Make It Your Own Awards —
How many people have we heard from who want to blast their political message across a wide swath of Front Porch Forum? Too many to count.
It makes sense. FPF has a huge local audience and Town Meeting Day is March 2… less than a week away. Candidates, political parties, advocacy groups… they all are working [...]
What an honor! Front Porch Forum is headed to Washington, DC on Sept. 9 to participate in an event called Engaging Citizen 2.0: From Obama to the “MyFaceTube” Revolution, How is Social Media Reshaping Civic Engagement? We’ll be in the Library of Congress with several luminaries of the “using social media for civic engagement” crowd, [...]
The Burlington Free Press picked up the Vermont angle on the study recently released about volunteerism…
Vermont and the Burlington area rank high in a new national study of volunteering rates, according to the Corporation for National and Community Service.
The state ranks ninth in the percentage of the population that participates in volunteer efforts, according to [...]
Kevin Harris blogs today that Jon Fitzmaurice of Self-help-housing.org wrote on the Guardian’s Joe Public:
Self-help housing enables people to be active citizens, and it fights the culture of “someone should do something about that”. It was once more common, but over the last two decades community development and regeneration has fallen into the hands of professionals [...]
Pete Peterson wrote a solid piece about Front Porch Forum for Personal Democracy Forum… published today. Please check it out and leave a comment there. Thanks Pete and Micah!
Clips from Funding and Fostering Local Democracy by Matt Leighninger. First, on language… how many ways can you say “civic engagement?”
Civic synonyms
In common usage, “deliberation and democratic governance”
= active citizenship
= deliberative democracy
= citizen involvement
= citizen-centered work
= public engagement
= citizen participation
= public dialogue
= collaborative governance
= public deliberation
Different people define these terms in different ways – and [...]
From Pete Peterson of Common Sense California…
The DDC (Deliberative Democracy Consortium) has worked with PACE (Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement) to develop “Funding and Fostering Local Democracy,” a guide designed to help the philanthropic community grapple with the question of how to support innovative and effective forms of democratic governance. The guide provides a detailed [...]
See America’s Heart & Soul at Palace 9 in South Burlington, VT, thru April 27. If enough Vermonters watch this documentary portrait of ordinary people doing extraordinary things (children free), then it will be released nationally! This movie shares much in common with Front Porch Forum… people pulling together to accomplish so much important work.
A community newspaper in Vermont recently raised concerns about Front Porch Forum to an entity that is supportive of our work. Here are some of the points made by the newspaper publisher…
… internet activities like the Front Porch Forum are direct competitors to community newspapers…
… subsidizing these forums and spreading their access is hastening the [...]
Thanks to the generousity of the Orton Family Foundation, Front Porch Forum is now available in Starksboro, VT!
Any and all Starksboro residents are encouraged to sign up for this free community-building service immediately. I see that we have two dozens subscribers there already… I guess word got out before the “official” launch.
Finally, thanks to the [...]