As Burlington, Vt., becomes increasingly diverse, efforts are underway to help make the city s leadership reflect this new diversity. On June 23, the Social Equity Investment Project (SEIP), a ... Read more

For those of you who couldn t make it, we missed you! Last week, more than 250 civic leaders, policy makers, researchers, teachers, and students came together at the University ... Read more

On April 3, Everyday Democracy, along with 322 other organizations and a total of 29,000 people in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut participated in the YWCA s Stand ... Read more

Everyday Democracy's 2009 "Communities Creating Racial Equity" Learning Exchange brought together eight communities from around the country to share and learn together on what it takes to build racial equity. ... Read more

This week, Everyday Democracy hosted a learning exchange for the "Communities Creating Racial Equity" initiative. The two-day event gave participating communities the opportunity to... ... Read more

If you live in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York, consider joining the YWCA’s “Stand Against Racism” event this Friday, April 3. Stand Against Racism is a movement that aims ... Read more

What better way to share your news of your dialogue-to-change effort than on YouTube! This week, a YouTube video created by Woodbine, Iowa, came to our attention. The community came ... Read more

I came across this story a few days ago, and I thought it would be something you all would enjoy/appreciate/be inspired by/be touched by. I was sitting on ... Read more

Last Thursday, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents named Roseann Mason, director of Community Dialogues in the Center for Community Partnerships at UW-Parkside, as one of their first-ever winners ... Read more

Julie Fanselow, who managed and wrote content for DemocracySpace until last September, recently wrote an article for the National Civic Review titled Community Blogging: The Next ... Read more

America is anxious, for obvious reasons. But in the chilly media stream that rushes over us every day, endlessly re-looping the litany of horribles, and what politicians and opinionistas ... Read more

This is an excerpt from Everyday Democracy s Tell Us Your Story interview with Penny Woods. Young people in Hot Springs, S.D., don t have much ... Read more

Last Friday, Anne Gibbons, an associate chaplain at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Va., wrote a column in the Lynchburg News Advance about the power of small groups to ... Read more

Last, but not least, there is a need for audacious hope… William James said it so well in that grand and masterful essay of his of 1879 called ‘ The ... Read more

The Democracy Prep Charter School, a public school in New York City for middle school students, is hosting an inauguration event today for the students at the academy as well ... Read more

Martin Luther King Day is a great day to remember that our lives are not just for ourselves, but for the good of others and the community as a whole. ... Read more

Everywhere we turn, the media is abuzz with news about the upcoming presidential inauguration Tuesday and events this weekend. One of the most exciting aspects of the inauguration is the ... Read more

While millions are expected to attend the presidential inauguration ne x t week, one community has created a way for community members to be ... Read more

In June, we included a note in an open thread about a meeting called Vermont Leadership at the Crossroads , which drew about 40 historical leaders ... Read more