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Conversation Guide: Trust In Elections
When you think about our voting practices, what hopes and concerns do you have for building trust in our electoral process? Trust is a critical component of building and maintaining healthy families, communities, institutions and countries. What happens when it starts to dwindle or is lost entirely? Trust is built over time. It can be…
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Election Essentials: Voting in Our Community
The following template was created by the Convergence Collaborative on Trust in Elections, a cross-sectoral and cross-ideological group of 13 leaders with deep expertise in elections at national, state, and local levels along with communications and behavior change experts. The group met six times from August 2023 to February 2024 to discuss approaches and solutions…
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DIY Resources
We all have the power to initiate change. There are so many ways and places in which YOU can create a culture of civity. The resources on the following page are just a springboard – use your imagination!
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EP Guide to Conversations Across the Partisan Divide
The term polarization describes any situation where people sort themselves into opposing sides, erase the complexity of the individuals as well as the issues, and then spiral into increasingly inhumane treatment of “the other side.” Any difference in views or identities can become polarized. Partisan polarization (e.g. Democrats versus Republicans) has become particularly harmful for…
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Resisting Polarization in an Election Season: A Four-Part Curriculum
The 2024 election cycle has begun. Each presidential campaign cycle seems to be more contentious than the last and this one is no different. We’re bracing for months of misleading TV ads, apocalyptic fundraising emails, and rough dinner table arguments. Presidential elections make the nation’s already-extreme political polarization even worse. Polarization is when people sort…
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New Children’s Book Series on Local Government!
It’s never too early to teach our kids about their local government. But there is a serious lack of civic education being taught in our schools and it’s hard to find any books to supplement learning in this subject area. Introducing the Know Your Local Children’s Book Series! Ava and her best friend, Ari the…
