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"America’s challenges are not going to be addressed until there’s the civic capacity to do so". Check out this insightful article from Governing which explores what civic capacity is and why communities should tap into it: https://ow.ly/xijz50Ru5FA

Today is Juneteenth✊🏾✊🏽, a holiday to recognize June 19, 1865, when all slaves in the United States were freed by executive decree. Take time today, on what many call our country’s second Independence Day, to celebrate how far we have come as a nation. Learn more about Juneteenth at tinyurl.com/bdhntc73. #Juneteenth #Freedom #RichlandCountySC

"Whoever takes the helm on 5 July needs to work with us to restore that faith and make sure people once again feel they have a voice and a stake in the decisions that matter." 🗣 Check out Rhiannon Bearne, executive director of policy and representation's latest addition in this week's The Journal! She discusses the critical importance of rebuilding public trust and ensuring community engagement in decision-making. 🧾 Read the column here: https://okt.to/8cHqro

The Trust for Civic Life and $8 million to fund civic participation in rural communities are examples of what philanthropy can accomplish when funders work together. That was the goal when Stephen Heinz, president of Rockefeller Brothers Fund, asked Carnegie Corporation of New York to join a funder collaborative a year ago, resulting in an early commitment of $3.5 million from the foundation. Today the collaborative has 15 funders. The Trust’s work is grounded in research that was funded by philanthropy and conducted by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Its report titled "Our Common Purpose" made a strong impression. It provides pragmatic, nonpartisan approaches to countering mistrust and division in our society. A second round of grants to support civic entrepreneurs is planned for later this year, and if all goes as planned, the collaborative will invest $50 million over the next five years. https://lnkd.in/ebyPnCVt

What did the recent Conservative and Labour party conferences mean for social connection, community power and loneliness? Our Head of Campaigns and Policy, Sam Dalton went to both! In this latest article he shares what he learnt at the conferences 👇 https://lnkd.in/gJHhuXxi

As we develop reparative spatial justice strategies that reckon with, repair, and transform the racist foundations of land and housing policies in the United States, we are reminded that it is essential that we decommodify, rematriate, and increase accessibility to land for Indigenous, Black, and POC communities. Join PolicyLink and the Center for Ethical Land Transition as we discuss how communities, funders, policymakers, and landowners can advance this work, so that we may all deepen our relationships to land and upend the logics of dispossession that underpin our property system. https://lnkd.in/gFPfpq4y

What we must remember is that city governments are composed of people — individuals who live and breathe within our communities, share the same hopes, fears and aspirations as the residents they serve. Full blog here: https://lnkd.in/g5P5F7Wx

Ignace is participating in a willingness study which will follow a process of deliberate democracy that is focused on the community's agency to choose and right to participate. Watch the video to learn more. https://nwmo.co/3Ogb8rA

One type of slavery is gone. Abusive practices just take a different form at @CAQH. CAQH Core, for example, subjugates small medical practices by "creating" Jim Crow rules that make it impossible for small practices to file complaints against BIG + POWERFUL insurance companies that violate Federal law (CAQH CORE standards are adopted as federal regulations under HIPAA Administrative Simplification requirements; CAQH Core is designated as a "Standard Setting Organization"). When Sarah Ahmad + the Board of Directors at CAQH make the rules fair to small practices, she can talk about "freedom" + "equality." Everyone knows that CAQH stands AGAINST Equality. Acts speak louder than words Sarah Ahmad. CAQH Core has failed the American people. It's designation as a "Standard Setting Organization" should be revoked.