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Active Citizenship, Empowering America's Youth, provides curriculum information that teaches the rights, responsibilities, and civic values of U.S. citizenship, and includes a service learning group project in which students research and develop a solution for a real problem in their community.
The Arts of Citizenship Program, University of Michigan, believes that the work of scholars and artists in the arts and humanities can do much to enrich civic and community life in America. It seeks to integrate local projects and national cultural debates, ambitious research with community collaboration.
The Reubin O'D. Askew Institute seeks to assist the citizens of Florida in examining the critical issues facing Florida and in assessing ways to address them. The programs of the Institute are designed to deepen and broaden the thinking of participants and policy leaders in Florida and to aid them in making decisions that will enhance the future of the state.
The A. L. Burruss Institute of Public Service attempts to reach city, county, regional, state, and federal agencies and elected officials, as well as non-profit and community service organizations, by providing technical assistance and applied research services in a diversity of areas ranging from gerontology to lake management studies within North Atlanta and Northwest Georgia.
Campus Compact is a coalition of college and university presidents committed to helping students develop the values and skills of citizenship through participation in public and community service.
Citizenship & Service Learning, Southwest Missouri State University, is defined as a type of integrated experiential learning that pairs a discipline-based course to a related service work that benefits an external government or service organization. It is part of the Public Affairs Mission at SMSU that seeks to develop an increasing awareness of the public dimension of life, produce a broad literacy in the primary public issues, and establish a campus environment where the awareness of public questions is nurtured and their discussion is encouraged.
The Close Up Foundation's mission is built on the belief that students need a "close up" experience in government. Close Upâs national, state, and local experiential government studies programs strengthen participantsâ knowledge of how the political process works, increase their awareness of major national and international issues, and motivate them to become actively involved in the world around them.
The Council for Excellence in Government brings together individuals, institutions, and ideas from both government and the private sector to help develop creative leadership and management in government and raise the quality of the dialogue between public and private institutions and individual citizens. Programs often employ innovative concepts and methods tested in the corporate arena, translating them into a government context.
Democracies Online promotes the development and sustainability of online civic participation and democracy efforts around the world through experience, outreach, and education.
The J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership, University of Georgia, is dedicated to developing statewide what many believe to be the single most important ingredient for positive change in Georgia: Leadership. The institute works with three primary groups in the development of leadership skills and capacity: adults in community and regional settings, youth, and members of organizations and other special audiences.
The Florida Institute of Government, is a statewide network of 12 university & community college affiliates, whose mission is to provide quality research, training and technical assistance programs to state and local governments.
The Institute for the Study of Civic Values is a non-profit organization established to promote the fulfillment of America's historic civic ideals. The Institute for the Study of Civic Values has been a leader in developing innovative programs for neighborhood revitalization and empowerment. It also collaborates with the Center for Civic Networking to create an online Civic Network in America.
The Institute of Government, University of North Carolina ö Chapel Hill, is the largest and most diversified university-based local government training, consulting, and research organization in the United States. A focal point of the Institute's work is planning, administering, and teaching in continuing education courses for local and state government officials in North Carolina.
National Civic League is a 106-year-old nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works directly with communities to foster cross-sector collaboration and grass roots problem solving. NCL's mission is to strengthen citizen democracy by transforming democratic institutions.
National Council for the Social Studies is the largest association in the country devoted solely to social studies education. It aims to provide leadership, service, and support for all social studies educators.
The Partnering Initiative on Education and Civil Society, is a coalition of 40 leading education associations and organizations that have agreed to work together on a plan to integrate civic values into virtually every aspect of the educational experience. The plan emphasizes service learning, bringing more voices into educational policy-making, and incorporating civil society values in the curriculum, among other things.
Presidential Classroom participants observe the federal government at work, witness the development of public policy and explore the roles of citizens, lawmakers, experts, associations and businesses in the world's most successful democracy. Presidential Classroom takes students behind the scenes of our nation's capital for seminars and discussions featuring members of Congress, Presidential appointees, journalists and other Washington insiders and names in the news.
Project Citizen is a portfolio-based civic education project for middle school classes presented by the Center for Civic Education and the National Conference of State Legislatures Research.
The Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, University of Virginia, is a private, non-profit organization that offers education to community leaders as they prepare for public service. The Institute focuses on three areas: Public Policy, Ethics, and Campaigning.
