National Civic Review articles from March 2000

National Civic Review archives from March 2000

NOTE FROM THE PRESIDENT.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... IN 1994, the National Civic League launched an ambitious effort to engage organizations from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors in a national dialogue on community renewal. The hope was to bring together partners from across the country...

National Renewal.
March 22, 2000... Civilizations rise and fall--and sometimes, if they are lucky--they renew themselves. Theoretically, the possibility of national renewal is ever-present but in fact it comes in bursts. We concern ourselves here with the coming burst, or--to...

The Alliance for National Renewal: A Community Experience.
March 22, 2000... John W Gardner was my mentor many decades before I met him. I quoted John many times in my 1972 doctoral dissertation on leadership. As a community educator for the past twenty-five years and a foundation education program officer during the...

Bridging a Transition.
March 22, 2000... We are in the process of transition to a new century and millennium and facing the future. And judging by the chorus of anxious doom-and-gloom prophets and exhortation by political scientists and those who study public and civic interactions...

An Interview with Sandra Gray.(Interview)
March 22, 2000... Editor's Note: When John W. Gardner and the National Civic League founded the Alliance for National Renewal, one of the first persons invited to join the effort was Sandra Gray, director of the leadership program at INDEPENDENT SECTOR. Gray's...

Youth and the Future of Community Renewal.
March 22, 2000... Too often families, community, and public institutions fail to recognize and harness the tremendous energy and commitment of young people to make positive social change. There are many youth in low-income communities who have great untapped...

Young Adults and Civic Participation.
March 22, 2000... In the wake of an article by Ted Halstead in the August 1999 Atlantic Monthly, a new wave of rhetoric has emerged in youth voting. Although people working in the sector have known about the "new politics of Generation X" for years, it took a...

The Common Enterprise: A Report from San Antonio, Texas.
March 22, 2000... Five years ago I sat in the audience and listened to National Civic League chair John Gardner challenge us--those of us who spent our lives trying to build community--to join a national movement of American renewal. John's vision put in words...

Community and Governance in the Washington, D.C., Schools.
March 22, 2000... In 1995, a sadly impecunious and distressed District of Columbia had its home rule charter effectively revoked. Congress placed the district under the jurisdiction of the Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority or the...

Reconnecting Communities and Their Schools Through Authentic Dialogue.
March 22, 2000... Early in 1997, a group of citizens of Rapides Parish in central Louisiana were in despair over their communities' K-12 education system. The superintendent had filed a lawsuit against the school board and district, and the local paper had...

RLA in Retrospect: One Nonprofit's Efforts to Effect Change.(Rebuild Los Angeles)
March 22, 2000... And so began Rebuild L.A., an unparalleled effort to harness the energies of business, government and the community to tackle social problems. Calvin Sims, "Who Said Los Angeles Could Be Rebuilt in a Day?" New York Times, May 22, 1994 ...

Leadership in the Twenty-First Century: Working to Build a Civil Society.
March 22, 2000... The nature of leadership has shifted and is fundamentally changed; it is horizontal now and not vertical. Harlan Cleveland, retired international diplomat, November 1998 Dramatic changes are affecting the social, economic, natural, and...

Instant Runoffs: A Cheaper, Fairer, Better Way to Conduct Elections.
March 22, 2000... In 1997, Democrats in New York City faced an uphill challenge in seeking to oust the incumbent mayor, Rudolph Giuliani. Their leading contender, Manhattan Borough president Ruth Messinger, finished a clear first in the September primary but...