
What are we either missing or
pretending not to know?
Reforms only work when people
who implement them are on board,
engaged, and valued. What gets talked
about from the boardroom to the
classroom, how it gets talked about, and
who is invited to join the conversation
determines what will happen or won’t.
Are the driving conversations
dividing or connecting stakeholders?
Are they catalysts for change and
accountability, or are they further
entrenching people in fear and blame?
Is mandating accountability preventing
us from hearing and seeing the
competing truths that exist about our
students, classrooms, and schools?
Amid the spinning wheels of
education reform, an essential
component seems to be missing:
conversations that speak directly to the
heart of the issue, engage people’s
curiosity to uncover the truth, galvanize
people, and create collective
responsibility.
Leadership that attempts to create
accountability with top-down
mandates, rather than by engaging and
connecting people, leads to or
exacerbates a culture of blame and
excuses. Mandating accountability,
while it may sound effective, simply
doesn’t work. Why? Because most often
in practice this approach is fueled by
the same thing victimhood is fueled by
— blame. And as long as that’s the case,
there’s no time, energy, or vision left to
create real solutions.
A NeW VIeW OF AccOuNTABILITY
The long-term benefits of
accountability have enormous
implications for the quality of our lives
and of our education system. There is a
direct correlation between any
organization’s health and the degree of
accountability displayed by its
employees, top to bottom.
Accountability is an attitude, a
personal, private, and nonnegotiable
choice about how to live one’s life. It’s a
desire to take responsibility for results,
and for that reason, it cannot be
mandated. It requires a personal bias
toward solutions, toward action.
Rather than hold people
accountable, hold them
“able.” Rather than equate
the word accountability
with culpability, begin with
yourself and model the kind
of accountability that is
empowering. Accountability
has to come from within.
Model it and show people how
accountability benefits them. When it’s
clear how accountability benefits
someone, accountability becomes an
internal drive.
While we don’t always have a choice
about the situation in which we find
ourselves, we do have a choice about
how we view or judge it. Consider
shifting your perspective from ‘Since
this is a tough situation, I can’t do it,
I’m not willing to muster the courage,
will, skill, energy, focus, needed to do
or say what needs doing,’ to taking the
stance that ...
Talk given at UXNZ 2016, exploring key "edges" of practice we are exploring in co-design in Aotearoa. With thanks to all the community members and practitioner who shared their experiences in this talk.
Talk Abstract:
Across Aotearoa (New Zealand), co-design is rapidly being adopted in public and community contexts to tackle complex national issues and policies such as youth employment; smoking cessation; community health and wellbeing; homelessness
and family violence.
Many of these are large-scale, complex social change innovations and experiments that bring together new groups of people, which means working together in new ways. The opportunity to scale co-design to help address systemic national social challenges is both awesome and terrifying. This talk highlights some of the key trends, changes, opportunities and challenges emerging in co-design for social innovation and social outcomes in Aotearoa.
Diversity Awareness for Effective Nonprofits4Good.org
Today’s workforce and organizations are increasingly diverse. Effective non-profits need to be capable of welcoming, including, utilizing and working with diverse people, perspectives, styles, and experiences for overall success and capacity.
This presentation offers practical tools and concepts designed to resolve tensions, utilize strengths, support collaboration, and create more welcoming environments.
Similar to Orientation to Everyday Democracy's work (20)
Connecticut Civic Ambassadors are everyday people who care about and engage others in their communities by creating opportunities for civic participation that strengthens our state’s “Civic Health.” Civic Health is determined by how well diverse groups of residents work together and with government to solve public problems to strengthen their communities. Read more below on how you can be an agent of change in your own community by joining the team.