The Student Governance Summit is a site where students and adults across the world can discuss student governance issues, and learn from the various solutions and problems suggested. As well as being an ever growing information source for student governance problems, this site also provides the information needed to put on an actual Student Governance Summit.
The John C. Stennis Institute of Government, Mississippi State University, recognizes the need for an organization to assist governments with a wide range of issues and to better equip citizens to participate in the political process. The Institute seeks to integrate research, service, and teaching activities to improve government in the state, as well as promote the training of students who seek careers in public service.
Teaching Politics Techniques & Technologies is devoted to increasing the quality of teaching and learning about politics in higher education settings.
The Urban Center's programs and initiatives offer applied research, technical assistance, and training to public officials, community leaders, and the private sector with the objective of enhancing the quality of life in urban communities locally, regionally, and statewide.
The Whitman Center for Public Service delivers outreach services with a mission to assist government and not-for-profit agencies in meeting their responsibilities to citizens in the West Florida area by making available high quality outreach services for reasonable fees.
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Bonner Foundation Civic Engagement Academic Certificate Program seeks to facilitate the quality and intensity of students’ college service experiences while promoting civic engagement on campus and in the community through students’ example and influence.
The Center for Civic Education is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational corporation dedicated to fostering the development of informed, responsible participation in civic life by citizens committed to values and principles fundamental to American constitutional democracy. The Center specializes in civic/citizenship education, law-related education, and international educational exchange programs for developing democracies.
The Center for Informed Politics is a nonprofit educational organization providing civic educational resources for teachers.
The Center for Voting and Democracy studies how voting systems affect participation, representation and governance, and disseminates their findings to civic organizations, elected officials, journalists and the general public.
The Civic Practices Network is a collaborative and nonpartisan project dedicated to bringing practical tools for public problem solving into community and institutional settings across America. Born of the movement for a "new citizenship" and "civic revitalization," CPN includes community organizers, civic journalists, youth activists, grassroots environmentalists, business people and civil servants working collaboratively to create safe and sustainable local economies.
The Democracy Network, a project of the League of Women Voters Education Fund and Grassroots.com, is an interactive website designed to improve the quality and quantity of voter information and create a more educated and involved electorate.
Evote.com is a private political news site that promises to make American politics the most complex and exciting sport in the world!
Grassroots.com, Inc., is a non-partisan, private venture-backed technology and services company, providing Internet-based communications and mobilization products to political organizations and their constituents.
The PBS Democracy Project brings together political information on current campaigns, political decisions, and the history of American democracy. The site offers an interactive student competition and teacher resources, and a forum through which users can share thoughts with each other.
Political Information is a targeted search engine for politics, policy & political news.
Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization. The two-fold mission of Public Agenda is to: help leaders better understand the public's point of view on major policy issues; help citizens better understand critical policy issues so they can make their own more informed and thoughtful decisions.
Speakout.com is a non-partisan Internet activism, site and online opinion research company that offers a wide variety of news and information links as well as activism tools allowing aggregated messaging to a vast array of public officeholders, candidates, business and news executives.
Vote.com is a fully interactive site designed to offer a voice on important public issues and other topics. When users vote on a topic listed on the site, an e-mail message is immediately sent to significant decision makers.
Votenet.com is a comprehensive source for political information, campaign solutions, and Internet-based advocacy tools. Votenet's suite of products include highly sophisticated applications for corporate intranets, Web-based membership management, email message casting, grassroots lobbying, and campaign finance research.
Vote-Smart aims to provide abundant, accurate, and relevant information about candidates seeking public office through their voting records, campaign finances, position statements, backgrounds, and the evaluations done on them by over 100 competing special interest groups.
Voter Information Services is a non-partisan, non-profit organization with a goal to help voters understand the effects of the federal laws enacted (or not enacted) by the U.S. Congress on our everyday lives, and the role of the individual members of Congress in the legislative process.
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The James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship, Purdue University, has as its mission to assume a national leadership role in preparing new generations of American citizens. The focus is to provide programs, institutes, activities and resources for educators to implement more powerful citizenship programs and opportunities that result in active student involvement in schools and communities.
The Annenberg Public Policy Center, the University of Pennsylvania is home to a community of scholars that address public policy issues at the local, state and federal levels. The Center has four ongoing foci: Information and Society, Media and the Developing Mind, Media and the Dialogue of Democracy, Health Communication.
