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Oct 29, 2015
3 min

Guest Blog: How Civity Served as a Catalyst for LGBT Civil Rights

By Mariah Burton Nelson Over the past 40 years, I’ve told whole hordes of people that I’m a lesbian. I now prefer to think of this as b...

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Palma Joy Strand

Oct 29, 2015
1 min

From “NO” to “KNOW”

(PHOTOS COURTESY: Angry Asian Man) A few weeks ago in San Francisco, “NO MORE CHINESE” graffiti appeared in the Portola district. Days la...

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P. J. Strand & M. Kopell

Jul 22, 2015
2 min

Civity and Inequities - and Privilege

Snails and caterpillars - what do these have to do with privilege? And what do they have to do with Civity?! The short video "Sometimes Y...

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P. J. Strand & M. Kopell

Jul 22, 2015
1 min

The Civity Conversations Pilot Project

A Civity Conversation is a valuable tool for “connecting through difference.” People who care about their community contact someone in th...

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Gina Baleria

Jul 22, 2015
2 min

Civity Has Launched!

The cutting-edge Civity initiative helps people work better together to solve community problems, and many prominent leaders and thinkers...

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P. J. Strand & M. Kopell

Jul 6, 2015
1 min

This Is Civity

Welcome to the first Civity newsletter! You are receiving this because you have been identified as a civic leader and/or organizatio...

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Palma Joy Strand

Apr 14, 2015
2 min

Why "Civity"?

by Palma Strand When Malka and I first started writing about “civity,” our computers and phones auto-corrected it to “cavity.” (Good for ...

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P. J. Strand & M. Kopell

Feb 4, 2015
3 min

Civility in California Higher Education

As we said in an earlier post, civity is related to civility. Civity’s bridging relationships of respect, empathy, and trust, which enab...

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P. J. Strand & M. Kopell

Oct 27, 2014
3 min

Civity and dialogue – thinking out loud

by Gina Bartlett, Senior Mediator, Consensus Building Institute A number of years ago, a colleague called to say that a client of mine wa...

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Palma Joy Strand

Sep 30, 2014
2 min

Our founding - and foundational - frame

Malka and I met over a project. About 10 years ago, two colleagues and I received a grant from the Hewlett Foundation to write and produc...

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P. J. Strand & M. Kopell

Sep 10, 2014
2 min

Welcome to our Civity blog!

by Palma Strand and Malka Kopell We are launching this blog to provide a space for discussion about creating communities where people wor...

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