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The National Civic League has launched its Healthy Democracy Ecosystem Map, with data from 1,257 organizations in 10 states. The map will expand to include the whole country, and you can add organizations to it. The categories of work represented on the map are:
- Civic associations
- Civic education/civic learning
- Civic media
- Civic research [research about or in support of civic life)]
- Civic technology
- Connecting across differences
- Deliberative, participatory, and direct democracy
- Electoral reform
- Faith-based efforts
- Organizing and advocacy
- Service and volunteerism
- Voter engagement
The literal map is useful for seeing the physical locations of organizations. The database also supports other visualizations apart geospatial ones.
I attempted scans a bit like this in previous decades. I put diagrams of what I called the “civic renewal” field on this blog in 2005 and 2016. For people who are interested in global examples–especially in the categories of deliberative or participatory democracy and organizing and advocacy–Participedia.net is the go-to site. You can trace relevant funding at the US Democracy Hub. But for an extensive database of US civic organizations, the Healthy Democracy Ecosystem Map is the place to go.