Category: civic engagement
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First Maryland Civic Health Index Report To Be Released
Friends, I am delighted to announce the imminent release of a project I have been working hard on for the better part of the year. My company (The Mannakee Circle Group) has been lead partner on the first-ever Maryland Civic Health Index. This report was developed as a partnership between The Mannakee Circle Group, the…
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My Remarks At The Civic Innovators Forum
I was fortunate enough last Thursday to be asked to speak at the Civic Innovators Forum, an invitation-only event at the Newseum, sponsored by the Case Foundation, Philanthopy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE), the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC), and SplashLife. I was asked to speak a bit about the paper I wrote for PACE…
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New Report on a White House / Case Foundation Conference: Promoting Innovation
I am delighted to announce that the Case Foundation has just released a new report that I wrote about a recent White House / Case Foundation conference. The report is called Promoting Innovation: Prizes, Challenges and Open Grantmaking. Here’s the Foundation’s description: In spring 2010, the Case Foundation together with the White House Domestic Policy…
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How To Handle Overeager Posts On Your Facebook Public Page
Here’s a question I get asked often by organization managers considering getting more active in social media — Facebook in particular. One best practice when it comes to Facebook Pages is to set the default setting so that visitors are looking at posts not only by the page owner but also by fans. But: “What…
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Join Me For A Webinar: 'An Emerging Relationship: The Executive Branch, Philanthropy and Civic Engagement'
As you may recall, in May my friends at PACE-Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement released a white paper I authored. Titled An Evolving Relationship – Executive Branch Approaches to Civic Engagement and Philanthropy, it is based on a briefing paper I wrote for a White House meeting earlier this year between leaders of the philanthropic community…
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Cognitive And Civic Surplus
Andrea Jarrell drew my attention to this talk by one of the deepest thinkers about the new structures in society, Clay Shirky. In this talk, Shirky describes the idea of cognitive surplus, and relates it to the way media gets produced and consumed. I urge you to watch the whole fifteen minutes, it is chock…
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New Report: An Evolving Relationship – Executive Branch Approaches to Civic Engagement and Philanthropy
I’m excited to announce the release of a new report I wrote for Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE), an important group of funders who do grantmaking in the civic participation and dialogue field. Titled An Evolving Relationship – Executive Branch Approaches to Civic Engagement and Philanthropy, it is based on a briefing paper I wrote…
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Mr. Boyd Connects: Why Leaders Choose Engagement
I recently shared a report with a colleague that I had not looked at for some time. I thought it might be interesting to my readers and friends. It’s called Mr. Boyd Connects, and it is a report on one legislator’s experience with seeking to engage his constituents in a different way than usual. The…
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What Would Citizen Centric Institutions Look Like?
As many of my readers know, I have been thinking with my colleague John Creighton about the role of institutions in public life. We have been discussing the rise of the citizen-centric world and the resulting erosion of our previous institution-centric lifestyles. In his most recent article at the Washington Times Communities in his blog…
Brad Rourke 