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Forum Foundation Announces Micro-Grant Awardees
Updated: January 30, 2017 The Forum Foundation, in cooperation with the National Dialogue Network, has completed its review of four applications and has awarded a total of $20,000 to the following organizations who agree to collaborate and incorporate the versatile...
Poverty and Wealth in America – final report published by the National Dialogue Network
The culminating results and insights from the National Dialogue Network (NDN) about its 2013 inaugural national conversation on Poverty and Wealth in America were presented during the NCDD conference in Reston, VA, October 17-19, 2014. A PDF copy of that report is...
Poverty and Crime
NEW COMMENTS RECEIVED: Is there a connection? (originally published Oct 12, 2013) Poverty and crime have a very "intimate" relationship that has been described by experts from all fields, from sociologists to economists. The UN and the World Bank both rank crime high...
The Great Net Neutrality Debate (Oct 11th, 2014 in NYC)
Visit http://www.meetup.com/NYC-Politics/events/208198102/ to Join and RSVP. Background: All of us rely on the internet for various aspects of our lives. However, the internet, as we know it, may soon be changing. Although not many people are well-versed in this...
Is Healthcare a Right or a Privilege? (August 30 in New York City)
Join the 3pm conversation at Bryant Park in NYC on August 30, 2014 At the heart of the health care debate in America lies the perennially-thorny issue regarding the proper role of the government. In its landmark case, Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Business V. Sebelius, the...
Constitutional Amendment on Campaign Finance Reform?
Check out http://ndn.codigital.com to learn about a new project from the National Dialogue Network! The National Dialogue Network recently used a form of "crowdsourcing" from Codigital.com to solicit ideas from as many people as possible about whether or not a...
Peace Education Center in Lansing, Michigan, holds community dialogues on Poverty and Wealth in April
An exciting message from Terry Link in Lansing, Michigan, describes upcoming community events at Michigan State University (on April 4) and Lansing Community College (on April 9) that are organized by the Peace Education Center and co-sponsored by big name community...
Zilino demonstration dialogue on Poverty and Wealth in America
Zilino begins demonstration dialogue on Poverty and Wealth in America. Zilino is a new web-based solution for hosting deliberative online forums that enables practitioners to design and manage well structured, well facilitated group conversations. Please join us for...
Continuing the conversation on Poverty and Wealth
Maurice Ward at the Department of Social and Health Services in Washington State, has provided a detailed response to a comment about his previous post on "Poverty and Crime." One quote from Maurice: In my personal life I can tell you that almost every single...
Wealth and Poverty in America: A Collective Narrative
This collective narrative presents ideas that were brought to or emerged in the conversation on Poverty and Wealth in America hosted by Fedor Ovchinnikov, Dana Pearlman, Antoine Moore, Kathleen Paylor, and Steve Snider at the Kaiser Center Garden Room in...
You’ve got (future) mail! A message from 2188 to 2013
Dear People of 2013: We got your letter! No need for forgiveness or apologies, we understand how difficult it can be to only see part of a trend. Wish we could answer each question, but we are limited to 2 pages. When we think we have touched on a question we put its...
The 2013 NDN public analysis phase begins
Submitted by John Spady: The 2013 National Dialogue Network (NDN) process has now entered "Cycle 4" of a five cycle process where our volunteer working group releases a preliminary graphic report of all responses received as of November 23, 2013 along with the...
Race, Poverty, & Wealth — Insights From a Virtual Conversation
Submitted by Ben Roberts: Throughout the months of September and October, 2013, I hosted a national conversation "experiment" on the subject of Poverty and Wealth in America. The overall purpose of the conversation (in cooperation with the new National Dialogue...
NDN conversation in Olympia, WA
John Spady joined the conversation on Wealth and Poverty in downtown Olympia this Saturday, October 26. Hosted by Faith Trimble, CEO of The Athena Group and co-facilitated by Galen Radtke, creator of the game of conversation, Wamerjam. The small group of 11 spent 2...
Local NDN Discussion (WI)
Submitted by Dennis Boyer: We held our poverty and wealth discussion last night (Oct 23, 2013). Eight participants comprised of four couples in rural area. About half had previously participated in test discussion of draft discussion guide entitled "Fairness" (work in...
Demographics of 2013 NDN Opinionnaire® Survey
This is an experimental report showing just the current demographic tallies of the 2013 Opinionnaire® Survey's completed so far. Values are expected to be automatically updated each day. Your comments are invited at the bottom of this post or can be left on the NDN...
Questions to Future Sons and Daughters
Submitted for NDN contributor Dyck Dewid: Preface to my questions: I must apologize for hurting you. I am from a time when a body of fathers, mothers, and single adults are (collectively) just beginning to use our miraculous intellects to examine our discontent,...
Infrastructure for Sustaining the National Conversation
There is a great deal of innovation around giving Americans a greater voice in their government, but we still have a long way to go. That's why I'm excited to see the National Dialogue Network (NDN) breaking new ground and the Conversation Collaborative’s online...
Announcement Sept 20, 2013
Recipient of the 2012 Catalyst Award for Civic Infrastructure, National Dialogue Network (NDN) volunteer John Spady announces that the NDN achieved a major milestone on September 18 when it released its public Conversation Kit on the topic of Poverty & Wealth in...
Wealth, Capital Flight, and the Rise of the Information Society: Beyond Borders
"[B]y the year 2012, projected outlays for entitlements and interest on the national debt will consume all tax revenues collected by the federal government... There will not be one cent left over for education, children's programs, highways, national defense, or any...
Bridge Building and Other Civic Infrastructures
A different approach to national dialogue- The title of this post is the same title of a presentation I'll be making on September 23, 2013, at the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) conference in Salt Lake City. Will you be there? Tim Bonnemann...
Where’s the Opportunity?
Where is it? Access to opportunity is seen by many as the solution to the increasing gap in annual income and compensations. A graphic, from page 25 of a presentation by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, shows the growing pace of productivity (which...
Elephants in the room
What other issues intersect with those of Poverty & Wealth? The use of prison labor in the U.S.? High rates of part-time employment? Increasing the use of unpaid internships? Short-term and long-term impacts of delaying a generation from entry into the workforce?...
Communications to the 7th Generation
Introduction: Seven generations is about 175-200 years. This is seven cycles of one generation's children growing up and having children of their own. What they have to work with—or our legacy and their inheritance—is directly connected to who we are and the choices...