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		<title>Constitutional Amendment for Campaign Finance Reform?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are happy to share the announcement below from NCDD organizational&#160;member and NCDD Catalyst Award winner John Spady of the National Dialogue Network. John&#8217;s announcement&#160;came via&#160;our great&#160;Submit-to-Blog Form.&#160;Do you have news you want to share with the NCDD network? Just&#160;click here&#160;to submit your news post for the NCDD Blog! Until June 14, 2014, the National Dialogue Network (NDN) is crowdsourcing ideas from as many people as possible about whether or not a constitutional amendment is necessary to either limit or protect current practices of election [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/15203?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=constitutional-amendment-for-campaign-finance-reform">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Peace Education Center in MI holds community dialogues on Poverty and Wealth in April</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to highlight the post below about two great events this week and next week in Michigan, which came from&#160;NCDD Sustaining Member and 2012 NCDD Catalyst Award winner John Spady of the&#160;National Dialogue Network.&#160;Do you have news you want to share with the NCDD network? Just&#160;click here&#160;to submit your news post for the NCDD Blog! From John: Here is an exciting message from Terry Link in Lansing, Michigan, to the National Dialogue Network (NDN) which describes upcoming community events at Michigan State University [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/14409?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=peace-education-center-in-lansing-michigan-holds-community-dialogues-on-poverty-and-wealth-in-april">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The National Dialogue Network Begins Its Public Analysis Phase</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 21:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to highlight the post below, which came from&#160;NCDD Sustaining Member and 2012 NCDD Catalyst Award winner John Spady of the National Dialogue Network.&#160;Do you have news you want to share with the NCDD network? Just&#160;click here&#160;to submit your news post for the NCDD Blog! Hello to all our NCDD friends, The National Dialogue Network (NDN) &#8212; recipient of the 2012 NCDD Catalyst Award in &#8220;Civic Infrastructure&#8221; &#8212; has entered &#8220;Cycle 4&#8243; of its original 5-cycle process to design and demonstrate a system [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/13541">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Moving the “Delibertainment” Conversation Forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were pleased as punch to see the&#160;Real Dialogues Project,&#160;one of the winners of the 2012 NCDD Catalyst Awards, reach an important milestone last week &#8211; they hosted their very first Google hangout discussion! We encourage you to check out their post and the short video about the conversation here. We also wanted to share a related write up on an interesting article from the Journal for Public Deliberation on public engagement in news media. We are inspired to see growing amounts of discourse on [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/13320">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Participate in “Real Dialogues” Hangout Today!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2013 04:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re excited to invite you to participate in the most exciting phase yet of the Real Dialogues project, their very first Google+ Hangout discussion! You may remember that the Real Dialogues D&#38;D reality show was one of the winners of NCDD&#8217;s Catalyst Awards, and we are proud to see the project entering its production phase! Now you can participate in the project yourself by joining the conversation. This first dialogue starts Tuesday, October 29th, at 5pm Central&#160;so make sure to email realdialogues@gmail.com&#160;immediately to sign up! [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/13128">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Invitation to 3rd round of dialogue on Race, Poverty &amp; Wealth in America</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an invitation from Ben Roberts of&#160;The Conversation Collaborative to participate in the third (and final) round of the innovative online conversation he&#8217;s hosting as part of the National Dialogue Network initiative&#8230; From now through October 31st, please join us on hackpad, on the phone and perhaps in person as well, as we continue to explore the topic of race as it relates to the National Dialogue Network&#8217;s topic of Poverty and Wealth in America. The stories we tell ourselves concerning race, poverty and wealth [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/13124">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Participate in the National Dialogue Network’s inaugural topic!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandy Heierbacher]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Dialogue Network &#8212; winners of the 2012 NCDD Catalyst Award&#160;in the civic infrastructure category &#8212; launched a few weeks ago with their inaugural topic,&#160;&#8221;Poverty &#38; Wealth in America.&#8221; Led by John Spady, the National Dialogue Network (NDN) seeks to coordinate local conversations into mindful national dialogue. NCDD encourages all of you to get involved so we can learn as much as possible from this project! &#160;Here are two things you can do right now: Download the &#8220;conversation kit&#8221; to host/facilitate your own gathering [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/12998">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty &amp; Wealth in America: the National Dialogue Network begins coordinated conversations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post was submitted by&#160;John Spady&#160;of the&#160;National Dialogue Network&#160;via our&#160;Submit-to-Blog Form. Do you have field news you want to share with the rest of us? Just&#160;click here&#160;to submit your news post for the NCDD Blog! NCDD member John Spady, who received our&#160;2012 Catalyst Award for Civic Infrastructure,&#160;has announced that the National Dialogue Network&#160;achieved a major milestone on September 18 when it released its public Conversation Kit&#160;on the topic of Poverty &#38; Wealth in America&#160;for voluntary and coordinated national conversations. To remember why NDN decided on [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/12718">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Catalyst Awards Update at IAP2 Conference Next Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 17:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Fluke]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attendees of the IAP2 national conference being held in Salt Lake City, UT next week will have the opportunity to learn more about the progress of both NCDD 2012 Catalyst Award projects. &#160;Project representatives, John Spady (National Dialogue Network) and Tim Bonnemann&#160;(Real Dialogues), will be hosting the session &#8220;Bridge Building and Other Civic Infrastructures &#8212; Status of NCDD Catalyst Award Efforts&#8221;&#160;on Monday from 1:30pm to 3:00pm. Below is the session summary. Presenters will describe their independent and collaborative efforts since receiving grants from the National ... <a href="http://ncdd.org/12720">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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