Ripple Effects Mapping Tip Sheet for Evaluating Community Engagement Everyday Democracy
Community Engagement and Dialogue to Change strategies can lead to many positive changes in your community. However, direct impacts can be tough to track. Ripple Effects Mapping (REM) allows you, along with local leaders and others in your community, to assess impacts from your Dialogue to
Change efforts. It allows you to visually document the impacts your efforts have had on individuals, on your community, and on institutions and systems over time. These are tips for rolling out a Ripple Effects Mapping process:
Evaluation Guide Toolkit (Companion to Evaluating Community Engagement Guide)Everyday Democracy
Includes an Evaluation Capacity Self-Assessment Tool,
Sample Community Engagement Logic Model, Logic Model Template, Data Collection and Planning Template and Ripple Mapping Tip Sheet
The Wondertwins, "Black"- September 27th, West Hartford, CT Everyday Democracy
The Wondertwins, famed veteran hip-hop dance duo from Boston, perform their newest piece, BLACK. BLACK explores the traumatizing effects of police violence towards the black community by incorporating dance with historic and contemporary audio and video clips. Post-show dialogue will be facilitated by Everyday Democracy and the Connecticut Collaborative on Poverty, Criminal Justice and Race.
This is a brief guide developed for Stand Against Racism Day, 2019. The guide helps communities discuss immigration and how it connects to racial equity.
“American citizenship brings legal rights, protections, and responsibilities. But its meaning goes deeper. To be a citizen is to be accepted, to feel safe, to be ‘one of us.’ ”
Racism is rooted in our country's history and is embedded in our culture, and yet the history of structural racism is rarely taught or portrayed. Racism is still one of the greatest barriers to fulfilling the promise of our democracy. That is why Everyday Democracy uses a racial equity lens in all the work we do.
Unfortunately, most people in the U.S. have not had the chance to study and understand how racism has evolved and how it continues to affect every area of our lives. We don’t usually learn about it in school, except in cursory ways. Even then, it is often portrayed as a part of a distant past that stopped with the fight for civil rights in the 60s. That, in itself, is part of the “invisible” power of structural racism.
There are many people who don’t realize that, as a country, we still have work to do to create equal opportunities for all. And many aren’t aware that all of us – of every region of the country, of every color and ethnic background – are still dealing with the impact of slavery, Jim Crow, and other policies that have perpetuated unfair advantages based on color. All of us need to deepen our understanding of our full history, so that we can move beyond “us vs. them” to “us.” Only as we understand the forces that have shaped our lives can we begin imagine and create a democracy that supports voice and belonging for all.
To share an important part of this history, the New York Historical Society (NYHS) has developed a curriculum to help students and communities explore the legacy of racism. It includes three comprehensive units and printable resources. This curriculum was developed as part of NYHS’s current exhibit, Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow, that explores the struggle for full citizenship and racial equity. This powerful exhibit uncovers not only the overt and hidden racism that marked a pivotal era in our history, it highlights the day-to-day acts of courage that so many people took to claim citizenship as belonging. It is impossible to see this exhibit without thinking about the parallels for today.
We invite you to use and share this curriculum with students, coworkers, family members, and community members. And then we invite you to work with us at Everyday Democracy to use your learning as a catalyst for expanding the dialogue and creating equitable change in your community and our country.
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
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Future Of Fintech In India | Evolution Of Fintech In IndiaTheUnitedIndian
Navigating the Future of Fintech in India: Insights into how AI, blockchain, and digital payments are driving unprecedented growth in India's fintech industry, redefining financial services and accessibility.
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Welcome to the new Mizzima Weekly !
Mizzima Media Group is pleased to announce the relaunch of Mizzima Weekly. Mizzima is dedicated to helping our readers and viewers keep up to date on the latest developments in Myanmar and related to Myanmar by offering analysis and insight into the subjects that matter. Our websites and our social media channels provide readers and viewers with up-to-the-minute and up-to-date news, which we don’t necessarily need to replicate in our Mizzima Weekly magazine. But where we see a gap is in providing more analysis, insight and in-depth coverage of Myanmar, that is of particular interest to a range of readers.
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Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy, often referred to as Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, is an Indian politician who currently serves as the Chief Minister of the state of Andhra Pradesh. He was born on December 21, 1972, in Pulivendula, Andhra Pradesh, to Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy (popularly known as YSR), a former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, and Y.S. Vijayamma.
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(Ask the audience) How does your community solve problems?
Here are a few examples of common ways communities solve problems. One is from the bottom up: people are upset and they are reacting instead of being proactive.
Another way is from the top down: it happens privately without input from the community.
Another option is a town hall meeting. Usually this only allows you to have 3 minutes to say your own opinion and people are usually pretty angry.
