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	What is Civic Engagement
		Civic Engagement is based in the fact that all citizens can contribute ideas, energy and action for proposals for improving community and these proposals are more likely to be accepted if citizens have a role in shaping them.
		Civic engagement c reates win-win solutions to controversial community issues while engaging citizens in the political life of their community.
		Civic engagement is demonstrated by a personal ethic to cultivate service, fostering engagement in community or state and leaving a legacy of positive change.
	mt.gov /mcsn/about/civicengagement.asp (257 words)

	Western Skies - State of the Rockies, Part 1 (Civic Engagement) - April 9, 2005
		Civic capacity was measured by indicators like the number of charities and churches in a community and the presence of a local newspaper.
		Civic engagement was measured by how much money was contributed to charities and political campaigns, and rates of voting and library usage.
		The civic engagement dialogue, according to the El Pomar Foundation's Robbins, addresses an issue of national importance, that is of historical concern to the Rockies region-the role of government.
	westernskies.krcc.org /transcripts/4-9-2005/WS_492005_A.html (981 words)

	Civic Engagement
		The term "civic engagement" is not commonly used among psychologists, yet the focus on work for the common good is central to most of the divisions of APA.
		Service-learning and civic engagement are not the same thing in the sense that not all service-learning has a civic dimension and not all civic engagement is service-learning.
		Civic engagement encompasses a range of specific activities such as working in a soup kitchen, serving on a neighborhood association, writing a letter to an elected official or voting.
	www.apa.org /ed/slce/civicengagement.html (1190 words)

	Predictions Database
		Increasing civic involvement is not in the interest of traditional sources of political power in the U.S., so the existing power networks are going to put up roadblocks to delay developments along these lines until they put mechanisms into place that will preserve their power.
		It seems to me that there is less civic involvement of a substantive nature as people become dissociated with their local communities and shift their attentions to virtual communities that come and go, often at the whim of the larger media conglomerates.
		Civic involvement at the level of 'citizenship', or involvement in governance, is hampered by a growing sense of alienation from political processes and cynicism about what difference an ordinary person can make.
	www.elon.edu /predictions/q11.aspx (5323 words)

	Civic Engagement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Civic engagement can take many forms, from individual voluntarism to organizational involvement to electoral participation.
		The Character Education and Civic Engagement Technical Assistance Center website provides information on character education and civic engagement, as well as strategies that support academic goals and other reform efforts.
		Center for Civic Education - The mission of the Center for Civic Education is to promote an enlightened and responsible citizenry committed to democratic principles and actively engaged in the practice of democracy in the United States and other countries.
	www.pcc.edu /resources/service-learning/CivicEngagement.htm (662 words)

	Civic Engagement :: Seeing All the Options :: Vital Aging Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The term "civic engagement" is used to describe citizen participation in civic affairs.
		Civic engagement is the thread that weaves the fabric of community in a democratic society.
		Civic is about deliberation and public work aimed at some public issue or challenge.
	www.van.umn.edu /options/2d_civic.asp (372 words)

	Civic Engagement
		The challenge is particularly acute in rural environments where geo-political fragmentation (counties divided into multiple governmental units) often provides barriers to meaningful civic engagement and in urban areas where socio-economic fragmentation and social anonymity isolate residents from meaningful civic interaction.
		One approach to increasing civic engagement is to increase the knowledge and understanding that community residents have about the structure, functions, and operations of their local governments.
		Each approach citizen engagement from a different perspective; however, all agree that citizen disconnect from their government and public life is real and it is damaging to our communities.
	crawford.osu.edu /cd/cd/myweb2/civic_engagement.htm (1317 words)

	Institute for Ethical and Civic Engagement
		We also believe that institutions of higher learning can not only cultivate in their students an appreciation for the responsibilities and rewards of civic engagement but can also impart the knowledge and skills to make them highly effective participants in the creation of a more just society.
		We recognize that establishing ethical and civic engagement as a core value of a university will not be a simple process, involving only the introduction of a few new courses or a required reading list.
		We believe that the Institute for Ethical and Civic Engagement has the potential to significantly strengthen the educational community at the Boulder campus, to support other campuses in the university system in their efforts to foster ethical and civic engagement, and to serve as a national resource for universities pursuing similar ends.
	www.colorado.edu /iece/why_an_institute.html (955 words)

	Brookings Institution Press, Civic Engagement in American Democracy, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Civic activity requires no absence of partisanship or self-interest, and indeed nearly all proponents of civic life applaud the play of partisanship and self-interest as a reflection of the healthy contention necessary to democratic government.
		In this sense, the opposite of engagement is a superficial or reflex reaction.
		We also show that community and civic activities are embeclded in the organizational life of the professions to a greater degree than they were in the past.
	brookings.nap.edu /books/0815728093/html/163.html (2255 words)

	Civic Engagement @ Boise State University
		We must continue to embrace the role that universities play in teaching and practicing civic engagement, that is, engagement in our community, in all areas of our campus life.
		I look forward to the ideas and programs that will be forthcoming from the Civic Engagement steering committee, and encourage each of you to consider what your department or college could do to make the importance of civic engagement more clear to the students in your discipline.
		“Civic Engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference.
	civicengagement.boisestate.edu (715 words)

