Civic Engagement
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After a decade of transforming public spaces, we are building trust and connection between Americans.
Tag: Community
Education
Welcome to the Era of Relational Intelligence
As AI begins to transform education, work, and social life, we need to focus on developing and expanding capacities essential for human flourishing.
Cities
A Sideways Approach to Governing
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens is seeking to improve his city by going neighborhood by neighborhood.
sponsored
Community Data Is Trusted Evidence
Why our overreliance on dominant data is failing communities and how community data provides a solution.
Review
Cities
When Houses Are Not Homes
Peter Apps' Homesick argues that beneath the housing crisis of rents and shortages is a deeper history of community-unbuilding.
Philanthropy & Funding
How to Finance Community-Led Solutions
Raven Indigenous Outcomes Funds has pioneered community-driven outcomes contracts to center Indigenous communities in Canada as leaders in addressing health and social problems. They present a bold new model for outcomes purchasing.
Philanthropy & Funding
Planning Equitable Cities
Smart Growth America's new Center for Zoning Solutions offers a headquarters for the zoning reform movement.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Community Beyond Resources
Ending homelessness is about housing. Except when it's not.
Arts & Culture
Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure
How artmaking and creative practice in the United States can address community challenges, strengthen local economies, and rebuild human connections—and three less-well-traveled ways to support it.
Collaboration
Fostering Collaboration Through Communications
Taking the lead on social and environmental challenges starts with communications strategies that bring people together.