The American Democracy Project (ADP)
A national, multi-campus initiative that seeks to foster informed civic engagement in the United States. The project seeks to create a greater intellectual understanding and commitment to participate in the civic life of the United States. ADP is a sponsor of the annual Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting.
The American Association of Colleges and Universities
AAC&U is a strong proponent of promoting civic engagement as an essential foundation for learning through its Center for Liberal Education and Civic Engagement and national projects such as Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility, Bringing Theory to Practice, and our transatlantic partnership with the Council of Europe.
Bringing Theory to Practice (BTtoP)
BTtoP is an independent Project established in 2003 in partnership with the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Through campus grants, convenings, research, and community-building, BTtoP advances holistic, transformative, meaningful education that fosters student well-being and civic consciousness.
Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE)
CIRCLE was founded in 2001 with a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts and in Tufts University's Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life. It conducts and funds research on civic engagement, which has practical implications for those who work to increase young people's engagement in politics and civic life. CIRCLE is also a clearinghouse for relevant information and scholarship.
The Center for the Living City
Launched by a group of activists and academics in 2005, the Center for the Living City holds the singular distinction of being the only urbanist organization founded in collaboration with Jane Jacobs. In the years since its founding, the Center has become a leading global urbanist organization. Advancing social, environmental and economic justice forms the core of its purpose. The Center works to invite all perspectives, particularly those of the marginalized, to participate in the creation of solutions that are empathic, responsive, and community-based.
College Promise
A national, non-partisan, non-profit initiative that builds broad public support for funding the first two or more years of postsecondary education for hard-working students, and ensuring those students have access to quality educational opportunities and supports.
The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC)
CIC is the major national organization that focuses on providing services to leaders of independent colleges and universities as well as conferences, seminars, and other programs that help institutions to improve the quality of education, administrative and financial performance, and institutional visibility.
Echoing Green
Through a two-year fellowship program, Echoing Green invests in and supports emerging social entrepreneurs to launch new organizations that deliver high-impact solutions to society's most difficult problems.
eJournal of Public Affairs
The eJournal of Public Affairs is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, open-access journal published by Missouri State University and affiliated with the American Democracy Project. By providing an academic, nationally refereed venue for such work, the eJournal aims to advance the status of public scholarship.
Facing History and Ourselves
Delivers classroom strategies, resources and lessons that inspire young people to take responsibility for their world.
The Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights
A diverse group of faculty at all levels, at institutions throughout the United States. As an initiative housed under the Scholars Strategy Network, they aim to ensure student voting rights.
Generation Citizen
Empowers young people to become engaged and effective citizens. Generation Citizen inspires civic participation through a proven state standards-aligned action civics class that gives students the opportunity to experience real-world democracy.
Imagining America
Artists and Scholars in Public Life is a national consortium of colleges and universities committed to public scholarship in the arts, humanities, and design. Public scholarship joins serious intellectual endeavor with a commitment to public practice and public consequence.
NASPA: Student Affairs Professionals in Higher Education
The core of NASPA’s mission is to provide professional development for student affairs educators and administrators who share the responsibility for a campus wide focus on the student experience. NASP is a sponsor of the annual Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting.
The National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE)
NSLVE offers colleges and universities an opportunity to learn their student registration and voting rates and, for interested campuses, a closer examination of their campus climate for political learning and engagement and correlations between specific student learning experiences and voting.
National Issues Forums
The Forums bring people together to talk about important issues that range from small study circles held in peoples' homes to large community gatherings modeled on New England town meetings.
The Roosevelt Institute
A non-profit, non-partisan national network of campus-based student think tanks. Its members conduct policy research on the pressing political issues facing our world.
Scholars Strategy Network
The Scholars Strategy Network is an organization of university-based scholars who are committed to using research to improve policy and strengthen democracy.
The Students Learn - Students Vote (SLSV) Coalition
The SLSV Coalition is made up of campus, nonprofit, community, student, and philanthropic leaders who help student voters get more involved in our democracy. They lead collaborations across organizations while coordinating national programs and campaigns, and distributing resources that go directly to organizers on the ground.
Up to Us
Up to Us is dedicated to building a sustainable economic and fiscal future for America’s next generation. Up to Us doesn’t just educate and engage - it empowers. Our unique program provides emerging leaders a platform for facilitating a collaborative dialogue on the country’s most vexing challenges.
YVote
YVote is sparking a cross-partisan youth voting movement through which young people connect their passions and beliefs with how they can make a difference, at and beyond the ballot box.Working with racially, economically, and politically diverse youth across the five boroughs of New York City, YVote participants identify and unpack issues they’re passionate about–such as affordable housing/gentrification, school desegregation, mass incarceration–examining connections between these issues and the question of “why vote?”