	YMCA Civic Engagement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		YMCA Civic Engagement is an ongoing effort to promote the development of civic engagement attitudes, skills, and behaviors, especially in young people.
		It's designed to reach young people directly and connect them with specific opportunities to act while simultaneously motivating and improving the abilities of YMCAs and the "civic engagement community" (political parties, nonprofit organizations, the media, schools, colleges, and universities) to engage young people in civic life.
		Like the new YMCA Civic Engagement Guide on which it is largely based, this web site is intended to serve as a comprehensive resource to assist YMCA staff and volunteers and their community partners in their efforts to promote civic engagement.
	www.ymcacivicengagement.org (109 words)

	CIRCLE \|\| Core Indicators Page
		First, they can be used to compare the pattern of civic engagement in a group of people to the pattern of civic engagement found nationally.
		Some types of civic values, motives, and behaviors may be better assessed through qualitative measures such as open-ended interviews where young people can describe their activities and intentions.
		If you are using the indicators to assess civic engagement in an organization or program, adding qualitative methods to your evaluation will give a richer picture of your program and the youth involved.
	www.civicyouth.org /practitioners/Core_Indicators_Page.htm (862 words)

	PACE - PHILANTHROPY FOR ACTIVE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
		Sign Up - Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement is a community of grantmakers and donors committed to strengthening democracy by using the power, influence and resources of philanthropy to open pathways to participation.
		Civic Engagement: There are many ways in which people participate in civic, community and political life and, by doing so, express their engaged citizenship.
		From volunteering to voting, from community organizing to political advocacy, the defining characteristic of active civic engagement is the commitment to participate and contribute to the improvement of one’s community, neighborhood and nation.
	www.pacefunders.org (289 words)

	Welcome to CampusCares (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		"Civic engagement means an institutional commitment to public purposes and responsibilities intended to strengthen a democratic way of life in the rapidly changing Information Age of the 21st century."
		"Civic engagement may be defined as the means by which an individual, through collective action, influences the larger society..."
		"For the purposes of this project civic engagement was broadly defined as, 'those activities which reinvigorate the public purposes and civic mission of higher education.' Civic engagement activities within higher education include objectives such as developing civic skills, inspiring engaged citizenship, promoting a civil society, and building the commonwealth."
	www.campuscares.org /serve/definitions3.html (395 words)

	Civic Mind™ Conference Speaker, Civic Participation, Nonprofit Organizations, Community Service, Democracy, Civic ...
		Launched in 2002 with funding from Pew Charitable Trusts, the YMCA Civic Engagement Initiative connects young people with opportunities for civic engagement and improves the ability of YMCAs and the civic organizations (political parties, nonprofit organizations, the media, schools, colleges, and universities) to bring young people into civic life.
		A team of 23 Civic Engagement Fellows offers training to YMCA staff and volunteers and creates new civic engagement resources and tools.
		The YMCA is "the largest not-for-profit community service organization in America, working to meet the health and social service needs of 17.9 million men, women, and children in 10,000 communities across the country.
	www.civicmind.com /wymca.htm (221 words)

	School of Government
		A volunteer work group of the Civic Education Consortium developed the NC Civic Index in response to a lack of comprehensive and meaningful measures of civic engagement.
		To establish a benchmark for civic education and engagement, the Consortium also surveyed 800 adults on the same issues.
		Information gathered from the telephone surveys was coupled with existing measures, such as voter turnout, charitable giving and diversity in public office, to create the first-ever statewide assessment of civic education and engagement.
	www.civics.unc.edu /civicindex (158 words)

	Civic Education and Political Participation Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Civic Engagement and Political Participation Program oversees several projects aimed at increasing voter turnout, political participation, and Americans' involvement in civic life.
		The Consortium is a statewide partnership of educators, schools, non-profit organizations, corporations, and political leaders committed to expanding and strengthening civic education and political participation in New Jersey.
		It was presented at a meeting of partners in the National Campaign for Political and Civic Engagement held at Harvard's Institute of Politics in.
	www.eagleton.rutgers.edu /CEPP/CEPPdescribe.html (425 words)

	Civic Engagement Seminar
		This online Civic Engagement Seminar is being used as part of the Mississippi Higher Education Consortium Lighthouse Partnership program funded through a Learn and Serve America Grant administered by the Mississippi Center for Community and Civic Engagement.
		The pre-survey is meant to provide a baseline for your knowledge of citizenship, civic engagement, and related ideas.
		The Mississippi Center for Community and Civic Engagement acknowledges two guides that heavily influenced and were drawn upon in creating this seminar: By the People and The AmeriCorps Guide to Effective Citizenship.
	www.usm.edu /ccce/CivicsSeminar/Seminar_Home.htm (934 words)