The Ashbrook Center is an academic forum for the study, research and discussion of the principles and practices of American constitutional government and politics. The center's programs are directed to the scholarly defense of individual liberty, limited constitutional government and civic morality, which together constitute our democratic way of life.
The Center for American Women and Politics, Rutgers, is a research, education and public service center. Its mission is to promote greater understanding and knowledge about women's participation in politics and government and to enhance women's influence and leadership in public life.
The Dirksen Congressional Center is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization that seeks to improve civic engagement by promoting a better understanding of Congress and its leaders through archival, research, and educational programs.
The Center for American Politics and Citizenship, University of Maryland, brings together faculty, researchers, political practitioners and students who study political institutions, processes, behavior, and public policy, with a goal toward using social science research to improve democracy in the United States.
The Center for American Politics and Public Policy, UCLA, is committed to promoting significant research on American politics and public policy, to developing programs to educate students in the political process of the United States, and to providing ideas, scholarship, and knowledge to policy makers and other interested publics.
The Center for American Politics and Public Policy, University of Washington, conducts academic and policy-relevant research in American politics and public policy processes to engage the community in policy-relevant conversations. We are interested in how public decisions are made, how they are justified and communicated to the public, and what consequences these have for the course of public policy.
The Center for Civil Society Studies, Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies, seeks to encourage the development and effective operation of nonprofit, philanthropic, or "civil society" organizations. The Center carries out its work through a combination of research, training, and information-sharing both in the United States and throughout the world.
The Center for Communication and Civic Engagement, University of Washington, is dedicated to research, the creation of citizen resources and student-designed learning experiences that develop new areas of positive citizen involvement in politics and social life. Its primary focus is to understand how new information technologies can supplement more traditional forms of communication to facilitate new forms of civic engagement.
Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University, provides an integrated teaching, research, and study program focusing on Congress and the presidency and the interactions of these two basic American institutions.
The Center for Democracy and Citizenship, University of Minnesota promotes the idea of citizenship as public work to renew the promise of democracy. The Center's work can be grouped under 3 rubrics: Civic Laboratories, Civic Missions, and Dissemination and Communications Networks.
The Center for Governmental Studies, University of Virginia, at the is a non-partisan, public-interest institute with a three-part mission of political research, reform, and education. The Center bridges the gap between the theory and the reality of politics with an innovative blend of lectures, forums, scholarly research, and community outreach.
Center for Policy Studies, Case Western Reserve University, endeavors to stimulate policy-oriented research at CWRU and to encourage the many policy scholars across the University to interact with each other and with the larger public beyond the campus.
The Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan, is an interdisciplinary and collaborative social science research unit that seeks to understand, measure, analyze, and model individual behavior and the role of institutions within the context of contemporary society's social, political, and economic processes. CPS facilitates, supports, and promotes a broad range of research projects including: democratic transitions, political and social mobilization and participation, global environmental change, international peace and security, and surveys of attitudes on social and political issues and concerns.
The Center for Politics and Public Affairs, Millersville University, promotes the study of politics and public policy through public for a dealing with a wide variety of public matters, lectures, a legislative fellow program, an internship program, and an opinion research center that produces public affairs and political surveys for a variety of clients, especially media and research foundations.
The Center for Presidential Studies, Texas A&M University, is a nonpartisan, interdisciplinary research center dedicated to the study of the American presidency, American government, and public policy.
The Center for the Study of the Presidency is a non-partisan and non-profit corporation. The Center seeks to further the understanding of the American Presidency and related institutions and, thereby, to educate, illuminate and inspire leaders for today and tomorrow.
The Center for the Public Deliberation serves as an affiliate of the National Issues Forum (NIF) network. The CPD is non-partisan. Working from a communication perspective, CPD staff and students focus on the process of deliberation, not necessarily its product. Deliberation requires safe places for citizens to come together, good and fair information to help structure the conversation, and skilled facilitators to guide the process.
The Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California - Irvine, fosters academic research and training on topics of empirical democratic theory. The Center's activities focus around three central themes: the relationship between citizens and their government, the performance of democratic governments, and the consolidation of new democracies. The Center hosts research conferences, sponsors faculty research, publishes a research paper series, and facilitates research and teaching on democratic themes.
