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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
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Sam Pressler
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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…
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Sam Pressler
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Soren Duggan
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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…
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Sam Pressler
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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…
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Alex Green
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The paradox of “muscular institutions”
Why organizations that set the strongest boundaries on community behavior are also the best at bridging
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Jason Mangone
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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…
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Sam Pressler
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How cities can cultivate a sense of "membership" among their residents
Introducing “City Membership,” a new toolkit from the Democracy Policy Network and Connective Tissue
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Sam Pressler
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Pete Davis
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He gave and gave and gave — and asked for nothing in return
Remembering Charles McCaffrey, an extraordinary community-builder, veterans advocate, and storyteller
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Sam Pressler
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The Civic Homecoming
Encouraging "alumni" of a place to return to the town they once called home, reconnect with old friends, and renew a spirit of participation and…
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Sam Pressler
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From the “Great Connector” to the “Great Sorter”
Young Americans need more communal pathways to adulthood than the traditional, four-year college route
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Sam Pressler
Left alone
A reflection on my new report with the Survey Center on American Life: “Disconnected: The Growing Class Divide in American Civic Life”
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Sam Pressler
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Why every town should host an activities fair
Just as colleges host activities fairs to energize campus life, so too can town leaders host activities fairs to energize civic life
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Sam Pressler
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