The Florida Civic Advance is the only member network exclusively serving Florida communities by promoting civic excellence practices. As a member, your organization’s board and staff or you as an individual will benefit from year-long access to civic programming, conversations, research and information to enhance your effectiveness and help advance civic excellence in Florida’s communities. The initial program was set forth in this 2014 concept paper: Florida Civic Advance Concept Paper June 2014
Florida Resources
The Case for Civic Advance in Florida
Florida ranks among the lowest states in terms of engaging in civic practices
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St Petersburg Civic Health Study
The League of Women Voters, supported by the Foundation for a Healthy St Petersburg worked with many community organizations and stakeholders to gather qualitative and quantitative data on civic health in 2019 and share with the community the results. The study findings underscored how its residents engage in civic and public spaces can differ greatly by race, income, and neighborhood.
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FCA 2016 One Table Summit Report
In early 2016, Allegany Franciscan Ministries initiated a series of conversations with leaders in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors to explore a collaborative approach to improving citizen engagement and advancing civic innovation and change in the greater Miami area.
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FCA 2015 Inaugural Summit Report
Participation in civic life is at the heart of democratic governance and vibrant, healthy communities.
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Civic Health in Florida
Participation in civic life is at the heart of democratic governance and vibrant, healthy communities.
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2011 Florida Civic Health Index: The Next Generation
Florida Millennials have the depressing distinction of being the most disengaged group in one of the most civically disengaged states in the nation. in terms of volunteerism, voter turnout and other measures of civic engagement, Florida has consistently ranked near the bottom among the 50 states.
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Building Bridges in University Community Service
Building Bridges in University Community Service, Engagement and Collaboration, 2009, Stuart Langton & Bob Jones
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A Tale of Two Cities 2010: Civic Health in Miami and Minneapolis-St Paul
Participation in civic life is at the heart of democratic governance and vibrant, healthy communities.
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2008 Florida Civic Health Index: Beyond the Vote
This report was written and produced through collaboration between The Florida Joint Center for Citizenship and The National Conference on Citizenship.
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National Resources
National Conference on Citizenship
NCoC’s Civic Health Initiatives elevates the discussion of our nation’s civic health. We work with national, state, and city partners to measure how much people trust their neighbors, are active in their communities, and interact with their government. By measuring a wide variety of civic indicators, we educate Americans about our civic life and motivate people to strengthen it.
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Civic Health Project, Stanford University
Civic Health Project is dedicated to reducing toxic partisan polarization and enabling healthier public discourse and decision-making across our citizenry, politics, and media.
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Civic Engagement and the Civic Circle 2022
To better understand civic engagement and how to motivate individuals and communities to become more engaged, Points of Light commissioned Data Shine, an independent evaluation consulting firm, to conduct a literature review.
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Civic Virus: Why Polarization is a Misdiagnosis 2022
Conventional wisdom–and virtually every politician and media outlet in the country–will tell you that Americans are more polarized than ever before. Conventional wisdom is wrong. Rich Harwood explains what's really going on in America and outlines a practical, hopeful path forward.
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2021 Veterans Civic Health Index
The Mission Continues is a national veterans organization dedicated to empowering veterans as community-based leaders. We invest in veterans by equipping and training them to volunteer, mobilize and lead others in service.
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Civic Health Index 2021: Citizenship During Crisis
A Report by Civic - In partnership with the National Conference on Citizenship and the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and Democracy Initiative and the Partnership for American Democracy.
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Pandemic to Prosperity
History has shown that large-scale crises accelerate pre-existing trends and permanently change societies and civic life.
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Black Women that Did: A Call to Investing the Civic Health of Black Women in America
Black Girls Vote (BGV) is a national, nonpartisan organization with an objective of engaging, educating, and empowering Black women, particularly those 18-25 years old, to activate their voice by utilizing their vote.
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Civic Index – 4th Edition, 2019
The Fourth edition of the National Civic League’s Civic Index is now available. For more than 30 years communities of all sizes have used the Civic Index to measure their civic capital – the formal and informal relationships, networks and capacities that enable communities to solve problems and thrive.
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Civic Deserts: America’s Civic Health Challenges. 2017
In 2000, Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone sounded an alarm about the decline in civic life within a generation and issued a challenge for renewal of American community.
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New Paths for Civic Engagement - Beyond the Ballot Box- Most Iconic US Public Square Initiatives
Civic engagement, broadly understood, is about so much more than casting a vote. It’s about getting our voices out there. Listening to others. Expressing beliefs on the ground and in public, not only on paper. It's about participating meaningfully in issues that we all share a stake in. This year, Mellon grantees showed what happens when people come together to think expansively about civic engagement—through the arts and humanities—not just to live vibrantly, but to surface the stories and solutions that will help us face the most daunting challenges of our time.
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Civic Engagement in the Digital Age, Pew Research Center 2013
This study examines online and offline political engagement and pays special attention to the role of social networking sites in people’s political activities.1 There are several major findings.
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Connecting Youth and Strengthening Communities
This report, presented in conjunction with research partner Measure of America, examines the relationship between civic engagement and economic opportunity in the United States, in particular how volunteerism and group membership may build social capital for youth, promote upward mobility and contribute to a range of positive outcomes that benefit both the individual and the community.
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Intergenerational Civic Learning
Civic intergenerationality is an approach to civic learning grounded in coming together across the life span to create a social and political reality that supports people of all ages. It operates under the assumption that all people are assets to our community, are capable of civic learning, and would benefit from it.
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Community Engagement and Business 2019
Americans expect corporations to be ``Mission Driven`` as well as focused on shareholders and customers.
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Civic Engagement: Making the Most of Public Input, The Strong Towns Approach
The Strong Towns approach may appear unorthodox. For instance, our article claiming that most civic engagement is worthless got a lot of attention but made a valuable point about the tension between local government and its constituents.
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