IS IT POSSIBLE TO FIND COMMON GROUND WITH ANYONE? A LIBERAL DAUGHTER OF A CONSERVATIVE FAMILY SHARES HER STORY.Journalist Mónica Guzmán is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who strongly supports Donald Trump. We hear her personal story of how Mónica set out to understand what divides America and discovered ways to overcome divisions…
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…
Introduction to Online Dialogue Facilitation course instills participants with strong foundational skills to facilitate successfully online and in-person, including functions of dialogue and key principles of facilitation.April 4-May 2, 2022Duration4 weeksTime Commitment12 hours asynchronous 3 optional live sessionsLanguageEnglishApplication deadline, April 1st. Apply by March 27 for an early bird discount. Week 1Foundations of Dialogue FacilitationWeek 2Role…
The first of The Four Sacred Gifts is – Forgive the Unforgivable. Why? How? Must we? Forgiving wrongs, intentional, unintentional, historic, big and small is not a simple thing. For many of us this can be very challenging. There are so many ways that we are hurt by others and that we hurt others in our…
We’re looking for people who are passionate about innovative solutions to waste management—and who want to turn their ideas into real products and services for nonprofit organizations.The Waste No More Ideathon is an open call for innovators interested in finding solutions to solid waste management challenges. It aims to bring together forward-thinking, capable individuals with…
What does the invasion of Ukraine mean for democracy–abroad and at home? Join us for a series of 3 citizen-to-citizen conversations where we will help each other explore the different dimensions of what the invasion might entail for the prospects of democratic societies abroad and at home. These small-group conversations will focus not on the…
Featuring: Jerry Theodorou, Director, Finance, Insurance & Trade Program, R Street Institute Roosevelt Mosley, Principal and Consulting Actuary, Pinnacle Actuarial Services Mory Katz, Senior Vice President, BMS Group The insurance industry is unique in that the cost of its products—insurance policies—is unknown at the time of sale. Insurers calculate the price of their policies with…
It’s not too early to develop a plan to engage voters in your state and community! Use our templates and resources to create a plan that leverages your existing activities by adding voter education messaging. Get your staff and volunteers involved in voting too with policies, events, and initiatives crafted specifically for nonprofits.
Peter Pomerantsev, a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, takes us to the front lines of the disinformation age, where he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, “behavioral change” salesmen, Jihadi fanboys, Identitarians, truth cops, and many others. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, Pomerantsev finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great…
Join us for an inspiring and important conversation with Dr. Theodore R. Johnson, author of “When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America.”Dr. Theodore R. Johnson is the great-grandson of sharecroppers who, unfathomably, believed in what Johnson calls “the Promise,” that we Americans are created equal and that “each…
This March, Former Members of Congress and Women in International Relations at Tufts are pleased to present Cultivating Careers across International Relations, a panel of esteemed women in international affairs. In this discussion, we hope to connect women in positions of power in diplomacy and international business to aspiring IR professionals. We are humbled to…
Join Urban Rural Action’s Mid-Atlantic Dialogues Across Difference n 3/30 and/or 3/31.This will be an interactive Zoom workshop for college students, faculty, and administrators across the Mid-Atlantic.We’ll introduce our ABCs for Constructive Conversation, and in separate breakouts, students and faculty / administrators will explore different views on an issue about which they feel strongly.
Join Braver Angels Thurs Mar 31 @ 8 pm EST for a debate on the topic – “Resolved: Schools should reflect the communities they teach (racially, ideologically, etc)” The goal of public schools is to be a public good, but what does that mean in America today? Is there a shared set of lessons, and…