Cameron from Portland, Oregon!

Hi from San Diego.

Jamie Engel, Ncoc, currently in Cambridge, MA!

Hello everyone! Alicia from Lincoln NE.

Tammy from Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA

Izzy from VT Engage, Blacksburg VA!

Liza Youngling, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, working remotely in Chicago

Hello, all - Tom Tresser from the CivicLab in Chicago - http://www.civiclab.us - tom@civiclab.us

Karen Clay, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Mark Roseland, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ

Ryan from Salisbury, MD!

Russ from Chapel Hill, NC

Linda from Atlanta

Hello from Washington DC - NICD

Wendy Wagner, George Washington University in Washington DC

Richard Knopf Arizona State University

Tasha Stanton, Monticello - currently in Charlottesville, VA

TJ Pyche from Gainesville, Fla.

Chris Kukk from Longwood University in Farmville VA

Hello! Kelsey Gerber at AmeriCorps, coming from the DC area!

Fatu Magassouba (she/her) Outreach Director at LeadMN - from Minnesota

Hi from Jacksonville Florida!

From Right Question Institute in Cambridge MA

Hey y'all! :) Allie from Lincoln, Nebraska

Paul Leistner, Center for Public Service, Portland State Univ in Portland Oregon

hi from Silicon Valley, CA

Sterling here in the non-State of DC.

Heather from Nebraska - hello everyone!

Steve Lamb City of Chattanooga, Tennesee

Carol from Ligonier Pennsylvania, PMSC AmeriCorps

Sarah Flammang, Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore Corps)

Mike St. Louis from Atlanta, thanks for this!

Theresa from Cincinnati

Briana from NYC !

Jean from Chattanooga, TN

Caroline in Boston with Nonprofit VOTE!

Bailey Borman, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ

Zoe from DC

Hello! Jena from PMSC AmeriCorps in southwestern PA.

Gordon Allen, New Hampshire, Antrim Community Board

Linda Durril from Fort Wayne, IN

hey all! lori form Civic Hacker Network, Redding, CA

Tim dawson, the art of democracy, LLC, pittsburgh, oa

Erin from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH

Paul Brown, Director of the Civic Innovation Center at the UMD School of Public Policy, from North Bethesda, MD

Corinne from Boston, MA

Rachael Oliver, GA Family Connection Partnership

Timberley from Atlanta -Spokes Digital Media

Greetings Maggie Osborn, Maryland Philanthropy Network

It’s Code Red for democracy in America and in many places around the world. It’s Code Red for justice. And Code Red for the environment. It’s way past time for people in the nonprofit, helping, service, and justice sectors to come together and intentionally run for local office as champions of peace, equity, service, and justice. We are not going to charity our way of the crises that confront us. Attend the CivicLab's March 15 online workshop “Grassroots Campaigning 101” (6-8pm CST). The cost is $10 but no one will be turned away. Details at https://tinyurl.com/Camp-101-3-15-22.

Emily Kavanagh, HS SPED Social Studies Teacher, Annapolis, MD

If you have any questions, please feel free to post them in the chat!

The book Harold was referencing is his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Baltimore-New-Theory-Community/dp/1566391938

thank you!

https://everyday-democracy.org/

Harold, glad you mentioned and connected with the Study Circles Resource Center. I’m with Everyday Democracy (formerly the Study Circles Resource Center) and appreciate your comments. VAL

Here’s another link to bookmark, two interviews with Harold on Civic Infrastructure: https://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/progressing-social-justice-causes/

We’ll send out more links to resources from Harold and John to all attendees as soon as the event wraps :)

I agree with the positive approach!

This is very awesome. I work with youth and we represent all go that!!!

How does this look differently in rural communities?

How are neighborhoods defined?

@Bailey, a 'place with work to do'

There is an NGO that started in Chicago in the 1960’s called Institute for Cultural Affairs (ICA) that worked with Black Chicago neighborhoods to enable/encourage them to lift themselves up with their own gifts. ICA has worked with communities world-wide and still is active today.

