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The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation is a network of thousands of innovators who bring people together across divides to tackle today’s toughest challenges. NCDD serves as a gathering place, a resource clearinghouse, a news source, and a facilitative leader for the dialogue and deliberation community and beyond. More about who we are and what we do.
Join us for our next NCDD Confab Call on Wednesday, May 15th from 2:00 to 3:30 EST. May’s featured NCDDers are Phil Neisser and Jacob Hess, who will lead a discussion on the current status of liberal-conservative and transpartisan dialogue. Register now!
NCDD Summer Meet-up! On July 18th, in association with the Frontiers of Democracy conference held at Tufts University in Boston, NCDD will host an afternoon meetup for members and friends focused on networking and community building. Learn more here!

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For 10 years, NCDD has been sharing news about events and trainings, cutting-edge programs, funding and job opportunities, and more. The latest: AmericaSpeaks’ Role in Forging a Citywide Policy on Bullying in DC AmericaSpeaks, an organizational member of NCDD, facilitated the District of Columbia Mayor’s Youth Bullying Prevention Task Force over the past year, and the District’s citywide prevention policy was recently released. Your participation needed in an important survey on disrupting deliberative public forums Our colleagues Kirk Emerson, Frank Dukes, Wendy Willis, and Kim Hodge Cowgill (some of whom are NCDD members) are conducting an important survey on these occurrences, and would like all of you who have experienced this challenge to participate. Civic Infrastructure: On the Ground! Here’s a conference call I think some of you will definitely want to participate in. Community Matters (a partnership NCDD is involved in) is hosting a call entitled “Civic Infrastructure: On the Ground!” on May 9th at 4pm Eastern focused on strengthening civic infrastructure in your area.	Access to over 2,700 resources… dialogue guides, D&D methods, videos, case studies, evaluation tools, articles, books, programs and more. Most recently added: Centre for Public Involvement The Centre for Public Involvement was proposed in 2009 as a unique partnership between the City of Edmonton and University of Alberta. It was proposed in response to a demonstrated and recognized need for decision-makers and the public to actively seek, consider and apply the most effective means for public involvement. Reasoning: A Social Picture Thinking about reasoning suffers from a failure of vision. Philosophers, social scientists, and others who discuss and analyze reasoning have a particular activity in view: reasoning to figure things out, solve problems, and reach judgments. Civic Engagement in the Digital Age Social networking sites have grown more important in recent years as a venue for political involvement, learning, and debate. Overall, 39% of all American adults took part in some sort of political activity on a social networking site during the 2012 campaign.	Our 1,700+ members are doing extraordinary work across the globe. Learn how to join them, connect with them, and learn from them. Don’t miss: An overview of ALL the ways you can get involved and connect with NCDDers. NCDD hosts over a dozen listservs and announcement lists, including our popular NCDD Discussion listserv. Thinking about joining NCDD? We’d love to have you! Learn about how and why to join the Coalition. Already a member? Check out our page on getting the most out of your membership in NCDD. Our groups, pages and feeds from various social media outlets. The NCDD Members Network, our interactive members directory (search members here).
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