Content tagged with “civic engagement”

Assessing Community Information Needs

On October 17 the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will release the final in a series of eight white papers aimed at implementing the...
Tags: Communications Policy, Media, Journalism, civic engagement

Does Civic Engagement Make a Difference? Research Supports Prior Claims

Over the past couple decades, civic engagement and participation have helped to improve governance and outcomes in the developing world. To think how much more impact civic engagement could have with...
Tags: civic engagement, U.K. Department for International Development (DFID), Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability

When Creating Civic Change Becomes Reinventing the Wheel -- and Breaking that Habit

In 2008, hundreds of thousands of citizens engaged in the political process, some mobilizing others to vote for the first time. To both describe and recapture that activism, Matt Leighninger of the...
Tags: Philanthropy, civic engagement, community organizing, deliberative democracy, Matt Leighninger, WK Kellogg Foundation