Join Civity on Sunday, April 23, for our special online workshop, as part of the National Week of Conversation! The workshop takes place from 12pm – 2pm PT / 3pm – 5pm ET on Zoom. Register Here! We look forward to seeing you and building relational muscle together!
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Stanford Study Shows Civity Helps Strengthen Democracy
(This post was updated on 04/22/23) A major new study out of Stanford University proves that Civity’s relational approach to connecting people across differences can strengthen democracy and reduce polarization by building social trust and fostering connection across difference. The Strengthening Democracy Challenge (SDC) – the largest social science experiment of its kind – measured …
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Join Us for a Virtual Civity Workshop on June 24!
We are pleased to offer our first virtual open-to-the-public workshop! If you haven’t experienced a Civity workshop yet, you can take advantage of this from wherever you are. Get a first-hand experience of how Civity works with leaders to build “social muscle,” cultivating relationships of respect, empathy and trust across difference. You’ll have a chance …
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Civity Is Now Offering Virtual Workshops!
Civity is excited to announce that we are now offering virtual workshops! We are thrilled to share this opportunity at a time when pandemic isolation is keeping us apart. Throughout this year, we’ve been hearing the same thing from our community partners again and again: People are hungrier than ever for spaces and opportunities in …
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One-on-One: Superhighway to Relationship
The core of what we do at Civity is one-on-one. In Civity workshops, participants share their personal stories and put difference on the table – one-on-one. In civity moments, leaders who have attended Civity workshops integrate time into meetings and group events for attendees to take a few minutes to exchange stories about who they …
Seeding Civity with Welcoming America
We officially kicked off our Welcoming America Seeding Civity partnership with a Civity workshop in San José, CA, on September 4. Through this partnership, made possible by a grant from the Hewlett Foundation, we will be supporting selected Welcoming Network members to deepen their work by creating and growing opportunities for people to build relationships …
Civity and Welcoming America Announce New “Seeding Civity” Partnership
Civity and Welcoming America are pleased to announce a new partnership to offer training and coaching assistance to selected communities interested in deepening work to foster connections across difference. Welcoming America is a national nonprofit that helps communities across the country achieve prosperity by becoming more welcoming toward immigrants and all residents. Working with Welcoming …
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Seeding Civity: An Update From Louisville
We asked Louisville community leaders to share examples of spaces in the Louisville community where they see Civity connections happening or potential for them to happen. Over the past year, we have been steadily strengthening the foundations for Civity connection in Louisville, Kentucky—the 29th most-populous city in the U.S. and one of the pilot communities …
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Seeing Beyond the Title: Supporting Civity Conversations at the Human Library
This summer, Civity worked closely with Derek Wolfgram and Jenny Barnes from the Redwood City Public Library to help bring to life the city’s first-ever Human Library event. The Human Library project—launched 18 years ago in Denmark—challenges stereotypes and prejudices through one-on-one conversations. In a Human Library, the “Books” are people with “Titles” such as …
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Seeding Civity: An Update From Redwood City
Our Seeding Civity initiative is off to the races in our first partner community: Redwood City – home to around 86,000 residents and located 27 miles south of San Francisco. Redwood City’s diverse population and changing demographics create ideal opportunities for Civity-building. Like many cities in Silicon Valley, Redwood City is a changing community. The …
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