CIRCLE Online Seminar - Resources

National Issues Forums (NIF) is a network of civic, educational, and other organizations, and individuals, whose common interest is to promote public deliberation in America. It has grown to include thousands of civic clubs, religious organizations, libraries, schools, and many other groups that meet to discuss critical public issues. Forum participants range from teenagers to retirees, prison inmates to community leaders, and literacy students to university students.

Tim Bonnemann's website.We are a digital engagement startup based in San José, Calif. (USA). We help organizations in the public, private and non-profit sector apply technology to drive collaborative governance, public participation and other types of participatory processes.

nteresting piece by Tim Smith, Director of Online Engagement @ ServiceNation "Do young people see government as a solution anymore?"

Ethelo is a powerful tool for finding agreement among diverse perspectives Designed to unite groups of all sizes, Ethelo is innovative, social, web-based software that provides a holistic, customizable approach to collective decision making and conflict resolution.

detailed info under "Designing the community education and outreach campaign" section

Community planning using a game platform -- has been shown to create more space for young people

Enter your address to find your polling place, build your ballot with our online voters' guide and much more! With our voters' guide you can see the races on your ballot, compare candidates' positions side-by-side, and print out a "ballot" indicating your preferences as a reminder and take it with you to the polls on Election Day. Check out our resources for military and overseas voters!

Tim mentions the CIR as an innovation in public dialogue and deliberation related to decision making

This group has a diversity of partners and collaborations working on a statewide effort to improve Civic Mission of schools.

Over the next few weeks, we'll be hosting a number of demo dialogues to give potential customers a chance to try the application hands-on.

The League of Women Voters of California Education Fund (LWVCEF) has received a grant from the Irvine Foundation for a project to develop a best practices manual for all of California's Official Voter Information Guides.

General info on CA collaboration with diverse communiities

All members of the public are invited to attend this free hearing. We are holding this meeting to receive feedback from you about the recommendations and to engage key local and regional stakeholders and opinion leaders in the conversation about access to quality civic learning in your area.

Facebook group for California statewide gorup.

The National Constitution Center is the first and only nonprofit, nonpartisan institution devoted to the most powerful vision of freedom ever expressed: the U.S. Constitution. Located on Independence Mall in Historic Philadelphia, the birthplace of American freedom, the Center illuminates constitutional ideals and inspires active citizenship through a state-of-the-art museum experience, including hundreds of interactive exhibits, films and rare artifacts; must-see feature exhibitions; the internationally acclaimed, 360-degree theatrical production Freedom Rising; and the iconic Signers' Hall, where visitors can sign the Constitution alongside 42 life-size, bronze statues of the Founding Fathers. - they have lesson plans and educational supports

e Library's mission is to support the Congress in fulfilling its constitutional duties and to further the progress of knowledge and creativity for the benefit of the American people. -- they have lesson plans and educational supports.

Has lesson lans and supports for those looking to engage youth. Our Mission | Board of Directors | Annual Report/Financial Statements | Executive Staff | Staff/Contact Us Our Mission Constitutional Rights Foundation (CRF) seeks to instill in our nation's youth a deeper understanding of citizenship through values expressed in our Constitution and its Bill of Rights and to educate young people to become active and responsible participants in our society. CRF is dedicated to assuring our country's future by investing in our youth today.

Mikva Challenge develops the next generation of civic leaders, activists and policy-makers. We do this by providing young people with opportunities to actively participate in the political process, because we believe that the best way to learn leadership and to learn democracy is to experience both.

The League position on the citizen's right to know

a history of the League's efforts to increase public participation in the are of natural resource management.