E-News from Everyday Democracy (formerly The Study Circular)

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Making Every Voice Matter national conference hosted by Everyday Democracy on June 12-14 in Denver, Colo.

Meet and learn from today's leading thinkers in the fields of evaluation, deliberative democracy and structural racism at the Making Every Voice Matter national conference on June 12-14 in Denver, Colo. A few of our featured presenters and session topics include:

 

 

  • Keith Lawrence of the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change and Maggie Potapchuk of MP Associates exploring "Why Addressing Racism is Key to Making Progress on Other Issues."
  • Linda K. Bowen of the Institute for Community Peace and Sally Leiderman of the Center for Assessment and Policy Development co-presenting "Evaluation for Learning and Change" to share processes and tools community organizers can use to track and reflect on progress, and document successes and challenges.
  • Archon Fung of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Makani Themba-Nixon of The Praxis Project joining together to talk about the need to strengthen democracy in order to take on racism in the session "Making Progress on Democracy and on Race: A Two-Way Street."

This is just a taste of what the Making Every Voice Matter conference has to offer! Check out the rest of our presenters and sessions in our preliminary conference program.

And, don't miss our early-bird deadline! Make sure to register by May 12 to catch the lowest rates. Register today!

Tackle racial equity at the water cooler

This Thursday, DemocracySpace's water cooler will feature an hour of live blogging by people around the country who are working to build racial equity in their communities. Read more

Vote for Make It Your Own's four finalists

Make dreams come true for communities connecting and acting together in the Case Foundation's Make It Your Own campaign. Vote by April 22! Read more

Everyday Democracy now on Facebook and MySpace

Looking for friends within the dialogue-to-change movement on social networking websites? Then look no further than Everyday Democracy's new Facebook and MySpace pages! Read more

Spring 2008 Focus on Everyday Democracy now available

Read the latest news on dialogue-to-change efforts across the country; find out what "everyday democracy" means to some people in our network; and learn about the place of race in everyday democracy. Read more

A journey toward achieving racial equity

Barbara Yancey of Macon, Ga., shares her community's story from initiating a dialogue-to-change effort on racism to assembling people to take action on ideas presented at a recent forum. Read more

Developing a long-range plan in Seneca, S.C.

Seneca, S.C., is inviting residents to take part in dialogues to help the city create a new vision. "Participants will lay the important ground work for positive change in the city," says city planner Tamy Sanford. Read more

Creating a new vision in Keene, N.H.

Following the lead of Portsmouth, N.H., in creating a new city master plan with its residents, Keene, N.H., is preparing to engage its community in dialogues to shape its future. Read more

The place of race in everyday democracy: Now we’re talking

"The conversation on race is different this time," says Martha L. McCoy, Everyday Democracy's executive director. "It's more about the impact of racism on our communities, our institutions, and our policies, and less about 'can we all just get along.'" Read more


Everyday Democracy (formerly the Study Circles Resource Center) is a national organization that helps communities find ways for all kinds of people to think, talk and work together to solve problems. We work with neighborhoods, cities and towns, regions, and states, helping them pay particular attention to how racism and ethnic differences affect the problems they address. Created in 1989 by The Paul J. Aicher Foundation, Everyday Democracy has worked with more than 550 communities nationwide on many different public issues.

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