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Discover online discussions, debates, and other events that cross partisan divides.
See featured events below, or discover hundreds more events at CitizenConnect.us.
Community Action: Executing The Perfect Event
American Conversation Coalition
This activism workshop led by Vice President of Grassroots Strategy Stephen Perkins will teach you how to use ACC’s resources to plan and pull-off a meaningful event in your community.
Register to receive a link to access the training after registering. Note: link will not be sent out until the day of the training.
Improve Texas Elections – August 16ember 7
Ranked Choice Voting for Texas
Join our bi-monthly meeting to learn more about ranked choice voting and how you can help implement this nonpartisan change in voting logistics that can make elections better, faster and cheaper. We host these bi-monthly meetings on Zoom to expand our network of supporters who can influence the Texas legislature to adopt ranked choice voting. We also hope to recruit volunteers to work on our effort. Join us and bring a friend!
Come join us for: Addressing Gun Violence In Public Spaces
American Public Square
Most citizens deplore the mass gun violence that is currently plaguing our nation. However, Second Amendment advocates fear their rights could be limited if laws addressing guns are changed. As this standoff continues, death tolls are increasing and anxiety levels continue to rise for citizens of all ages when in public spaces such as schools, houses of worship, retail stores and other public venues. What is the answer when it comes to mitigating gun violence in America?
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Student Leadership through Civics Learning: Implementing PB in Your School
The Participatory Budgeting Project
Are you interested in bringing participatory budgeting to young people in your community? PBP has a new tool to help you do just that! Community Leadership through Civics in Action: A Guide to Implementing PB in your School provides concrete support through self guided learning to run a PB process in your school. Join us to learn all about this new tool and how you can use it to start PB in your school!
Reformers Lead: NANR Masterclasses
National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers
Reformers Lead is a series of seminars to provide new expertise to budding election reform leaders.
Tickets on sale! Dates & topics below.
4/15: How to Be a Leader Worth Following
The foundation of good leadership is more than charisma, confidence, popularity, or productivity. This session explores the true nature of leadership and the skills and habits that will help you be the kind of leader others want to follow.
5/20: How to Communicate Well With Everyone You Meet
We all know communicati...
Who should pay for YOUR higher education?
Citizen Assembly
In our Citizen Assembly meetings we utilize a new political networking and organizing technology that makes it possible to include EVERYONE in the deliberative democracy decision-making process: Egora, “The Worldwide Stock-Market of Ideas”.
Please check out this 1-minute video for a quick introduction to Egora: https://youtu.be/3hEzvAL-xgI.
Register for Egora at: http://Egora-ILP.org.
Specific event information is posted in Egora in the “Meetings” screen.
Mindful Conversation Explainer Session
BreakBread World
Think of a difficult conversation you’re dreading. Or a challenging relationship you’re struggling with. Or a good relationship you want to be even better. Mindful Conversation is for Leaders, Professionals, Creatives, and Visionaries looking to take their conversations to the next level. We are hosting a free 1-hour sessions in advance of our September Mindful Conversation Workshop to meet your guides, Martha Williams and John Scilipote, and get a deeper sense of what Mindful Conversation c...
Polarization Past and Present: What’s Changed? What’s Possible?
Network for Responsible Public Policy
A successful Democracy is messy. People are diverse in countless ways and have individual, cultural, and group identities and points of view. That people came together through most of US history to bridge differences has been America’s achievement since its independence. Today seems different. Americans are deeply divided, despite sharing common hopes. What, then, is at the root of our current divide manifesting itself in life and death issues (Covid) and even an Insurrection? Is American de...
Host a Living Room Conversation
Living Room Conversations
Do you have friends, relatives, neighbors, students, or faith community members who you want to find a way to connect with? Living Room Conversations offers “do-it-yourself” guides to help you have meaningful, friendly and even joyful online discussions! Host your own online Living Room Conversation following their seven simple steps.
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