Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Roundup | October 2015

Our Civic Learning & Democratic Engagement Roundup is a new, semi-regular feature on the ADP National Blog. It will feature short summaries of news, research, events and opportunities as well as other work by our partners and other national and international leaders in the civic engagement movement. Please email adp@aascu.org if you have information you’d like featured in a future Roundup.

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• Save the date for the 2016 Frontiers of Democracy conference: June 23-25, 2016 at Tufts University’s Boston campus
• Matt Leighninger joins Public Agenda as VP for engagement and director of the Yankelovich Center for Public Judgment
• Everyday Democracy’s 7 Tips for Facilitating Discussions on Community-Police Relations
• Public Agenda releases a Participatory Budgeting Toolkit, featuring 15 key metrics
• Text, Talk, Act is back and bigger than ever, with national events on November 10th
• Four quadrants of citizen engagement: accessibility, collaboration, transparency, empowerment
• Sandy Heierbacher recounts a year of transition for the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
• Low community turnout and 10 things you can do about it from @EvDem
• Youth voter turnout down in 2014; young people more likely to vote for candidates who are more “in touch” with them – http://ow.ly/QkcQQ
• Campus Compact Accelerating Change: Engagement for Impact Conference March 21-23, 2016, Boston, MA