National Civic Review articles from December 2007

National Civic Review archives from December 2007

Note from the editor.(Editorial)
December 22, 2007... First time visitors to an All-America City competition are often unprepared for what they encounter. One way to describe the experience would be as a cross between cheer leader camp and a scholarly two-day seminar on the latest trends in...

Twenty years of community service: how NCL assists local problem-solving and strategic planning projects.(National Civic League)
December 22, 2007... In 2002, Civic League Vice President Derek Okubo met with city officials in Gladstone, Missouri, a suburban community on the northern edge of Kansas City. He went there to discuss the possibility of helping the community through a participatory...

The 2007 All-America City Awards.(City overview)
December 22, 2007... A billboard from the mid-1980s seemed to say it all: "WOULD THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE DUBUQUE, IOWA, PLEASE TURN OFF THE LIGHTS?" Like many other manufacturing towns in the industrial Midwest, Dubuque was suffering the combined effects of a...

The 2007 MetLife Foundation Ambassadors in Education.
December 22, 2007... "This award celebrates teachers who build bridges between students' school and community lives," noted MetLife Foundation president Sibyl Jacobson when the names of the 2007 award winners were announced. "We encourage this year's winners to...

Toward a peaceable paradigm: seeking innate wellness in communities and impacts on urban violence and crime.
December 22, 2007... Working in community revitalization and resident empowerment programs in some of the most at-risk communities in the nation over the last twenty-five years, we have observed a correlation between how we work with communities (from what we might...

Update on election day registration.(POLITICAL REFORM)
December 22, 2007... Momentum continues to build around election day registration (EDR), as two more states passed legislation in 2007 and a handful of others came close. This article is intended to be a brief update, outlining the key issues in the debate and...

Integrating emergency and disaster planning.(LOCAL GOVERNMENT)
December 22, 2007... A critical point that is often overlooked in emergency management is that an emergency does not begin or end with the incident itself. How a community responds and recovers from a disaster depends on proper planning, preparation, and...