Want to vote by mail? Make sure your ballot is counted. State-by-state instructions, deadlines, eligibility, absentee ballot rules, how to request a ballot, where to buy a stamp, where to find a notary, and how to submit your ballot.

Later this month, I will travel to Denver, Colorado, for an experience I never imagined when I was a young boy growing up in Clarksburg. I have been asked to serve as a juror for the prestigious All-America City Award program, sponsored by the National Civic League. It is an honor that has caused me [...]

New Haven, CT, has a long history of addressing the overall needs and assets of young people to help kids succeed. A five-time All-America City, the city boasts strong out-of-school programs and a history of focusing on the wellbeing of young people from low-income populations that stretches back ov...

How do we bring Americans together? Nonprofit and philanthropy leaders on the front lines of division offer answers from the field.

Countering misinformation in the public sphere requires more than just a savvy social media team at City Hall. The best approach begins by reconceptualizing misinformation not as a media strategy puzzle but as a civic infrastructure problem.

Participatory budgeting (PB) has moved from a niche democracy innovation to a mainstream governance tool, now used in thousands of cities worldwide. A recent international study by Merrick Langdon, Harlow Pickens, Grace Nakato & Bhavana Nayak examining participatory budgeting initiatives between 2020 and 2024 provides one of the most comprehensive empirical assessments to date of how citizen involvement...