There’s a better way to solve community problems. We’re talking about a way that gives everyone a voice and leads to action. Many people think of democracy as the second Tuesday in November when they vote, but we should participate in democracy daily where you have a real impact in your community. So what is this better way to solve community problems?
Pajarito Mesa is a rural community in New Mexico with approximately 1500 residents, some born in the U.S. and many from throughout Mexico and Central America. It is not recognized as part of the Albuquerque infrastructure. Among the barriers they face is: No electricity, no running water, no paved or named roads, no shelter for children dropped off by school bus at end of day, prejudice against Latin American immigrants. They held 6 dialogues to discuss how to make the community stronger, focusing on the needs of their children. 70 people participated in the dialogues.
Actions County commissioners’ office donates a portable building for children to use as shelter until parents return from work. Youth program donating staff and supplies to provide after school services in the portable building County emergency services working with residents, using GPS to better identify the dirt roads, making it possible for them to respond to emergencies more promptly Increased police presence on the Mesa has lowered incidents like dumping, youth parties, violence on the Mesa County commissioner’s office is supporting another dialogue of Pajarito Mesa residents, this time with landowners, to plan out how they would like to see Pajarito Mesa develop
Lack of time For rural communities, distance Power structure – “old-timers” running things and unwilling to share power We’re here to help you break down these barriers and reach out to all in a community. In our work, we’ve found that race has been a barrier in most communities. We need to recognize that cultural differences, including race, creates barriers to solving problems as a community.
Why does this approach work? It includes many voices. People with different perspectives and opinions from all corners of society listen to each other. When people have a voice, they take responsibility for helping make the change happen. It builds relationships. This helps to dispel stereotypes, and the relationships that form from the dialogues become an asset when a community is ready to take action. 3) Every community faces barriers – sometimes they’re hard to see at first glance. This approach gives your community a way to identify and talk about them. Barriers could be cultural, economic, or racial. Racism is rooted in our country’s history and is embedded in our culture. It is the greatest barrier to solving all kinds of public problems. Because of this, our approach includes helping communities understand how racism and other structural inequities affect the problems they’re addressing. 4) When the whole community is involved in finding solutions to problems, when the action ideas come from the community, its residents are invested in the process
Why does this approach work? It includes many voices. People with different perspectives and opinions from all corners of society listen to each other. When people have a voice, they take responsibility for helping make the change happen. It builds relationships. This helps to dispel stereotypes, and the relationships that form from the dialogues become an asset when a community is ready to take action. 3) Every community faces barriers – sometimes they’re hard to see at first glance. This approach gives your community a way to identify and talk about them. Barriers could be cultural, economic, or racial. Racism is rooted in our country’s history and is embedded in our culture. It is the greatest barrier to solving all kinds of public problems. Because of this, our approach includes helping communities understand how racism and other structural inequities affect the problems they’re addressing. 4) When the whole community is involved in finding solutions to problems, when the action ideas come from the community, its residents are invested in the process
Why does this approach work? It includes many voices. People with different perspectives and opinions from all corners of society listen to each other. When people have a voice, they take responsibility for helping make the change happen. It builds relationships. This helps to dispel stereotypes, and the relationships that form from the dialogues become an asset when a community is ready to take action. 3) Every community faces barriers – sometimes they’re hard to see at first glance. This approach gives your community a way to identify and talk about them. Barriers could be cultural, economic, or racial. Racism is rooted in our country’s history and is embedded in our culture. It is the greatest barrier to solving all kinds of public problems. Because of this, our approach includes helping communities understand how racism and other structural inequities affect the problems they’re addressing. 4) When the whole community is involved in finding solutions to problems, when the action ideas come from the community, its residents are invested in the process
Why does this approach work? It includes many voices. People with different perspectives and opinions from all corners of society listen to each other. When people have a voice, they take responsibility for helping make the change happen. It builds relationships. This helps to dispel stereotypes, and the relationships that form from the dialogues become an asset when a community is ready to take action. 3) Every community faces barriers – sometimes they’re hard to see at first glance. This approach gives your community a way to identify and talk about them. Barriers could be cultural, economic, or racial. Racism is rooted in our country’s history and is embedded in our culture. It is the greatest barrier to solving all kinds of public problems. Because of this, our approach includes helping communities understand how racism and other structural inequities affect the problems they’re addressing. 4) When the whole community is involved in finding solutions to problems, when the action ideas come from the community, its residents are invested in the process
Why does this approach work? It includes many voices. People with different perspectives and opinions from all corners of society listen to each other. When people have a voice, they take responsibility for helping make the change happen. It builds relationships. This helps to dispel stereotypes, and the relationships that form from the dialogues become an asset when a community is ready to take action. 3) Every community faces barriers – sometimes they’re hard to see at first glance. This approach gives your community a way to identify and talk about them. Barriers could be cultural, economic, or racial. Racism is rooted in our country’s history and is embedded in our culture. It is the greatest barrier to solving all kinds of public problems. Because of this, our approach includes helping communities understand how racism and other structural inequities affect the problems they’re addressing. 4) When the whole community is involved in finding solutions to problems, when the action ideas come from the community, its residents are invested in the process
Several activities lead to the kind of change we’re talking about: It starts with inclusive community organizing Then you gather the community together in dialogue After the dialogues community members will work on action ideas that they develop The process is something they can use to address issues as they arise. The organizing, dialogue, and action will eventually lead to change.
