{"id":5052,"date":"2006-09-21T11:38:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T11:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2006-09-21T11:38:44","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T11:38:44","slug":"citizens-at-the-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5052","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Citizens at the Center&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Gibson has published a White Paper, funded by the Case Foundation, entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.casefoundation.org\/spotlight\/civic_engagement\/summary\">Citizens at the Center: A New Approach to Civic Engagement<\/a>.&#8221; It&#8217;s groundbreaking because it asks funders, policymakers, and others to look beyond individual acts of civic participation, such as voting and volunteering, and instead to consider people&#8217;s collective work in naming, discussing, and addressing problems. If taken seriously, Cindy&#8217;s paper would cause major changes in philanthropy and policy throughout the fields of &#8220;service&#8221; and &#8220;citizenship.&#8221; I have posted somewhat more detailed comments on a discussion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casefoundation.org\/spotlight\/civic_engagement\/summary\">page <\/a>that Case has set up; many others have weighed in as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Gibson has published a White Paper, funded by the Case Foundation, entitled &#8220;Citizens at the Center: A New Approach to Civic Engagement.&#8221; It&#8217;s groundbreaking because it asks funders, policymakers, and others to look beyond individual acts of civic participation, such as voting and volunteering, and instead to consider people&#8217;s collective work in naming, discussing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}