The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) wants your ideas to develop a Federal framework, guidelines, and leading practices for public participation and community engagement (PPCE) activities to help Federal agencies more broadly and meaningfully engage with you and your communities. People are encouraged to share their experiences and provide feedback through public comments, online forms, or attending virtual listening sessions by May 17th. Read the NCDD blog post about the opportunity here. This is the first real opportunity in a while for practitioners like us to help inform Federal practices for engagement! Some may remember our efforts as a network during the Obama Administration, which led to the development of the Core Principles for Public Engagement, and we sent a joint response on the Open Government Action Plan with the Deliberative Democracy Consortium back in 2012 (see the archive post about this here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200918061645/www.ncdd.org/6591). On May 3rd, NCDD staff will convene a listening session to hear from our network and gather input for NCDD’s response. This meeting will provide opportunities to reflect on the questions prompted by the Federal government’s Request for Information. The listening session will be held at 2pm Eastern, 11am Pacific. Register here to join the NCDD Listening Session! Some of the questions we will be exploring include…
If you are unable to join us during the NCDD listening session, you are welcome to share your thoughts via a survey by May 10th. Information gathered from the NCDD listening session and survey, will be compiled and submitted to OMB. Take the survey: LINKED HERE The White House OMB, Office of Science and Technology Policy, and U.S. GSA Open Government Secretariat are hosting a listening session as well. On May 2nd, from 1:30-3:00 PM Eastern, this session offers a chance to learn about the OMB's PPCE framework and share your insights. Register for the government listening session at: LINKED HERE
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At the beginning of 2024, NCDD began to roll out our new media collaborative working group and higher education exchange. In April, we are launching two new working groups - Fundraising and Philanthropy & Emerging Leaders (people 35 and under)! We are looking to schedule the calls for those groups and convene this month. If you are interested in joining either of the new working groups, please fill out the scheduling polls linked below. If you are interested in joining the two other groups - Media Collaborative and or Higher Education - find the call information below and join us on the next call! Fundraising and Philanthropy: Join this working group to explore opportunities for fundraising for NCDD and beyond.
Emerging Leaders: This group is for people 35 years and under to explore ways that the NCDD network can support and lift-up our new and emerging practitioners.
Media Collaborative: Join this working group to collaborate on strengthening the connection between D&D and journalism.
Higher Education Exchange:
Join April 10th NCDD-NCL Webinar: Building Trust in Elections through Living Room Conversations3/29/2024 April Webinar: Building Trust in Elections through Living Room Conversations Join us to be part of a nationwide movement to increase trust in each other and our elections. April 10th at 4 pm ET, 3 pm CT, 2 pm MT, 1 pm PT At a time when the process and outcomes of elections are increasingly questioned, join us to learn how to build trust in the electoral process within your communities. This webinar, "Building Trust in Elections through Living Room Conversations," will equip you with practical tools and strategies to foster trust in each other and explore how we can make elections more fair and inclusive. We are thrilled to co-host this conversation with NCDD member organizations - National Civic League and Living Room Conversations - join us!
Participants will learn why building trust in elections and amongst each other is essential for our democracy's health and receive practical tools to contribute to the solution. Experts from Living Room Conversations will introduce their new Trust in Elections Conversation Guide, designed to address polarization and enhance community ties. After the one-hour webinar, attendees can optionally join a 30-minute mini Living Room Conversation to practice using this valuable new resource. Our additional time together will give attendees space to explore their experience participating in the electoral process. This event supports the 2024 National Week of Conversation, taking place from April 15th to 21st, with the goal to provide additional tools and support for community discussions. Learn more about NWOC 2024 here! Friendly reminder! Join us tomorrow, February 14th, for our upcoming webinar, Honing Facilitative Leadership Competencies, happening from 3:00-4:30 pm Eastern/Noon-1:30pm Pacific. This event is the first in our special series of webinars focused on skill building and topics of interest. Come learn important new skills and how you support this capacity building in communities and beyond. Register ASAP to join us and learn more in the post below. Have you heard the news?! NCDD is thrilled to announce the launch of our NCDD Working Groups and Exchanges - and you're invited to join!
2024 is already looking to be an important year and there is a lot of energy for dialogue, deliberation, and engagement work. NCDD is uniquely positioned to bring together our collective wisdom, experiences, and passion for change to reflect and collaborate together. Coming out of the 2023 conference, NCDD is excited to be harnessing the collective energy and capacity of this coalition through the formation of working groups that align with key priority areas for the organization, as well as exchanges that will allow the membership to deepen connections. These groups are intended to provide our members with focused opportunities to connect, collaborate, build capacity, and invest in our shared coalition. Current NCDD Working Groups A number of potential focus areas were suggested at the 2023 conference. The NCDD staff and board have determined that these following groups are best aligned with current organization priorities and can also play a key role in building and sustaining NCDD as an inclusive coalition and a thriving organization.
