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Civic Engagement - Now from the Comfort of your Living Room
Submitted by saraneppl on Thu, 09/17/2009 - 10:19am
Last year, when our traditional Civic Participation Month became the Community Matters Campaign (CMC), we added a new component - community dialogues - which we've been mentioning in our past few blogs as we shared the faces of this year's topics.
Dialogues take many forms. Some take place during a community organization's regularly scheduled meeting. Some take place in classrooms. Some take place in living rooms, and hosts invite their friends and family to attend. Our board of directors will participate in a dialogue during their October board meeting.
Our facilitators, once trained and ready, spread out across King County - north, south, east, west - and lead the same discussion, to see what we find out. What are the common strains being echoed at many dialogues? What things are different, and how? Each dialogue attendee receives a one page document that includes all of the information we've been giving you - the facts and the faces - along with questions for discussion. (All of the facts and faces, plus some handy charts, are available in one place at our main CMC page - click here and scroll down a bit.)
CityClub wants everyone to be involved. Soon, you'll be able to sign up for a dialogue - if you're not part of a group that's holding one, the Seattle Public Library is hosting three of them, which will be open to the public and available for online registration soon. If getting to a set meeting is difficult for you, we encourage you to participate online. The questions are below, and the comment button is ready for you to click! (Don't be discouraged when your comment doesn't appear right away - we have to click a button on our end, too.) You can also take part in other parts of the dialogue online: pledge your action and fill out a Personal Engagement Plan, and vote on a strategy for change in our People's Choice Awards.
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What would we discover if all of King County had the same conversation?
Where do we agree and disagree and what should we do about it?
The answers may surprise us, but to find out we need you to join the conversation.
Where do we agree and disagree and what should we do about it?
The answers may surprise us, but to find out we need you to join the conversation.
Last year, when our traditional Civic Participation Month became the Community Matters Campaign (CMC), we added a new component - community dialogues - which we've been mentioning in our past few blogs as we shared the faces of this year's topics.
Dialogues take many forms. Some take place during a community organization's regularly scheduled meeting. Some take place in classrooms. Some take place in living rooms, and hosts invite their friends and family to attend. Our board of directors will participate in a dialogue during their October board meeting.
Our facilitators, once trained and ready, spread out across King County - north, south, east, west - and lead the same discussion, to see what we find out. What are the common strains being echoed at many dialogues? What things are different, and how? Each dialogue attendee receives a one page document that includes all of the information we've been giving you - the facts and the faces - along with questions for discussion. (All of the facts and faces, plus some handy charts, are available in one place at our main CMC page - click here and scroll down a bit.)
CityClub wants everyone to be involved. Soon, you'll be able to sign up for a dialogue - if you're not part of a group that's holding one, the Seattle Public Library is hosting three of them, which will be open to the public and available for online registration soon. If getting to a set meeting is difficult for you, we encourage you to participate online. The questions are below, and the comment button is ready for you to click! (Don't be discouraged when your comment doesn't appear right away - we have to click a button on our end, too.) You can also take part in other parts of the dialogue online: pledge your action and fill out a Personal Engagement Plan, and vote on a strategy for change in our People's Choice Awards.
- What change in the community is needed to achieve educational and economic opportunity for everyone in King County?
- What strategies address both these issues together and are there examples of effective efforts, synergies and progress you can tell us about?
- What should be the priorities for the community investment to advance these goals?
- How would you prefer to engage with community leaders and your elected officials on these issues?
- How will you be involved?
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