Several activities lead to the kind of change we’re talking about: It starts with inclusive community organizing Then you gather the community together in dialogue After the dialogues community members will work on action ideas that they develop The process is something they can use to address issues as they arise. The organizing, dialogue, and action will eventually lead to change.
Several activities lead to the kind of change we’re talking about: It starts with inclusive community organizing Then you gather the community together in dialogue After the dialogues community members will work on action ideas that they develop The process is something they can use to address issues as they arise. The organizing, dialogue, and action will eventually lead to change.
Several activities lead to the kind of change we’re talking about: It starts with inclusive community organizing Then you gather the community together in dialogue After the dialogues community members will work on action ideas that they develop The process is something they can use to address issues as they arise. The organizing, dialogue, and action will eventually lead to change.
Several activities lead to the kind of change we’re talking about: It starts with inclusive community organizing Then you gather the community together in dialogue After the dialogues community members will work on action ideas that they develop The process is something they can use to address issues as they arise. The organizing, dialogue, and action will eventually lead to change.
Generally, organizing takes about four to six months. It may take a longer or shorter amount of time depending on your situation, but six months is a good amount of time to use for planning purposes.
Dialogues work best when different voices and perspectives are at the table. When you’re organizing, you want to get people from different races, ages, neighborhoods, education level, economic situation, ability, immigration status, etc. to join your effort. This includes people who might not see the issue the same way you do or who might not be in your comfort zone. It is especially important to get people from different racial backgrounds to be a part of the community dialogues and action groups. (***Need some race messaging here on why)
Each dialogue circle has 8-12 participants that meet 4-5 times to discuss a critical public issue. Two neutral facilitators use a discussion guide to lead the conversation. Each dialogue circle will likely have diverse participants and opinions.
Let me clarify… It’s not just talk for the sake of talking. Talking leads to building relationships across differences. These new relationships lead to trust Which leads to a stronger community And motivation to take action and create change
Let me clarify… It’s not just talk for the sake of talking. Talking leads to building relationships across differences. These new relationships lead to trust Which leads to a stronger community And motivation to take action and create change
Let me clarify… It’s not just talk for the sake of talking. Talking leads to building relationships across differences. These new relationships lead to trust Which leads to a stronger community And motivation to take action and create change
Let me clarify… It’s not just talk for the sake of talking. Talking leads to building relationships across differences. These new relationships lead to trust Which leads to a stronger community And motivation to take action and create change
What’s powerful about this process is that it’s not just one group of people getting together, it’s 50 or 100 people or more coming together to create a common vision to make your community a better place and act on their ideas.
The dialogues create an open space for different kinds of people to talk about difficult issues. It allows community leaders to hear from residents who don’t usually have a voice. It helps diffuse tensions between groups because it focuses on building relationships and finding common ground. It is also a space to take that common ground and develop ideas for action and to take the dialogues and relationship building to the next level. Again, this isn’t talk for the sake of talking!
The dialogues create an open space for different kinds of people to talk about difficult issues. It allows community leaders to hear from residents who don’t usually have a voice. It helps diffuse tensions between groups because it focuses on building relationships and finding common ground. It is also a space to take that common ground and develop ideas for action and to take the dialogues and relationship building to the next level. Again, this isn’t talk for the sake of talking!