Center for Urban Initiatives and Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, supports collaborative and interdisciplinary research on urban policy issues with an emphasis on Milwaukee and southeastern Wisconsin. CUIR serves as the home for several major research grant and evaluation projects, and conducts applied research for local governments, community-based agencies and departments of state government. It facilitates partnerships between UWM faculty, staff, and students and the Milwaukee area community.
Choices for the 21st Century Education Project, Brown University is a multifaceted educational program that seeks to engage the American public in the consideration of international issues and strengthen the quality of civic life in the United States.
Citizenship 2000, George Mason University, focuses on the role of the university in fostering citizenship and civic engagement. It is part of the universityâs commitment to be a learning centered institution that provides students and the region basic values of learning, community and citizenship.
The Committee for the Study of the American Electorate is a Washington-based, non-partisan, non-profit tax exempt research institution with a primary focus on issues surrounding citizen engagement in politics.
The Democracy Online Project, George Washington University promotes the development of U.S. online politics in a manner which upholds democratic values. It aims to establish a research base for the study of online politics and promote an online public space where good campaign practices and democratic values may thrive.
The Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University, develops new knowledge and understanding of emerging topics and themes in American politics and government in order to encourage more responsive and effective leadership. The Institute conducts innovative and practical research, educates students, informs policymakers and the public.
The Electronic Policy Network is a consortium of top public policy organizations and advocacy groups, that provides timely information and leading ideas about the policies and politics that shape our world.
The University College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University
Instituce for Civic Discourse and Democracy promotes citizen deliberation on tough political and social issues, resulting in increased citizen participation, reflection, communication, and respect.
The Institute for Public Affairs, University of Illinois-Springfield, helps direct educational, research, and service efforts of the campus toward the solution of public problems facing the state and local communities.
The Institute of Public Affairs, University of South Carolina, seeks to engage the resources of the University to inform decisions affecting the public interest and to strengthen civic leadership through research, education, and direct assistance.
The National Election Studies, University of Michigan, produces data on voting, public opinion, and political participation to serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists concerned with the theoretical and empirical foundations of mass politics in a democratic society.
The North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the goals of a better-informed public and more effective, accountable, and responsive government. Based on its research, the Center makes recommendations for improving the way government serves the people of this state.
The John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy, University of Chicago brings together concerned theoreticians and reflective practitioners to analyze the fundamental principles and current practices of American politics, along with a thoughtful examination of classic philosophical, theological, and literary texts.
The Political Communication Lab, Stanford University, conducts research on politics, public opinion and the media. The lab develops and administers experimental studies of public opinion and political behavior through the use of both on-line and traditional methods.
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, State University of New York is actively involved in public policy research on the role of state and local governments in American federalism and the management and finances of states and localities in major areas of domestic public affairs.
The Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawaii, facilitates and supports applied interdisciplinary research addressing critical social, economic, and environmental problems primarily in Hawai`i and the Asia Pacific region. The institute collaborates with faculty and students and with other educational and research institutions; federal, state, and county agencies; regional and international organizations; and the private sector.
Social Studies Development Center, Indiana University has a mission to improve social studies education in elementary and secondary schools. Toward this end, SSDC projects involve research on teaching and learning, development of curriculum frameworks and instructional materials, and diffusion of ideas about education in the social studies.
Teledemocracy Action News + Network, Auburn University, the website of the Global Democracy Movement, dedicated to the creative use of modern technologies to empower citizens to have authentic input into political systems at all levels of governance around the world.
The Vanishing Voter Project, Shorenstein Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, seeks to reinvigorate the presidential campaign through research-based proposals designed to improve its structure. The project has the goal of broadening and deepening citizens' involvement in the presidential selection process.
Carl Vinson Institute of Government, The University of Georgia, mission is to improve the understanding, policymaking, and administration of government in a democratic society. In carrying out this mission, the institute works with government officials, educators, and ordinary citizens in Georgia, in other states, and internationally.
The Weissman Center for Leadership, Mount Holyoke College advances initiatives that engage students critically with important problems; that foster their commitment to public and civic life; that build their abilities to analyze, argue, and promote their views; and that increase women's preparation to take action and bring about positive change in their chosen professions and communities.
Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy, Rutgers University is dedicated to sustaining democratic theory and extending democratic practice, by fostering interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and methodologically diversified research and promoting pilot projects aimed at developing innovative democratic institutions and practices.
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