These leading organizations in the dialogue and deliberation community are generously supporting the 2018 National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation. We are so grateful for their commitment to the conference and this community. We couldn’t do it without them!
Our Collaborators (donated $5000) are the Democracy Fund and the National Conference on Citizenship.
Our Co-Sponsors ($3000) are Essential Partners and the Interactivity Foundation.
Our Partners ($2000) are FaciliCase LLC, Jefferson Center and the National Issues Forums Institute.
And our Supporters ($1000) are Civic Dinners, Common Knowledge, Everyday Democracy, Journalism That Matters, Konveio, Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration, and the National Civic League.
Our Collaborators (donated $5000) are the Democracy Fund and the National Conference on Citizenship.
Our Co-Sponsors ($3000) are Essential Partners and the Interactivity Foundation.
Our Partners ($2000) are FaciliCase LLC, Jefferson Center and the National Issues Forums Institute.
And our Supporters ($1000) are Civic Dinners, Common Knowledge, Everyday Democracy, Journalism That Matters, Konveio, Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration, and the National Civic League.
Collaborators
The Democracy Fund
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The Democracy Fund is a bipartisan foundation established by eBay founder and philanthropist Pierre Omidyar to help ensure that the American people come first in our democracy. Today, technologies and innovations offer new opportunities for public engagement in a more vibrant democracy — even as serious challenges including hyper-partisanship, money in politics, and struggling media threaten the health of our political system. The Democracy Fund invests in organizations working to ensure that our political system is able to withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people.
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The National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC)
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Established in 1946, NCoC was chartered by Congress in 1953 to harness the patriotic energy and civic involvement surrounding World War II. NCoC is dedicated to strengthening civic life in America. It pursue its mission through a nationwide network of partners involved in a cutting-edge civic health initiative, our cross-sector conferences and engagement with a broad spectrum of individuals and organizations interested in utilizing civic engagement principles and practices to enhance their work. Connecting people for the purpose of strengthening civic life is NCoC’s goal. At the core of their joint efforts is the belief that every person has the ability to help their community and country thrive.
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Co-Sponsors
Essential Partners
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Essential Partners (formerly the Public Conversations Project) equips individuals and groups with skills for relationship that keep people connected while naming and claiming their differences. We design courageous conversations on the issues that matter most, and which many people feel ill-equipped to engage. We train facilitators and leaders, offering a skill set that can be adapted to many challenges and settings. We work with our partners in their contexts to build communities that find strength and new possibilities in both their shared concerns and their differences.
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The Interactivity Foundation
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At the Interactivity Foundation, we’re always asking, “what if…?” We use a small-group discussion process to help people collaboratively explore diverse perspectives and generate alternative possibilities. Our process is divergence seeking, expanding the ways to frame complex topics and expanding the possibilities for approaching those topics. Join with us in any of our three main areas of activity. Our Project Discussions are sustained series of citizen discussions to generate divergent innovative possibilities, with the results forming citizen discussion guides. Our Public Discussions are shorter, exploratory discussion series, often using the possibilities generated by our projects as springboards. Our Education activities focus on training students and others as discussion facilitators in our process, with a special emphasis on developing the vital 21st century skills needed to strengthen our civic infrastructure. We welcome partnerships to extend these activities collaboratively. We are a non-partisan, non-advocacy, non-profit operating foundation. www.interactivityfoundation.org.
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Partners
FaciliCase, LLC
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FaciliCase is a Case Management Software built for Restorative Justice and Community Mediation Organizations. Our program helps administrators effectively and securely manage cases, allows practitioners to access and update files, and provides powerful reporting tools that help you show the true impact of your work. We support statewide and multiple organization data collection and can customize reports.
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Jefferson Center
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The Jefferson Center is a Minnesota-based nonpartisan nonprofit that engages Americans directly to solve shared challenges and craft better policy. Their mission is to strengthen democracy by advancing informed, citizen-developed solutions to challenging public issues. They advance the public interest by creating opportunities for in-depth citizen education and deliberation that generates informed, inclusive solutions to today’s toughest problems. Their current work focuses on engaging citizens to shape health policy and healthcare implementation, participatory journalism and local media, climate change and extreme weather planning, and electoral and governance reform.
