A community-based enterprise created by nonprofit Hacienda, Verde is partnering with the city of Portland on a model that fuses green infrastructure with building community wealth, offering people with limited skills and work history a pipeline to good jobs and even businesses of their own...

Infrastructure Week has become a running gag, but it's no laughing matter; our infrastructure is not only key to overcoming a surprising array of challenges we face, but may be our best chance to unite again...

Originated in the town once known as "the armpit of the Northeast," See Click Fix has made civic engagement user-friendly in more than 45,000 communities, especially hard-hit metropolises like Oakland and Detroit...

Quietly, the McCormick Foundation's Shawn Healy has become a driving force and orchestrator behind the leading edge of the civics education revival...

With twice as many followers as residents, and an overall reach of 25M, the small city of Roanoke, Virgina (pop. 90,000) has taken civic engagement viral, and done it with an in-house staff of one...

With input from more than 7,000 educators and education supporters,CivX Now has literally put K-12 civics on the map, a crowdsourced geography intended to point the way to the ultimate destination...

For the past six weeks, the world's largest representative democracy has been showing the world's oldest how it's done...

The greatest untapped resource to deal with all of America's problems, including the divisions between us, is Americans...

The bright side of our current political environment is that there has been a renewed focus on civic engagement. In this edition we highlight selected activities in this emerging era of 21st century citizenship...