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With the People National Initiative
August 27, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Join Us Online August 27 at 1:00 p.m. EDT
Launching the With the People National Initiative
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Please join us on Thursday, August 27 at 1:00 EDT for the launch of With the People, a national initiative that supports deliberative discussions of issues that impact our communities and our nation.
With the People is based on the idea that democracy is strengthened when citizens, institutions, and governments find ways to talk and work with each other.
Register here for the webinar co-sponsored by NIFI and the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation.
With the People is launching in time for Constitution Day in September but will be available on an ongoing basis.
The National Issues Forums Institute is providing complimentary resources:
- Nonpartisan, multi-perspective issue discussion guides
- Moderator and convenor supports, including strategies for moving online
- Questionnaires
- “Constitution Connectors” that provide Constitutional context for public issues
- Research on the impact of deliberative dialogue on students’ learning and on civic life
With the People includes a wide range of current issues:
- Voting: Safeguarding and Improving Our Election System
- Policing: Ensuring Equal Justice and Fair Treatment
- Free Speech and the Inclusive Campus
- Immigration in America
- Back to Work: Rebuilding Our Economy
- A New Land: Historic Decisions from the spring of 1787
Discussions can be convened in a variety of venues:
- online or in-person
- on campuses, in communities, in classrooms
National Partners to Date
- All In Campus Democracy Challenge | Civic Nation
- The American Democracy Project
- Campus Compact
- Kettering Foundation
- NASPA–Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education
- National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
- National Institutes for Historically-Underserved Students
- National Issues Forums Institute
- Up to Us