Recognizing Middle School Teacher Civic Engagement Champions
Why middle school civics teachers may be the most important "deciders" in the course of the rest of the century, and the Institute's first step in recognition...
18 April, 2019
21st Century Citizenship, Apr 2019: Redistribution
Issues of opportunity, the common good, and government’s role in promoting each have been fundamental since the founding of the Republic. How they are addressed and who benefits has not always been simple or straightforward, a dynamic that continues to the present day...
07 April, 2019
Taxing The Rich
Connecting the dots that need to be connected, and why connecting them will be more of an arc than a line...
29 March, 2019
Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact
At the US epicenter of the greatest global threat, the collaboration between four counties in southeast Florida is providing a potential regional model for dealing with climate change, not only in the US, but the world, says no less than Barack Obama...
23 March, 2019
Social Finance
Social Finance is bringing together local governments, non-profits, tech companies, and impact investors to create new programs with a catch: either the program works, or no one gets paid...
23 March, 2019
Rural-Urban Connections
Rural-Urban Connections Strategy and Center of the American West find ways we can all live, even work together, at least sometimes with a smile...
23 March, 2019
Phoenix, Arizona
The denizens of one of America's hottest cities band together to make life in the land of the sun more bearable, modeling an innovative all-in approach that could become a standard nationwide...
23 March, 2019
Participatory Budgeting Project
The Participatory Budgeting Project engages more than 300,000 citizens in 22 cities deciding how to spend more than $230M in public monies on hundreds of community projects across the U.S...
23 March, 2019
Green Bay Packers
America's smallest pro football team is also its most successful, and there's a reason for this that could turn what are typically municipalities' worst investments into some of their best, argues Vox Media's Henry Druschel...
23 March, 2019
Estonia
One of our smallest nations has one of the biggest footprints/capita in cyberspace. Take a whirlwind tour of the country that may be providing a preview of the future of governments planet-wide...
23 March, 2019