More information on Paula Ellis and her book "News For Us": https://paulaellis.com/

This is Paulo Freire. Liberation theology. We could learn a lot by taking his thinking into our understanding of how to strengthen democracy

Can you post link to the Phase concept...

so many people I work with need to hear this!

Maybe call it the “sunshine government?”

Proud Nebraskan here! Here's more information on the Nebraska Community Foundation: https://www.nebcommfound.org/

As John is sharing, it's an incredible effort for collective change through citizen efforts.

Hi, Tom! We will make sure to send a link for more information on the Phase concept in our follow-up email

This concept works well in spaces (like Nebraska - I’m from there too) where people are suspicious of institutions like government.

Indeed – local governments belong to their citizens, not vice-versa. My book Toward Sustainable Communities is subtitled; Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments. https://newsociety.com/books/t/toward-sustainable-communities?_ga=2.196402668.11566960.1646854876-650357364.1646854876&sitedomain=us

one of our upcoming Learning Circles, on March 23, will focus on the civic language research by Philanthropy for Civic Engagement (PACE) that I was talking about

You can register for it here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/civic-language-perception-project-by-pace-tickets-288726848777

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3993260

^ The paper Harold mentioned!

Author page: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=624566

This is building an ecosystem not institutions!

+ Maggie's comment

Rich Harwood

Whyte and overlaps with collective continuance here?

How should (or shouldn't??) nonprofit organizations fit into this structure to facilitate, rather than hinder, authentic community development?

^^

Problem with this model and spreading it depends on creating institutions that can promote and facilitate. It also depends on providing education for all to be able to do this work.

We are trying to create institutional structure through NY State colleges and we have a new curriculum for K-12 on Civic Readiness.

To WK: that is a big issue in that non-profits all have an agenda and rather than partnering, some work as competitors for members and programs

would love to see any research into non-face-to-face organizing, specifically within disabled spaces!

Harold’s point about “otherness” is SO important to emphasize because. as Kip Holley of The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity has discussed in some of his published work, civic infrastructure sadly includes dominant and sometimes implicit mindsets, practices, and relationships that reproduce racist practices and barriers unless we intentionally disrupt them to ensure that the civic infrastructure and civic life are robust with anti-racism relationship and trust building, embracing and honoring diversity and multiculturalism andinclusiveness, and that we recognize and acknowledge histories of exclusion and oppression as essential to dismantling “otherness” at the root—not just in “word.” V. RAMOS

I hope these models will be used more frequently in community economic development. More neighborhood autonomy and use of their cultural and social characteristics can lead to greater economic prosperity.

What about Councils of Neighborhood Associations to create the network to connect neighborhoods with other organizations in the community?

Its less permanent in nature

We have a common sense of a calling for this work

This was really great! Thanks!

Fantastic!

Thank you!

Thank you so much for organizing! What a wonderful session!

Thank you SO much NCoC team and speakers for doing this!!

Thank you!

Count me in for the beer discussion. Great seminar!

Thank you!

Local & National Efforts to Get Out the Vote in 2022: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-national-efforts-to-get-out-the-vote-in-2022-tickets-292493835937Civic Language Perception Project by PACE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/civic-language-perception-project-by-pace-tickets-288726848777

Terrific! Many thanks!

Thank you Harold and John!

Thank you!!

even 2 hours wouldn't be enough with these guys!!

Thank you John and Harold!

Local & National Efforts to Get Out the Vote in 2022: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-national-efforts-to-get-out-the-vote-in-2022-tickets-292493835937Civic Language Perception Project by PACE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/civic-language-perception-project-by-pace-tickets-288726848777

Thanks for a great session!

Thanks Harold, Thanks John.

Many thanks!

Thank you!!

👏👏👏

Beautiful

Local & National Efforts to Get Out the Vote in 2022: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-national-efforts-to-get-out-the-vote-in-2022-tickets-292493835937Civic Language Perception Project by PACE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/civic-language-perception-project-by-pace-tickets-288726848777

Great facilitation Matt and great conversation John and Harold - thank you!

Appreciate you sharing the vision