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  • "The process of involving people, even if they have different points of view, maybe conflicting points of view, is very important."

    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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 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 ...

 09/01/2009

Deliberative Choicework Online

The NIFI-Ascentum online healthcare workbook is now online at http://nifi-healthcare.dialoguecircles.com.   Log on and check it out!    This workbook helps readers learn about the issues, share experiences, and reflect on the tradeoffs inherent in any option we choose for reforming the health care system. It is an interactive experience and takes about 30 minutes to finish.

 08/13/2009

Sebelius responds

HHS Secretary Sebelius calls Kettering health care report "very insightful", "very useful" Following Kettering President David Mathews' White House briefing on the H1N1 pandemic flu, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote to thank Mathews for what she called "very useful insights on the findings of how citizens think". "As the Administration moves forward," wrote Sebelius, "this information will be very useful as we tackle the many challenges facing our health care syst ...

 08/05/2009

Kettering Testing Pandemic Flu Dialogue Guide

In response to concerns about the H1N1 virus as the new school year approaches, Kettering is testing a brief guide for public deliberation on the subject. Tentatively titled How Can My Family Be Protected from a Pandemic Flu: How Should We React?, the draft guide will be used in two communities in Ohio prior to further edits.

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