NCDD member Steven Kull asked me to share this interesting job description with the NCDD community, for Executive Director of a new advocacy organization for renewing democracy. If you are interested in this position, send your resume and cover letter to Steven at [email protected]. Executive Director, New Advocacy Organization for Renewing Democracy Seeking an ExecutiveRead… Read more »
Amelia Law asked me to share this important announcement with NCDDers. If you have questions, you can contact her at 800-221-3657 or [email protected]. The Charles F. Kettering Foundation offers one-year research positions at their Dayton, Ohio offices to doctoral candidates and recent Ph.D.’s. Research Assistants and Associates receive excellent full-time compensation and benefits including medicalRead… Read more »
The following was posted on the National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI) website here, but I know they would like to see many people from the broader dialogue and deliberation community get involved! Read about taking part in an NIF national conversation about Economic Security: The Kettering Foundation, in partnership with the National Issues Forums Institute,Read… Read more »
This 12-minute video by Rachel S. Smith of The Grove is a great introduction to how visual/graphic recording can be done using the iPad. This practice is growing in popularity (and is becoming more and more affordable) in the graphid facilitation realm. Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRJG46hUAW8. Rachel covers her usage of several iPhone apps:Read… Read more »
This 2011 book by Dr. John Boik proposes two systems that would assist and encourage mass citizen cooperation, allowing citizens to claim and exercise their full power. The first system is a financial pool from which the socially-responsible businesses of the future can be funded. The second system is a people’s lobby, which would allowRead… Read more »
In principle, the amount of energy (time, money, etc.) invested in a group decision should be in proportion to the amount of impact it’s likely to have. The magnitude of the impact is a combination of how many people are affected, how deeply, and for how long into the future. Consensus decisions are best suitedRead… Read more »
I was pleasantly surprised to find a copy of Daniel Yankelovich and Will Friedman’s new book in my mailbox yesterday. Toward Wiser Public Judgment (2011) revisits and expands upon Yankelovich’s seminal 1991 book, Coming to Public Judgment, which argued that people advance through several distinct stages to form politically meaningful judgments about public issues. InRead… Read more »
Joseph McCormick, co-founder of Reuniting America, and humorist Steve Bhaerman have just released a new e-Book directly relevant to our national situation, Reuniting America: A Toolkit for Changing the Political Game. As old top-down ways of governing prove inadequate in the face of increasing complexity, it is a manifesto for a transpartisan “grassroots up-wising.” DownloadRead… Read more »
How might the proposed federal budget cuts effect the dialogue and deliberation community, and the larger democracy reform movement D&D is a part of? What can each of us do to fight for the programs we feel are critically important to our democracy — like public media, national service, civic education, and more? Take aRead… Read more »
The Red Lodge Clearinghouse (RLCH) website, at www.rlch.org, makes participation in natural resources decision-making easier than ever before. The RLCH website — originally founded in 2001 by renowned fashion designer and philanthropist, the late Liz Claiborne and her husband, Art Ortenberg — has served the needs of individuals and organizations engaged in collaborative natural resourcesRead… Read more »