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Kettering Foundation What is the role of professionals and institutions in democratic life? Professionals in the city


Kettering studies the role in a democracy of specialized, highly skilled, often very technical professionals and of the institutions and organizations in which they function.



Journalism and Democracy
Journalism's essential work is not simply providing information.

Civil Investing
Civil investing strives to encourage the sort of grassroots activities that are the hallmark of a strong democracy.

Public Academy
If students are to acquire a civic education that results in the understandings, skills, and habits of self-rule, they need to be educated in institutions that value civic education.

Scholarship and Public Life
Many institutions of higher learning are revisiting the roles they might play in rebuilding the foundations of American civil life.

Organizations and Civic Engagement
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publications

Agent of Democracy: Higher Education and the HEX Journey
David W. Brown and Deborah Witte
A Civil Investing Strategy for Putting Communities in Charge
Ramon E. Daubon
Investing in Public Life: A Report from the 2003-2004 Dialogues on Civil Investing
Scott London
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