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National Issues Forums Institute
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Based in Dayton, Ohio, the National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI), is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that serves to promote public deliberation about difficult public issues. Its activities include publishing the issue guides and other materials used by local forum groups, encouraging collaboration among forum sponsors, and sharing information about current activities in the network. The institute has a distinguished group of 16 directors and officers drawn from such diverse fields like government, journalism, and secondary and higher education. Many NIFI directors also have extensive experience in neighborhood and civic organizations, libraries, and religious organizations.
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Supporters
Civic Dinners
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Civic Dinners brings people together over food for conversations that matter. Their purpose is to help create a more inclusive world where everyone feels invited and engaged in co-creating a better future. Civic Dinners works with cities, regions, state agencies, nonprofits, universities and corporations to design and launch community conversations that bring diverse people together to discover shared values, and motivate and mobilize collective action.
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Common Knowledge
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Led by founder Susan Stuart Clark, Common Knowledge specializes in bringing new combinations of people together to listen to and learn from each other. Leading together. We facilitate powerful new connections across sectors, silos, and social divides that generate breakthrough civic participation, employee and community engagement programs. Why? Every project shows that greater inclusion leads to greater innovation.
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Everyday Democracy
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Everyday Democracy has more than 25 years of experience offering structured dialogues to help communities work together to solve problems and build greater civic involvement. Our process incorporates use of a racial equity lens and other principles, including involving diverse groups of people, especially those who have been marginalized; opportunities for authentic listening and sharing; building capacity in communities; and connecting dialogue and deliberation to action and change. We offer discussion guides in how to use our process on issues such as poverty, police-community relations, racism, education reform and more, and how-to materials and coaching in our process for communities and organizations. Having seen the power of authentic connection among diverse groups of people, we cultivate community leaders and institutions to champion and carry out this work. We also convene practitioners from various fields to build a common vision of a democracy that works for everyone.
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Journalism That Matters
Journalism That Matters is a nonprofit that convenes conversations to foster collaboration, innovation, and action so that a diverse news and information ecosystem can support communities to thrive. We believe journalism matters most when it is of, by, and for the people. Since 2001, the organization has hosted unconferences that have inspired hundreds of varied media initiatives around the nation. JTM has a proven track record catalyzing disruptive innovation and fostering collaborations within the news industry and between communities and journalism organizations. Almost 1,500 alumni have participated in JTM-sponsored events that have inspired new ideas, projects, partnerships, and a variety of journalistic ventures such as the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, the Living Textbook Project, and the Seattle Globalist.
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Konveio
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Created by Urban Interactive Studio, Konveio helps change agents, community-builders and forward-thinkers turn their collaborations into action, not just a PDF! The software is a digital outreach platform that turns bland PDFs into actionable websites to better convey ideas, collect feedback and spark action. Konveio is one of the easiest-to-use engagement tools on the market. Users simply upload their PDFs to an online viewer so others can read and navigate them in their browser. They then add maps, videos, charts, and other rich content to make it more insightful and easier to explore. Finally, they can ask for feedback using embedded surveys or comments directly on the document.
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Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration
MOPC is a research center and the state office for public collaboration serving government agencies and citizens of Massachusetts as a neutral forum for conflict resolution and consensus-building and an administrator of public mediation programs. Established by statute in 1990, MOPC provides effective forums for collaborative planning, problem-solving and public engagement on contentious public issues, and builds capacity within state, regional and municipal government through evidence-based programming and expedited procurement of resources.
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National Civic League
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The mission of the National Civic League is to advance civic engagement to create equitable, thriving communities. We achieve this by inspiring, supporting and recognizing inclusive approaches to community decision-making. Founded in 1894 by a group of civic leaders that included Theodore Roosevelt and Louis Brandeis, the National Civic League is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. Today, more than ever, the work of the National Civic League is critical to helping create vibrant and healthy communities and a strong democracy.
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