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We live here, we’re committed, and we’re accountable
A Q&A with Hillary Do, Founder & Executive Director of BOLT
Jun 5
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We live here, we’re committed, and we’re accountable
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May 2025
Building a new rite of passage for high school grads
A new toolkit on “State Service Years” from the Democracy Policy Network and Connective Tissue
May 29
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Sam Pressler
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Building a new rite of passage for high school grads
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From Organic Community to Synthetic Connection
Our media ecosystem has been intentionally designed to shift our time, attention, experiences, and very humanity from the real world to the digital…
May 22
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Sam Pressler
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Soren Duggan
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A New American Awakening
How the chaos of the phone-based life is giving rise to a quiet revolution in civic life—and what it will take to make it last.
Published on After Babel
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May 6
We’ve squeezed the “life” out of civic life
Civic renewal must begin with an account of how we, the professional managers and control freaks, have devitalized the civic ecologies we now seek to…
May 1
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Sam Pressler
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We’ve squeezed the “life” out of civic life
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April 2025
Peter D. Stid, Citizen, Rest in Peace
Reflections on a civic life well-lived.
Published on The Art of Association
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Apr 24
Putting the "neighbor" back in the neighborhood
A Q&A with Gerrel Jones, Founder & Executive Director of Renew Birmingham
Apr 10
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Creating community with disabled people, not delivering services for them
What we can learn from a village in India, a small town in Belgium, and the founders of the Disability Pride Parade about integrating disabled people as…
Apr 3
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Alex Green
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March 2025
The paradox of “muscular institutions”
Why organizations that set the strongest boundaries on community behavior are also the best at bridging
Mar 20
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Jason Mangone
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Can AI be designed to promote connection, community, and flourishing?
A Q&A with Ron Ivey, founder of HumanConnections.AI and Research Fellow at the Harvard Human Flourishing Program
Mar 13
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Sam Pressler
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Margo Miller
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Ron Ivey
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Can AI be designed to promote connection, community, and flourishing?
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February 2025
Beyond Bob
By granting Robert Putnam intellectual hegemony on all things community in America, we limit our understanding of the past and constrain our visions of…
Feb 27
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Sam Pressler
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The mysterious, magical, unpredictable human funk of being in community
A Q&A with Elise Granata, creator of the GROUP HUG newsletter and local community steward
Feb 13
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Sam Pressler
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