	Civic Engagement by Thomas Ehrlich
		Education for civic responsibility is not the only public purpose that should be promoted, but it is an especially important one these days because the current data on civic life in this country are devastating, particularly the data tracking the decline in political participation by young people.
		Because the less educated were less involved to begin with, their participation dropped even lower, from 20% to 8% among those who had a high school education, and from 7% to 3% among those who had not attended high school.
		Campuses should not be expected to promote a single type of civic or political engagement, but they should prepare their graduates to become engaged citizens who provide the time, attention, understanding, and action to further collective civic goals.
	measuringup.highereducation.org /2000/articles/ThomasEhrlich.cfm (2062 words)

	SCN Creating Community-Civic Engagement
		Civic Practices Network (CPN), Center for Human Resources, Heller School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare, Brandeis University, 60 Turner Street, Waltham, MA 02154, Tel: 617.736.4890, Fax: 617.736.4891, Email: cpn@cpn.org, Website: http://www.cpn.org/.
		ISCV works to apply America's historic civic values to contemporary issues and problems, to develop both theory and practical strategies aimed at building community, and to promote civic literacy through conferences, workshops and seminars.
		This final report of the National Commission on Civic Renewal, published in 1998, attempts to define the challenge of civic renewal, explores the current civic condition of America, and addresses themes and history of civil society, among other topics.
	www.sustainable.org /creating/civic.html (2026 words)

	Civic Engagement and Service Learning
		This site is intended to introduce faculty, teachers, students, researchers, clinicians, and community partners to the connections between psychological work, the pedagogy of service-learning, and issues of civic engagement.
		The information you find on this website represents the work of many people, a grassroots effort to bring service-learning and civic engagement to the discipline and the larger community.
		Information for the research-minded colleague who may be interested in a quick overview of where we are in the field today concerning the effectiveness of service-learning approaches.
	www.apa.org /ed/slce/home.html (249 words)

	N.H. Alliance for Civic Engagement - Home
		The New Hampshire Alliance for Civic Engagement seeks to enhance civic engagement in New Hampshire by strengthening the knowledge, skills, and behaviors essential for active citizenship, especially among young people.
		We have prepared a discussion guide (PDF/277KB) to assist teachers in leading a class discussion with students about civic engagement and what it means to them.
		We invite you to submit your civic education projects and lesson plans to us by completing the submission form submission form (PDF/148KB).
	www.nhcivicalliance.org (219 words)

	By The People: Why is Civic Engagement Important?
		By the People promotes civic engagement by supporting community groups and offering tools to foster dialogues in locations around the country.
		Today, there are a number of organizations focused on rejuvenating civic engagement and the focus on public policy issues.
		Other groups working to foster civic engagement include: The National Civic League; Pew Partnership for Civic Change; The Study Circles Resource Center; The Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America, an initiative of Professor Robert D. Putnam at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; and AmericaSpeaks.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/btp/articles/about_engagement.html (495 words)

	Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America, at JFK School of Government, Harvard University
		A signature effort was the multi-year dialogue on how we can increasingly build bonds of civic trust among Americans and their communities.
		We are currently in the midst of longer-term research projects on the inter-relation of workplace policies and practices on social capital on- and off-the-job, on the relationship between social capital, diversity and equality, and on religion and public life.
		In selecting this goal, the Saguaro Seminar is explicitly neither developing a civic engagement blueprint for the twenty-first century that specifies every action to be taken, nor producing a cookbook with thousands of potentially promising programs that may lead to civic engagement.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /saguaro (1385 words)

	SPPD - Research: Research Centers: Civic Engagement Initiative
		The Civic Engagement Initiative is housed at the School of Policy, Planning, and Development, and includes a group of scholars from SPPD, as well as from other schools and departments at USC.
		The vision of the initiative is to create more just and livable communities, to nurture a new generation of scholars to continue innovative research in the field, and to build community partnerships for improving the quality and effectiveness of civic engagement in Southern California, the nation, and around the world.
		The initiative's ultimate goals are to offer new ways of thinking about participatory democracy and governance, and to partner with residents and civic leaders to create living examples of how it works in local neighborhoods and institutions.
	www.usc.edu /schools/sppd/research/centers/cei.html (242 words)

	AAC&U Meetings \| The Civic Engagement Imperative \| About the Conference
		The Civic Engagement Imperative is designed to focus on the pressing question of the role of higher education in promoting civic engagement.
		The Civic Engagement Imperative is designed in collaboration with the Center for Liberal Education and Civic Engagement (the Center), a partnership founded in 2003 between AACandU and Campus Compact.
		Through its work the Center strengthens the study and practice of civic engagement in a diverse democracy and interdependent world.
	www.aacu.org /meetings/civic_engagement/index.cfm (194 words)

	GFCNS \| Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		PACE - Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement is a community of grantmakers and donors committed to strengthening democracy by using the power, influence and resources of philanthropy to open pathways to participation.
		We are interested in the full range of engagement strategies - community and youth organizing, civic education, voter education and mobilization, service-learning, national service, military service, public service, and volunteering.
		We believe philanthropy can substantially improve the impact of civic engagement investments by better understanding and promoting the relationships between and among different engagement strategies.
	gfcns.org (132 words)

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