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    Svetlana Chernikova

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  • "We can improve the conversation and that directly impacts people's lives."

    Martin Carcasson

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  • "In our research, we look at what ideas community leaders have about the role of the public in deliberating issues and forming policy."

    Alberto Olivas

  • "When I'm working with the different Pacific Island communities, I must make sure that their way of being is always respected and regarded."

    Moerangi Falaoa

  • "You can't sustain an urban community without the voice of its citizens."

    Louise Spiegel

  • "Students have more of a sense that 'maybe we can do that, too.'"

    Katy Harriger

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 07/26/2010

Select Writings of Li Shenzhi Published By Kettering Press

Select Writings of Li Shenzhi Published by Kettering Press Li Shenzhi (1923-2003), a leading Chinese statesman and academic, was a premier architect of China’s liberal intellectual revival in the late 1990s and an uncompromising campaigner for political reform and democracy in China.    In the early 1950s, Li was foreign policy advisor to Premier Zhou Enlai, contributing to and promoting the moderate “Bandung Line” then being pursued. In 1957, his appeal to the government ...

 06/25/2010

Hawaiian State Senator Joins Kettering Board

New Member on the KF Board  At the June 11 board meeting in Washington, D.C., Kettering's board of directors elected Les Ihara Jr. of Honolulu, Hawaii, to the board. Ihara is a state senator in Hawaii and a long-time proponent of citizen-based democratic politics. As a former board member of the National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI), he has been known to include citizen deliberation on current issues as part of the legislative process in Hawaii's state senate.

 06/11/2010

David Mathews' Preface to Scott London's New Book Available for Download

David Mathews' Preface to Scott London's New Report Available for Download Kettering Foundation President Dr. David Mathews has written a preface for Scott London's upcoming report, Doing Democracy. You can download it here.    For more information on Scott or his report, please visit  http://www.scottlondon.com  

 01/22/2010

Connect the Dots: A National Student Conference

Connect the Dots: A National Student Conference on Embedding the Democratic Practices of Public Dialogue, Deliberation, Community Problem Solving and Action March 3-6, 2010, Point Clear, AL   The conference goal is to provide a forum for students learning about how to embed democratic practices in their everyday work and lives. Students, faculty members, program administrators, practitioners, and community members are encouraged to attend! Sponsored by The David Mathews Center for Civ ...

 12/08/2009

National leader in rural health care elected to Kettering Board of Directors

Dr. Sandral Hullett, a national leader in rural health care, elected to Kettering Foundation Board of Trustees Sandral Hullett, MD, a national leader in providing health care for under-served and underinsured communities, has been elected a member of the Board of Directorsof the Kettering Foundation, , a research foundation with offices in Dayton, Ohio, Washington, D.C., and New York City. In a career that has spanned working as a National Health Service Corps physician treating an undern ...

 10/20/2009

New Report From Elena Fagotto and Archon Fung: Sustaining Public Engagement

  When sufficiently agitated, Americans can, and often do, mobilize—at least on a one-time basis—to find solutions for critical community problems. A new research report, issued this week by Everyday Democracy and the Kettering Foundation, provides insights into how public engagement initiatives can grow into a regular practice, used to address a variety of community issues.     “Sustaining Public Engagement: Embedded Deliberation in Local Communities,” was written by Harvard Uni ...

 10/13/2009

Elinor Ostrom: A Brief Appreciation

When Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University was named a co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, those of us at the Kettering Foundation nodded in agreement. The foundation long ago recognized the relevance of the work being done through the remarkable workshop at Indiana University that Elinor and her husband Vincent created and directed for over 30 years. They have participated in Kettering research exchanges, including a visit last December by Elinor Ostrom and her student M ...

 10/05/2009

Join the Conversation on the Future of Health Care!

How can we get the health care we need? How can we pay for it? Across the United States, people say that health care costs are too high, too many are uninsured, and too many don’t get the care they need. But what do we do about it? How can we the public make our voices heard? Now there is an online opportunity for concerned citizens to engage in a constructive conversation about the future of our health care system.  This is a national, non-partisan dialogue run by the National Issues Foru ...

 09/11/2009

Kettering Foundation's Health Care Documentary Now Online

The Kettering Foundation's documentary on health care that was produced earlier this summer in conjunction with ThinkTV can now be viewed online. Coping With the Cost of Care: Where Is the Public Voice? is a half-hour long and is broken into three 10-min. segments. The documentary traces the history of the public's voice on health care, and examines the issues that people are still grappling with. The focus is not on any particular policy option, but on where citizens are in making up their mi ...

 09/01/2009

Deliberative Town Hall Much More Calm, Constructive Than Many Other Town Halls

Many of the Town Hall meetings on health care held around the country in the last month have been mostly useless to citizens actually trying to engage with their elected representatives.  Meetings designed to be discussions have degenerated into shouting matches: people on both sides of the issue come prepared, at best, to debate; at worst, to intimidate. Based on positive past town hall experiences with New Mexico First, and hoping to avoid confrontations, Senator Jeff Bingaman asked NMF ...

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