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		<title>New Video on Bringing Participatory Budgeting in Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2017 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are excited to announce that NCDD member org &#8211; The Participatory Budgeting Project recently released a new video on bringing participatory budgeting in schools. The video is on the recent participatory budgeting pilot in 5 Phoenix high schools, where more than 3,800 students participated in their first PB process. We encourage you to read more about&#160;the new PB in Schools video below or find the original on the Participatory Budgeting Project&#8217;s blog&#160;here. NEW VIDEO &#8211; Participatory Budgeting in Schools We are proud to share [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/23852">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring Possibilities by Challenging Assumptions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2017 13:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We wanted to share this piece from NCDD member, Beth Tener, on the New Directions Collaborative blog about her recent experience at a workshop she ran on The Art of Strategic Questioning and the insights she took away about the power of framing questions. Tener notes how much more powerful questions can become when they are co-developed by a diverse group of people in order to test the assumptions on how a question is framed and consequently open up the creative possibilities. We encourage you [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/23831">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>NCDD Joins Coalition in Launching National Survey on the American Dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2017 13:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roshan Bliss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an&#160;era of political divide and confusion, we can learn a lot about what is happening if we slow down and ask people how their thoughts&#160;and feelings about the issues that seem to divide us most are changing. That is why NCDD is proud to announce that we&#8217;ve joined a national, nonpartisan coalition that is launching the &#8220;What&#8217;s Your American Dream?&#8221; survey. This survey will ask people across the US to express their values and goals around the issues they see as most vital, and [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/23807">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>NCDD Member Shares Faith &amp; Dialogue Insights on NPR</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2017 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a testament to the critical work of NCDD&#8217;s network, we were proud to hear our very own&#160;Parisa Parsa&#160;&#8211; Executive Director of NCDD member org&#160;Essential Partners&#160;and an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister&#160;&#8211; interviewed recently on NPR. Parisa was featured on the show&#160;Friends Talking Faith with The Three Wise Guys, where she shared about the keys to having good dialogue even in tough conversations. We encourage you to read more about her appearance in the EP blog piece below, find the original version here, or listen to [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/23797">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Addressing the Problem of Separation through Dialogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2017 18:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roshan Bliss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In these divided times, we wanted to share an encouraging piece that NCDD member organization&#160;Public Agenda&#160;recently posted on their blog. It summarizes insights gained from focus groups PA convened which demonstrated something our field knows &#8211; when people from different perspectives engage in dialogue, they realize they aren&#8217;t so different or separate after all. We encourage you to read PA&#8217;s piece below or find the original version here. What Discussing Polarizing Topics Like Inequality Exposes After a divisive election season we continue to see stark [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/23788">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Key Lessons on Community-Police Relations from APV2017</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2017 14:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roshan Bliss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, NCDD member orgs the Kettering Foundation and the National Issues Forums Institute hosted the 2017 &#8220;A Public Voice&#8221; forum that convened D&#38;D practitioners with congressionl staff to talk about how to improve community-police relations. For those of you who couldn&#8217;t tune in to the livestream of the event, we wanted to share this insightful write up&#160;of the event&#8217;s highlights from our friends at Everyday Democracy below. We encourage you to read their piece below or find the original here. And if you&#8217;d like [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/23764">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Navigating a Polarized Landscape with Our Nonpartisan Credentials Intact</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/23766</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2017 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roshan Bliss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the post-2016 election landscape where talk of &#8220;threats to democracy&#8221; abounds, many organizations focused on deliberative democracy and public engagement, including NCDD, have had to relearn not only how to balance participating in&#160;public conversation about issues that didn&#8217;t used to seem partisan before, but how to do so while maintaining our nonpartisan stances and not violating our organizational or personal values. It&#8217;s not easy, which is why we appreciated&#160;NCDD member org&#160;Healthy Democracy&#8216;s recent piece that offers solid advice for how to evaluate and maintain [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/23766">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Learn from Iceland’s Deliberative Constitutional Change</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/23748</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2017 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roshan Bliss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We want to encourage our NCDD network,&#160;especially those in California, to consider&#160;registering&#160;to attend an intriguing event this June 3 at UC Berkeley called A Congress on Iceland&#8217;s Democracy. This international gathering aims to explore new approaches to democracy inspired by the deliberative process that Iceland used to create its new constitution through a mock legislative process, and we&#8217;re sure many NCDDers would take a great deal of inspiration from participating. You can learn more about the gathering in the invitation letter below sent to the [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/23748">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons on Non-Hierarchical Decision Making from Our Confab with Loomio</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/23682</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2017 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roshan Bliss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday of last week, NCDD hosted another one of our Confab Call events with over 40 people&#160;from our network. The call featured Rich Bartlett and MJ Kaplan of the Loomio cooperative who talked about their experience with decision making in non-hierarchical organizations.&#160;If you missed this Confab Call, you missed a great event! We had a lively conversation on how non-hierarchical organizations can be structured, how decisions are made (spoiler alert: deliberatively!), and how work flows can be managed in ways that don&#8217;t require anyone [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/23682">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tune into &#8220;A Public Voice&#8221; Safety &amp; Justice Event Tomorrow!</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/23685</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2017 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roshan Bliss]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We want to remind the NCDD network &#8211; especially those of you focused on community-police dialogue &#8211; to tune in live&#160;to the 2017 &#8220;A Public Voice&#8221; event tomorrow, May 9th from 1:30 -3pm Eastern via Facebook Live. &#8220;A Public Voice&#8221; is the annual event that the Kettering Foundation and National Issues Forums Institute &#8211; both NCDD member orgs &#8211; host every year to bring public input on policy straight to Washington DC. This year&#8217;s APV forum will be a&#160;working meeting with Congressional staff&#160;about the results [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/23685">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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