Joining a Working Group Working groups open to all, please fill out this form. While you are not required to be an NCDD member, your support helps make these groups possible - become one today! Current NCDD Exchanges
Joining the Exchange Express your interest in this exchange by filling out this brief form. The form asks for ways you would like to communicate around the exchange, as well as opportunities to present and lead the group. Want to Start a New Exchange? NCDD is excited to support additional exchanges focused on bringing our network together around specific sectors, areas of interest, etc. If you would like to discuss starting a new exchange, reach out to NCDD’s Executive Director, Courtney Breese, at courtney@ncdd.org. Additional Questions? Please contact NCDD’s Communications Coordinator, Keiva Hummel, at keiva@ncdd.org. NCDD is excited to start a special series of webinars focused on skill building and topics of interest. Our first in this series will be held Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 3:00-4:30 pm Eastern/Noon-1:30pm Pacific. Register today to join us! The webinar is titled, Honing Facilitative Leadership Competencies and will be led by Lori Britt, PhD, Professor and Director, James Madison University Institute for Constructive Advocacy and Dialogue, and Lisa-Marie Napoli, Director and Senior Lecturer, PACE (Political and Civic Engagement) Indiana University Bloomington. This is built upon their NCDD 2023 Conference session, and plans to help you build your skills in this area! Session Description: We see Facilitative Leadership as a mindset, habits, and skills that focus on not only bringing people together to engage collaboratively and productively across differences and around challenging topics, but importantly, an intention to cultivate this capacity in others. This webinar will overview the concept of Facilitative Leadership and engage participants in some activities focused on honing this capacity and evoking it in those we work with in our communities and on our campuses. This webinar is being held as a fundraiser for NCDD, and registration fees are on a sliding scale of $15-$50 (self-selected). All registration fees are tax deductible and support NCDD staff and programming. If you have any concerns about the fees, please contact courtney@ncdd.org. About our Presenters:
Lori Britt is a professor of communication and co-director of the Institute for Constructive Advocacy and Dialogue at James Madison University which seeks to advance the theory and practice of dialogue deliberation and collaborative public problem-solving. She is currently the board chair of NCDD. Lisa-Marie Napoli Ph.D. is director of the Political and Civic Engagement (PACE) program at Indiana University Bloomington. Most of her work focuses on conflict management deliberative democracy and civic action. In all her work there is a goal to strive toward inclusive collaboration for equitable positive outcomes and healing. Last month NCDD shared a serious call for support for Giving Tuesday. We're thrilled to share that our amazing network stepped up, and we are under $1,000 away from reaching our goal of $10,000! Please read on for how to help us reach our goal before the end of the year. Twenty-Four members of our community have contributed a total of $9,329 in just three weeks, including memberships (yearly and monthly) and donations. Our sincerest thanks to you all! It makes us misty-eyed to know how much you care about NCDD and are ready to answer the call when we need you. Your support is helping NCDD recover from a financially tough 2023. Your contributions this holiday season are supporting our staff directly - making sure we can continue to get paid in December and January, while we work to raise additional funds and wait for our ongoing contracts to be completed. These funds help us to continue to see NCDD bring people together across divides to discuss, decide, and take action together effectively on today’s toughest issues. If you have not made a gift to NCDD yet this season, please help us reach our goal through one of these options:
A huge THANK YOU again to all who have helped us stay the course in 2023. We can't wait to get to work with you all in 2024, in what is sure to be a pivotal year for NCDD and this field! The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) needs your support.