A national, multi-campus initiative that seeks to foster informed civic engagement in the United States. The project seeks to create a greater intellectual understanding and commitment to participate in the civic life of the United States. ADP is a sponsor of the annual Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting.
The American Association of Colleges and Universities
AAC&U is a strong proponent of promoting civic engagement as an essential foundation for learning through its Center for Liberal Education and Civic Engagement and national projects such as Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility, Bringing Theory to Practice, and our transatlantic partnership with the Council of Europe.
Bringing Theory to Practice (BTtoP)
BTtoP is an independent Project established in 2003 in partnership with the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Through campus grants, convenings, research, and community-building, BTtoP advances holistic, transformative, meaningful education that fosters student well-being and civic consciousness.
Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE)
CIRCLE was founded in 2001 with a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts and in Tufts University's Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life. It conducts and funds research on civic engagement, which has practical implications for those who work to increase young people's engagement in politics and civic life. CIRCLE is also a clearinghouse for relevant information and scholarship.
The Center for the Living City
Launched by a group of activists and academics in 2005, the Center for the Living City holds the singular distinction of being the only urbanist organization founded in collaboration with Jane Jacobs. In the years since its founding, the Center has become a leading global urbanist organization. Advancing social, environmental and economic justice forms the core of its purpose. The Center works to invite all perspectives, particularly those of the marginalized, to participate in the creation of solutions that are empathic, responsive, and community-based.
College Promise
A national, non-partisan, non-profit initiative that builds broad public support for funding the first two or more years of postsecondary education for hard-working students, and ensuring those students have access to quality educational opportunities and supports.
The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC)
CIC is the major national organization that focuses on providing services to leaders of independent colleges and universities as well as conferences, seminars, and other programs that help institutions to improve the quality of education, administrative and financial performance, and institutional visibility.
Echoing Green
Through a two-year fellowship program, Echoing Green invests in and supports emerging social entrepreneurs to launch new organizations that deliver high-impact solutions to society's most difficult problems.
eJournal of Public Affairs
The eJournal of Public Affairs is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, open-access journal published by Missouri State University and affiliated with the American Democracy Project. By providing an academic, nationally refereed venue for such work, the eJournal aims to advance the status of public scholarship.
Facing History and Ourselves
Delivers classroom strategies, resources and lessons that inspire young people to take responsibility for their world.
The Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights
A diverse group of faculty at all levels, at institutions throughout the United States. As an initiative housed under the Scholars Strategy Network, they aim to ensure student voting rights.
Generation Citizen
Empowers young people to become engaged and effective citizens. Generation Citizen inspires civic participation through a proven state standards-aligned action civics class that gives students the opportunity to experience real-world democracy.
Imagining America
Artists and Scholars in Public Life is a national consortium of colleges and universities committed to public scholarship in the arts, humanities, and design. Public scholarship joins serious intellectual endeavor with a commitment to public practice and public consequence.
NASPA: Student Affairs Professionals in Higher Education
The core of NASPA’s mission is to provide professional development for student affairs educators and administrators who share the responsibility for a campus wide focus on the student experience. NASP is a sponsor of the annual Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting.
The National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE)
NSLVE offers colleges and universities an opportunity to learn their student registration and voting rates and, for interested campuses, a closer examination of their campus climate for political learning and engagement and correlations between specific student learning experiences and voting.
National Issues Forums
The Forums bring people together to talk about important issues that range from small study circles held in peoples' homes to large community gatherings modeled on New England town meetings.
The Roosevelt Institute
A non-profit, non-partisan national network of campus-based student think tanks. Its members conduct policy research on the pressing political issues facing our world.
Scholars Strategy Network
The Scholars Strategy Network is an organization of university-based scholars who are committed to using research to improve policy and strengthen democracy.
The Students Learn - Students Vote (SLSV) Coalition
The SLSV Coalition is made up of campus, nonprofit, community, student, and philanthropic leaders who help student voters get more involved in our democracy. They lead collaborations across organizations while coordinating national programs and campaigns, and distributing resources that go directly to organizers on the ground.
Up to Us
Up to Us is dedicated to building a sustainable economic and fiscal future for America’s next generation. Up to Us doesn’t just educate and engage - it empowers. Our unique program provides emerging leaders a platform for facilitating a collaborative dialogue on the country’s most vexing challenges.
YVote
YVote is sparking a cross-partisan youth voting movement through which young people connect their passions and beliefs with how they can make a difference, at and beyond the ballot box.Working with racially, economically, and politically diverse youth across the five boroughs of New York City, YVote participants identify and unpack issues they’re passionate about–such as affordable housing/gentrification, school desegregation, mass incarceration–examining connections between these issues and the question of “why vote?”
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