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Essays on Civic Renewal

The New Citizenship Movement: An Overview

Civic Declaration: Call for a New Citizenship
by the American Civic Forum, December 1994

Can the White House Help Catalyze Civic Renewal?
by Carmen Sirianni, Harry Boyte, Benjamin Barber and Jerome Delli Priscoli, for the Reinventing Citizenship Project, in collaboration with the Domestic Policy Council and the Ford Foundation, June 1994

National Renewal
by John W. Gardner, Alliance for National Renewal, 1994

Building a Framework for Democratic Renewal
A working paper on governance by Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer, et. al., AmericaSpeaks, 1997

Testimony Transcripts from the National Commission on Civic Renewal, 1997.
The First Plenary Session includes testimony and discussion of America's contemporary civil and civic condition. The Second Plenary Session includes testimony and discussion on models of successful civic initiatives.

Civic Innovation and American Democracy
by Carmen Sirianni and Lewis Friedland, from Change Magazine, January/February, 1997

Legislating Civil Society
a Walt Whitman Center project series.

Relationship and Power
an interview with Ernesto Cortes, Jr.
by Noelle McAfee for the Kettering Review, Summer 1993