The dialogues create an open space for different kinds of people to talk about difficult issues. It allows community leaders to hear from residents who don’t usually have a voice. It helps diffuse tensions between groups because it focuses on building relationships and finding common ground. It is also a space to take that common ground and develop ideas for action and to take the dialogues and relationship building to the next level. Again, this isn’t talk for the sake of talking!
The dialogues create an open space for different kinds of people to talk about difficult issues. It allows community leaders to hear from residents who don’t usually have a voice. It helps diffuse tensions between groups because it focuses on building relationships and finding common ground. It is also a space to take that common ground and develop ideas for action and to take the dialogues and relationship building to the next level. Again, this isn’t talk for the sake of talking!
The dialogues create an open space for different kinds of people to talk about difficult issues. It allows community leaders to hear from residents who don’t usually have a voice. It helps diffuse tensions between groups because it focuses on building relationships and finding common ground. It is also a space to take that common ground and develop ideas for action and to take the dialogues and relationship building to the next level. Again, this isn’t talk for the sake of talking!
One type of change that comes out of this process is individual change. Some examples of this are dispelled stereotypes, deeper relationships, personal learning and growth, and new leaders.
The next level of change happens through collective action. These are activities that members of the community work on together to benefit everyone. Some examples are creating a community garden or a multicultural center, organizing a neighborhood cleanup, and hosting trust-building forums between police and youth.
The next level of change is institutional and policy change. This changes the way the community works to strengthen and leverage existing resources or to prevent problems from happening in the future. It’s creating policies within existing systems to be more equitable. This type of change can take a long time to implement and is often the hardest to do, but it leads to lasting results. Some examples of institutional and policy change are: incorporating action ideas into a strategic plan, lobbying for a law mandating schools implement bullying policies, and implementing mandatory diversity and racial equity training for city employees. These are all things that communities have done as a result of the dialogue-to-change program.
It’s also about looking at your community differently. One community comes to mind in South Dakota. The owner of a car dealership that went under when the market crashed a couple of years ago took part in the dialogues there. A common concern was that their youth had nothing to do in town. They were bored and getting into drugs and other forms of trouble.
Relationship building is at the core of community building. It doesn’t necessarily take a lot of money, but it does take will power and looking at your community in a different way, where something that you once thought was a deficiency or an eyesore becomes an asset.
Relationship building is at the core of community building. It doesn’t necessarily take a lot of money, but it does take will power and looking at your community in a different way, where something that you once thought was a deficiency or an eyesore becomes an asset.
Relationship building is at the core of community building. It doesn’t necessarily take a lot of money, but it does take will power and looking at your community in a different way, where something that you once thought was a deficiency or an eyesore becomes an asset.
Relationship building is at the core of community building. It doesn’t necessarily take a lot of money, but it does take will power and looking at your community in a different way, where something that you once thought was a deficiency or an eyesore becomes an asset.
Relationship building is at the core of community building. It doesn’t necessarily take a lot of money, but it does take will power and looking at your community in a different way, where something that you once thought was a deficiency or an eyesore becomes an asset.
Just by contacting us and attending this orientation you’ve already shown initiative and taken the first step.
Share your vision with others: Let them know how excited you are and that there’s a new way to solve problems in your community that ensures everyone’s voice gets heard. Also reach out to those you don’t know! Download this orientation from our website and share it with others. Sit down with a group of people interested in this work and start planning. The more people know about it and are as excited as you are, the easier and faster this process will be!
One initial step to take is to start building a diverse coalition to help move this forward. Conduct a sample dialogue with them so they can get a taste of how the dialogues will work.
This is the team of staff members and senior associates at Everyday Democracy. We’re here to help you along the way. We can conduct trainings on organizing, facilitating and action planning and we’re available to answer questions you may have in between trainings.
This is the team of staff members and senior associates at Everyday Democracy. We’re here to help you along the way. We can conduct trainings on organizing, facilitating and action planning and we’re available to answer questions you may have in between trainings.
Today I’ve shared with you some amazing stories of communities that have held dialogues and taken action. You could be a key instrument in changing your community. Don’t just put the key in a box and forget about it. Take it and start opening some doors and start changing your community.