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Report from the CIRCLE meeting on Civic Skills and Federal Policies

As I mentioned earlier, yesterday I attended CIRCLE’s meeting on civic skills and federal policies.  It was an intense, full day of discussion with amazing participants on how to increase civic skills in Americans, and CIRCLE also released this fact sheet with new findings on the distribution of civic skills.  The ideas for new initiatives, …

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Political Passions Run High, but Civic Skills Run Dry

Tomorrow at the National Press Club in Washington I have the privilege of meeting with other experts, policy makers, government officials, and advocates to discuss how to improve civic skills, a topic near and dear to my heart and the heart of democracy.  New research will be released tomorrow indicating that access to civic skills …

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Nastiness, Name-Calling, and Negativity…

FirstEval assisted Allegheny College in a survey on civility in politics that was released yesterday.  Despite our recent incivility in politics, Americans really do want civility in the public sector.  The full report can be found here.  Allegheny’s press release can be found here, and USA Today picks up the story here.

Nonprofit Business Summit

Yesterday I attended the Phoenix Business Journal’s Nonprofit Business Summit.  Our opening speaker reminded us of the economic challenges nonprofit organizations face in Arizona.  While demand for nonprofit services are up 25%, donations are down 22%.  This is a disconnect.  As well, University of Arizona economist Marshall Vest indicated yesterday that Arizona’s recession is technically …

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Blurring Boundaries of Nonprofit Organizations

As long-time observers of nonprofit organizations, we are used to thinking of organizational management and leadership styles as strictly applying to either clearly corporate, for-profit companies, or to nonprofits.  Today those lines are blurring with “next generation nonprofits” and the rise of the social entrepreneurship movement.  Nancy Moses does an excellent job here defining next …

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New Standards for U.S. Education

Today, an expert panel announced its recommendations for common statewide standards in American educational achievement. Forty-eight states participated in writing the Common Core State Standards Initiative. The Initiative recommends common concepts and skills for all students to achieve by grade level. If implemented, these standards will go far to make states’ standardized tests comparable from …

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