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		<title>Essential Conversations – Weekly Practice for Leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2021 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Isabella Guzman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Essential Conversations is celebrating one year! Essential Conversations was created by the Center for Purposeful Leadership as a response to the disruption felt worldwide with the events of 2020, in the hopes of engaging and activating leaders. &#160;If you haven&#8217;t checked it out yet, Essential Conversations is a weekly event with the purpose of hosting provocative and evocative conversations,&#160;interactive breakouts, and community conversations &#160;to equip you with strategies, inspiration and ideas to create change and innovation needed for &#160;coherence, resilience and positive impact.&#160; Anyone looking [&#8230;] <a href="https://ncdd.org/32126">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Join the Premiere of The Reunited States Film on Feb 11th!</title>
		<link>https://ncdd.org/32012</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Isabella Guzman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happening this Thursday, February 11th is the launch event for the film, The Reunited States. This film is inspired by its&#8217; namesake book, The Reunited States, authored by Mark Gerzon, president of Mediators Foundation, an NCDD member org. The Reunited States is a powerful and urgent documentary that follows the unsung heroes on the difficult journey of bridging our political and racial divides. The film, like the book, urges us to consider that everyone has a role to play in reuniting the country. To attend [&#8230;] <a href="https://ncdd.org/32012">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Student Support with Dialogue in Time of National Crisis</title>
		<link>https://ncdd.org/31955</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2021 12:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Isabella Guzman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students spend most of their days in school. Naturally, when national events occur, this extends the teachers regular duties to the role of &#160;&#8220;first responders&#8221;. This publication from Essential Partners&#160;was adapted for the classroom from their Reflective Structured Dialogue, and is offered as a tool for teachers to create a space of self- reflection, deep listening and open sharing in the classroom. &#160;The prompts and guidelines to consider, proactively invite the students to process crisis in a healthy way. Read about the structure and prompts [&#8230;] <a href="https://ncdd.org/31955">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>JAMS and NACFM Offer Grants to Community Mediators!</title>
		<link>https://ncdd.org/31938</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Isabella Guzman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The JAMS Foundation and NCDD&#8217;s partner the National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM) are accepting submissions for their 2021-2023 Community Mediation Mini- Grant Program. This opportunity is extended to those interested in offering a new or enhanced process to how their organization currently serves their communities, with a focus on healing an ongoing or long standing community divide towards a path of re-connection. The Program is designed to encourage creativity and variation based on research. Service strategies will be developed through the implementation of the [&#8230;] <a href="https://ncdd.org/31938">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Post Election Community Conversation Reveals Concerns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2020 12:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Isabella Guzman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Days following the election, an online community conversation hosted and facilitated by NCDD member org The Interactivity Foundation, together with IONA Senior Services took place. During this convening, &#160;exploratory questions about our society and the prospect for forming a more perfect union were asked. The outcome is compiled in this article as a list of concerns in various sectors: the elections and health of our democracy, polarization and the role of the media.We look forward to Interactivity Foundations&#8217; decision to further follow this topic in [&#8230;] <a href="https://ncdd.org/31903">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Register for the Virtual Annual Civic Institute on August 21st</title>
		<link>https://ncdd.org/31461</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Isabella Guzman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This announcement comes to us from our friends at the David Matthews Center for Civic Life. ICYMI on Friday, August 21st, the Matthews Center will be hosting their annual Civic Institute with this year&#8217;s theme, Common Bonds: Collective Purpose and Civic Resilience in Uncertain Times.&#160; The event this year will be entirely online and open to folks outside the state, as well as free-of-charge! Make sure you see&#160;Dr. David Mathews, President and C.E.O. of the Kettering Foundation, give the keynote address sharing from his experiences [&#8230;] <a href="https://ncdd.org/31461">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>NIFI Updates Issue Guide on Immigration</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/31319</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Isabella Guzman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NCDD member org, the National Issues Forums Institute released their new updated issue guide, Immigration: What Should We Welcome? What Should We Do? In this short updated guide, you can find helpful information and three approaches to assist conversations on this topic that affects almost every single person in America. Read the new announcement below or find the original on NIFI&#8217;s here New Issue Guide &#8211; Immigration: Who Should We Welcome, What Should We Do? This issue is part of the Hidden Common Ground initiative, [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/31319">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Check Out the April Tech Tuesday with EnCiv!</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/31140</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2020 11:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtney Breese]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, we held the April Tech Tuesday featuring EnCiv and the Undebate platform! We were joined by 40 participants as Will Ferguson, David Fridley, and Adolf Gundersen of EnCiv walked us through their Undebate platform, and the newer Unrountable they are developing. If you weren&#8217;t able to make the call, this post includes all of the key link and information &#8211; check it out! EnCiv automates proven human-interaction methods to scale productive democratic discourse.&#160;The Undebate is being made available to voters across the country [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/31140">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Practical Academics shares: Online Meeting Best Practices</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/30997</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2020 11:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NCDD Community]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NCDD Member Michael Freedman of Practical Academics shared the following blog post with us. In the post, Michael shares best practices for your online meetings &#8211; a timely topic for this moment! We encourage you to check out the article below, or over at the Practical Academics site here. Online Meeting Best Practices The advantages of online meetings are to save travel time, convenience, and flexibility while retaining or augmenting the benefits of group interactivity. For interactivity, we need engagement; for engagement, we need encouragement [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/30997">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Recording Available for Cultivating Community Capacity!</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/31154</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2020 11:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtney Breese]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 24th, NCDD hosted a special event from NCDD sponsoring member Susan Stuart Clark of Common Knowledge, titled&#160;Cultivating Community Capacity with Four &#8220;Deep Wisdom&#8221; Practices. The event, attended by more than 60 participants, was the start of&#160;a series of activities and collection of resources at sense-us.org, a new pro bono project for Common Knowledge and allies in the arts, healing and community transformation. Susan shared with us the four practices identified by cross-cultural pioneer Angeles Arrien, which we can use to help deepen our [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/31154">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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