Submitted by Kettering Staff on Mon, 01/04/2016 - 12:22
Common Ground for Action, KF and NIF's new platform for online deliberation, has been steadily growing over the past year. In fact, demand for opportunities to try the new platform has been so strong that in November of last year we launched #cgafridays, a recurring series of CGA forums held each Friday for anyone who wants to participate.
Submitted by Claire Snyder-Hall on Fri, 12/11/2015 - 10:29
What motivates faculty to do civic engagement work at institutions that do not reward it? To learn more about the deep motivations and civic aspirations of faculty, Claire Snyder-Hall interviewed a diverse group of academics from all over the country who do civic-engagement work of various kinds, including deliberative pedagogy, service learning, public scholarship, and community engagement.
Submitted by Jack Becker on Thu, 12/03/2015 - 10:45
Tina Nabatchi and Matt Leighninger have helped shape public participation methods and thinking for a number of years. Already collaborators in assembling Democracy in Motion: Evaluating the Practice and Impact of Deliberative Civic Engagement (2012), they’ve now teamed up to author Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy (2015).
Submitted by Melinda Gilmore on Mon, 11/30/2015 - 11:54
The 2015 issue of Connections, edited by KF program officer and senior writer/editor Melinda Gilmore and KF director of communications David Holwerk, focuses on our yearlong review of Kettering’s research over time, or our “tribal history.” The issue includes stories that highlight all of Kettering’s program areas. We know from our research that when communities tell stories about their past, it can affect their behavior going forward.
Submitted by Kettering Staff on Mon, 11/23/2015 - 09:10
Lisa Strahley of SUNY Broome recently shared a video her college and a local middle school produced based on their experience using NIF's Historic Decisions curricula in their classroom. Historic Decisions issue guides take important decisions from American history and frame them, not as stories of great men making decisions for the country, but in terms of the difficult choices citizens at the time were confronting.
Submitted by Kettering Staff on Fri, 05/29/2015 - 09:57
By Andy Mead
Shortly after Cornell Brooks walked into the Cousins House for lunch, David Mathews handed him a package of papers that Brooks had written for the Kettering Foundation.
The papers were dated in the 1980s and showed the unmistakable signs of having been written on a typewriter.
“Oh my, “ Brooks said, “this was before spell-check.”
Submitted by Jack Becker on Thu, 01/08/2015 - 11:55
As attention to public deliberation has increased, one core interest of researchers has been evaluating the impact of deliberative processes. Researchers, practitioners, elected officials, and participants themselves want to know if what they’re doing matters. Does public deliberation impact policy? Does it change our attitude toward issues? Does it adhere to democratic ideals?
