Welcome to the NCDD Resource Center!
If you’re looking for resources on dialogue, deliberation and public engagement, boy have you come to the right place! Here are some of the things you can find in NCDD’s Resource Center…
Our Beginner’s Guide
New to dialogue & deliberation (D&D), new to the NCDD site, or new to the breadth of D&D approaches out there? Check out the Beginner’s Guide and start familiarizing yourself with some great resources for newbies, including…
- NCDD’s Resource Guide on Public Engagement
- Our Engagement Streams Framework
- Quick Reference Glossary – over 100 terms defined to help you make sense of it all
- What is Dialogue? and What is Deliberation? pages
Latest Resources Added
We keep adding new resources every couple of days, and here are the very latest (see more)…
- The Civil Debate Wall
The Civil Debate Wall—popularly known as ‘The Wall’—is a unique, innovative social media tool created by Local Projects for The Bob Graham Center for Public Service at the… - Democratizing Deliberation: A Political Theory Anthology
The Kettering Foundation’s soon-to-be-released book, Democratizing Deliberation: A Political Theory Anthology, brings together recent and cutting-edge political theory… - You’re Not as Crazy as I Thought, But You’re Still Wrong
Jacob Z. Hess is a Mormon, a community psychologist, and a devoted conservative, while Phil Neisser is an atheist, a leftist, and a college professor. Yet in 2009, after meeting… - Community Forum Identifies Budget Priorities in the City of Bell
On January 21, 2012 the City of Bell convened a historic bi-lingual Community Forum that brought more than forty residents together to deliberate and to offer guidance to local…
Popular Categories and Tags
For over 10 years now, NCDD’s leaders have been collecting the best resources we can find on dialogue and deliberation — and developing some of our own. The categories and tags help you find the resources you need to practice, teach and research this work, like…
- D&D Methods, meaty descriptions of dozens of the most well-known dialogue and deliberation approaches, many written and submitted to NCDD by the creator of the method
- Participatory Practices, details on over 150 tools and methods used for public participation
- Big Picture Tools, resources that help you understand the broader D&D field
- Case Studies & Stories, over 85 success stories and case studies
- Great for Public Managers, which features resources created specifically for public decision-makers
- Assessment Tools, where we’ve collected dozens of tools to help you measure your success
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The online Resource Center of the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD), at www.ncdd.org/rc, is your gateway to over 2,500 resources on group process… dialogue guides, D&D methods, videos, case studies, evaluation tools, articles, books, programs and more. Includes NCDD’s must-see beginner’s guide, D&D glossary and Resource Guide on Public Engagement.
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These resource lists combine tags and categories to display resources our members and site visitors look for regularly. You can also use the sidebar feature that says “I’m looking for…” to search within 1 category and 1 tag.
