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🚨Big News! 🚨 After working on this project for close to a year and a half, where our team convened 25 leaders from across the country, then interviewed 50 other leaders in the democracy field, and reviewed THOUSANDS of organization mission statements, I'm delighted to finally see the Healthy Democracy Ecosystem go live! The ecosystem is broadly defined including multiple categories and dozens of goals from across the political spectrum. We currently have 10 states, with the rest to follow in the next few weeks. It's going to be a constantly evolving innovative, interactive tool that maps the organizations and networks supporting and advancing democratic practices across the U.S. Explore the map and get a positive glimpse of how democracy is actually alive and well despite national narratives of decline. We hope this tool will only grow through word of mouth and inspire groups to connect with each other. Happy to talk data with anyone interested. #HealthyDemocracy #CivicEngagement #DemocracyInnovation" Link: https://lnkd.in/gNpyET-v

The Fulcrum Democracy Forum Meets Caleb Christen, Co-Founder of Inter-Movement Impact Project - https://lnkd.in/gShrYsGH Follow #citybiz on LinkedIn - https://lnkd.in/eBgXKiz8 Caleb Christen, Inter-Movement Impact Project, Walt Roberts, Mark Gerzon, Riley Krull, Mesa Sebree, Kristina Becvar, David Nevins, Brian Clancy, Morris Effron, Hugo Balta, Joe Kennedy, Shia Levitt #citybiz #citybizinterviews #ceointerviews #MovementBuilding #Networking #GenerativeChange #GenerativeForums #CrossPollinating #ConnectingConnectors #InterMovementBridging #Democracy #DemocracyHubs #CivicRenewal #GenerateDemocracy #TranspartisanSolutions

Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess talked with Walt Roberts and Caleb Christen on July 24, 2024. Walt and Caleb founded and co-direct the Inter-Movement Impact Project (IMIP) / (https://lnkd.in/gm4cARmV), an example of what we have been calling "massively parallel problem solving" and "massively parallel democracy building" as it currently exists "in the real world." ... ...What is particularly exciting to Guy and me about this effort is the ability it has to generate hope and to show people that there is an alternative to the extremely toxic and dangerous politics that is dominating the United States right now. As Guy and I said in our post on Massively Parallel Partisanship, right now the forces sowing hatred, fear, and polarization are dominant. And many people have given up hope, figuring that democracy in America is doomed. But if you look at the work that is being reported monthly on the IMIP calls, it is amazing. Effective bridging efforts, effective deliberative democracy efforts, effective structural change efforts are happening all over this country. But they aren't getting covered by the media, which is much more interested in conflict and blood. (Remember the line "if it bleeds it leads?") The same is true, even more so, for social media, where people try to build support for their side and make themselves feel better, or feel important by posting the most outrageous stories about the other side, and the best about one's own. IMIP is trying to coordinate the many people and organizations who are trying to block such divisive behavior (the block component), while helping both sides bridge to the other, and build a new, more resilient, and healthier democracy in which everyone would want to live. In Walt's words: Caleb and I have focused most of our attention, like 90% of it, on the ecosystem of many movements and the practitioners and the active citizens and volunteers and players and communicators and influencers who are working on generating democracy, fixing what's broken about our political stuff, etc. So there's a community to build out of the folks that are already in the ecosystem and spending a good part of their time working on those things. And then there's the rest of the world. There's everybody else who really doesn't even know that these literally more than 10,000 organizations that are all somewhat nonpartisan, cross-partisan, transpartisan are working on all these different sort of dimensions of fixing what's broken and strengthening what's good. And so how to get that word out? ...We're working on that...." Mike Kenig, Duncan Autrey, Emma Addams, Keiva Hummel, Sterling Speirn, Seth Adam Cohen, Andy Moore, Kristina Becvar, Karissa Raskin, Emma Addams, Bobby Milstein, Vinay Orekondy, Warren Stickney, Peggy O'Neal, Danielle Reiff, Kristin J. Hansen, Joan Blades, Harry Boyte, Vee Cangiano, David Eisner, Julia Roig, Scot Nakagawa, Tabatha Pilgrim Thompson, Mesa Sebree, Jacob Bornstein, June Klees

Join the ABA Task Force for American Democracy and Troutman Pepper on July 25 for the first of a 3-part CLE series that will explore a lawyer's unique role in supporting fundamental elements of American democracy. The first session will educate lawyers on the concept of the rule of law, how it serves as the foundation of our democracy and how lawyers have a unique opportunity and obligation to support and defend it. Register today: https://ambar.org/cgwzry18