Crossing Divides: a wider look at confronting conflict
Civic Nebraska took part in a three-state pilot project that confronted systemic and structural forces that tend to exacerbate contemporary divisions.
2023 Summer of Democracy Reading List: Share your picks!
Every spring, we count on Nebraskans to nominate book titles for all ages that are fun and funny as well as serious and fundamental to our democracy.
Meet Sam Meier-Bates, Collective Impact Lincoln community organizer
The Lincoln native works with neighbors, attends and organizes community events, and engages residents in grassroots leadership development, neighborhood revitalization, and low-wage worker organizing. He also organizes volunteers for neighborhood revitalization projects, asset mapping, and leadership development.
National Week of Conversation: Bridging differences, advancing democracy
By engaging one-on-one and in small groups, we remind ourselves that the “other” is, just like us, a person with family, friends, hopes, fears, values, and worth.
‘It’s dictated by us’: Strengthening Democracy Awards 2023
April 13, 2023, was a night we won’t soon forget.
Moving toward productive, useful discourse
It’s in community where transformation happens. No labels, no titles, no assumptions. When we aren’t fixated on each other’s political ideology or assuming the values or beliefs of others, we get along and might even get some things done in the process.
Strengthening Democracy: Joseline Reyna
The DREAMer can’t currently vote because of her immigration status – but that hasn’t stopped her from working tirelessly to organize and advocate for ballot access for those who can.
Partisan or nonpartisan, everything is political
We are all in the political arena, whether we want to be or not. Ignoring politics is in fact a political act, in the sense that we concede our right to others to affect our world for good or for ill.
Strengthening Democracy: Kendall Bartling
The Nebraska U. student, who has registered more than 1,000 first-time voters and who leads get-out-the-vote efforts to ensure the state’s youth have a voice, is Civic Nebraska’s 2023 Young Civic Leader.
Strengthening Democracy: Rick Galusha
The co-founder of the Omaha Free Speech Society, Bellevue U. scholar, and champion of civil discourse is our 2023 Civic Catalyst.