The Up to Us Campus Competition for US college/university students is now accepting applications for the Spring 2022 cohort!This Up to Us competition is a great leadership development opportunity for students to carry out civic engagement initiatives, develop knowledge in fiscal and economic topics, and engage their community in deliberative dialogue on our fiscal future. Students…
Citizen Assembly invites you to join us in the never-ending, limitless process of REAL deliberative democracy, thanks to the groundbreaking technology Egora, “The Worldwide Stock-Market of Ideas”! Egora-ILP.org With Egora EVERYONE is able to participate in democracy at their own convenience and at their own level of comfort, by… – developing their own political philosophy…
SKY Mindful Leadership – build your leadership capacity to promote peace in your community/organizationAbout this eventFour sessions of two hours each to learn profound breath and meditation practices to strengthen leadership skills, improve mental health and wellbeing, social connectedness, and help reboot our purpose as leaders and change-makers in the service of the collective good. The…
Join the Grand Challenge Initiative on Racial Justice and the Third Reconstruction (RJ3), in partnership with Millions of Conversations, for the first Racial Justice Teachout of 2022.’Haiti and the US: Political Pasts, Presents, and Futures’ will focus on the current crises in Haiti and its impacts on Haitians and Haitian Americans, how we got to…
Featuring: Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) Jessica L. Rich, Of Counsel, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP Dominique Shelton Leipzig, Firmwide Chair, Global Data Innovation team and Co-Chair, Ad-Tech Privacy and Data Management Practice, Perkins Coie Cameron F. Kerry, Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow-Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution There is…
Inadequacies in electric transmission policy cause cost increases, reliability risks, stifled innovation and suppressed clean energy access. Arguably the top priority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is to fix this, while Congress pursues the issue. At the heart of the matter is a system of local transmission monopolists under a regulatory system that…
Featuring: • Allison Clements, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission • Devin Hartman, Director of Energy and Environmental Policy, R Street Institute • Paul Cicio, President & CEO, Industrial Energy Consumers of America and organizer of the Electric Transmission Competition Coalition • Ari Peskoe, Director of the Electricity Law Initiative, Harvard Law School • Cynthia Bogorad,…
Do you ever wonder what it takes to run a Crossing Party Lines conversation? Are you curious to find out whether or not you have what it takes? Are you interested in taking your communication skills to the next level? Come to this info session and learn how Crossing Party Lines trains and supports our…
America’s two predominant political parties—Democratic and Republican—are billion-dollar economic and political engines with extensive influence on the policies that impact Americans’ daily lives. As the political divides between these parties grow, Americans are increasingly asking, “Do these parties truly represent me?” and “Who is really benefitting from this two-party system?” Join American Public Square at…
Join our national Writing Letters to the Editor Action Team to learn great tips for getting published and write together with other volunteers from your region and across the U.S. to raise visibility of American Promise and our fight for the 28th Amendment. Nonpartisan training/meeting on the 4th Thursday each month at 7:30 pm ET.
The U.S. Senate has once again failed to pass the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act. While we’re disappointed that senators failed to pass something as important as this bill, we’re so proud and grateful to the thousands of RepresentUs members who joined us in this fight. Remember: the Freedom to Vote: John R….
The homeless have many different faces: a family with children living in a car, a worker who lost his job who is living on friends’ couches or floors, a person with mental illness or drug addiction living on the streets, a man or woman living in an encampment ‘community’ with all their possessions, a teenage…