Despite an amazing return to our national conference this fall, our registration numbers did not meet our goals, and we are faced with severely diminished financial resources as a result. The last several years have been hard for us all (COVID, inflation, etc.) and so we made a conscious choice to be thoughtful about how hard we pushed for membership dues and renewals. Now is the time for us to be clear: we need your support now if you want to continue to see NCDD bring people together across divides to discuss, decide, and take action together effectively on today’s toughest issues. At the conference, we had a frank conversation with a group of members about this very situation. With their generosity, we were able to raise over $5,000 that very same day! To say we were touched is an understatement. One thing we heard from our members in that conversation is that we need to be honest and tell you where we’re at, and what we need. The truth is, it’s a hard job keeping this coalition going - it always has been. Our staff all work part-time, and have other work they have to do on top of their roles at NCDD. We operate on an annual budget of only about $100,000 each year (conference revenue and expenses excluded), which is built on a combination of member dues, donation, and fee-for-service work our staff performs to help cover expenses. In 2023, we put all our eggs in the conference basket - so to speak - and without higher attendance numbers, we find ourselves just barely getting by in these final weeks of 2023. While we await other funding sources coming in early 2024, we need to raise at least $10,000 to help us pay our incredible staff for December and January. If you attended the conference and that is all you can do this year - thank you! We know it is a serious financial commitment to join us in person. We are asking for you, our amazing network, to help out in whatever way you are able:
Every contribution counts. We have big plans for the NCDD network in 2024 and, with your support, we can chart a course forward as a coalition! We are still glowing from NCDD2023 - the National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation - held in Atlanta from Friday October 13th to Sunday October 15th, with preconference events that ran all day on Thursday! The conference convened hundreds of practitioners across a wide spectrum of work connected to dialogue, deliberation, civic engagement, and more. It was an incredible time to come together, see old friends and make new ones, learn from each other, and find ways we can collaborate moving forward. An immense THANK YOU to our conference sponsors for your generous support - you truly help drive this work and this field forward, and we couldn't do this without you! Our NCDD2023 conference sponsors:
Huge THANK YOU to our indispensable conference planning team who worked hard to make NCDD2023 such a great success! NCDD conferences are collaborative from the beginning, which is why it was vital to have such a creative and supportive planning team. These phenomenal individuals offered their precious hours and valuable skills to make this conference a sensational reality - helping design the event, getting the word out, and volunteering on the ground to make sure things went smoothly. Putting on an event like NCDD2023 is no easy lift, yet because of the incredible team we worked with, they made it possible and a joy! While the conference planning team worked hard to design a great event... it's thanks to our fantastic attendees who really brought NCDD2023 to life! It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces and also meet lots of new folks who have been doing this work (many of whom were first-timers to NCDD conferences!). NCDD conferences are always in-person reminders of just how powerful this work is and how truly catalytic we can be when we come together. We want the conferences to be incubators for motivation to do this work and connections to make it happen, both at the conference and beyond!
NCDD2023 featured four pre-conference sessions and several other events on Thursday, and over the following three official conference days we had: 60+ workshops, 3 engaging plenaries, 30+ presenters during the D&D Showcase, an Undergraduate Student Facilitator Summit, a screening of the Abortion Talks, and several organized dialogues and collaborative convenings; in addition to the countless connections made throughout the weekend. Check out the beautiful boards created by our team of graphic faciliators at the conference to get an idea of some of the workshops and plenary conversations - find the folder linked here! We also used the Whova App to supplement the conference experience. The event planning app offered dozens of "open space-like" opportunities to convene community conversations, organize meet-ups, share images and videos, and support further networking connections. Land Acknowledgement - NCDD2023 was held at the Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter in Atlanta, Georgia. It is important to understand the longstanding history that brought us to that land, and to seek to understand our place within that history. Land acknowledgements do not exist in a past tense, or historical context: settler colonialism is a current ongoing process, and we need to build our mindfulness of our present participation. We acknowledge the Muscogee (Creek) and Tsalagi (Cherokee) people who live, work, produce knowledge on, and nurture this land and were violently displaced from their lands. We invite you to join NCDD staff in providing an offering to the following two indigenous organizations on whose land the conference was held:
We want to hear from you! The conference evaluation is up at tinyurl.com/NCDD2023Eval. Please be sure to let us know what you loved, what could have been better, and any advice you have for the next planning team. We appreciate any feedback you can offer and will take it into consideration as we plan our future events. Thank you so much! There is a lot of follow up from the NCDD2023 conference that we will continue to share with you. Stay tuned to the NCDD blog and your email inboxes for more details! Sign up for NCDD updates at www.ncdd.org/listservs.html. The NCDD2023 planning team has been hard at work to create a fantastic conference, and we are thrilled to share that the guidebook is now available! Find the conference guidebook below to check out the schedule, speakers, plenary descriptions, and much more. It’s great to see the conference highlights all in one place! You can download a PDF version of the guidebook below the slideshow. Stay tuned - we are also be using the Whova App for the conference and will announce this very soon! NCDD2023 will be from Friday October 13th to Sunday October 15th, with preconference events all day on Thursday October 12th. This conference will be a fantastic time for practitioners and enthusiasts of dialogue, deliberation, and engagement work to dig in together about how to build capacity for this work and amplify its usage. We hope you will consider joining us if you haven’t registered already so you can both experience this impactful event and networking opportunity. We’re still offering our “100-off” promo code on regular registration and “Student-Deal” to save $60 on student registrations - so make the most of these opportunities as register today at: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/event_step2/MTc4MDYw/204040. We also have one-day deals if you can only join us for a day! Download Here: The NCDD2023 Guidebook
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