Citizens Jury is coming to Milwaukie, Oregon
Five thousand randomly selected Milwaukie households were mailed a letter this week, giving individuals in those households a chance to...
Five thousand randomly selected Milwaukie households were mailed a letter this week, giving individuals in those households a chance to...
John Frohnmayer was the keynote speaker at the Healthy Democracy 10th Anniversary Celebration on April 8, 2019. Enjoy his words...
From The Los Angeles Times: . . . By contrast, the review process for citizen ballot measures is woefully inadequate...
The Portland metro area is hosting its first-ever Citizens’ Initiative Review (CIR), facilitated by Healthy Democracy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit based...
The Portland metro area is hosting its first-ever Citizens’ Initiative Review (CIR), facilitated by Healthy Democracy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit based...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Healthy Democracy, a nonprofit nonpartisan organization that pioneered the Citizens’ Initiative Review, will be holding a public event to...
Got This Letter in Your Mail? You’ve won the democracy lottery! If you received the letter, you have a chance...
Into the Central Oregon barn walked students with purple hair, red Chuck Taylor high tops, and silver nose rings. They were gay and straight, male and female; each of them young, and all of them environmental studies majors from Lewis and Clark College in Portland. Greeting them were farmers in Oregon State baseball caps and ranchers with silver hair beneath cowboy hats, and small timber operators with the scars to prove it. Some were young, but most were less young, and all had lived their lives and were making their living on the soil of the small Crook County community of Powell Butte.
From May 21st to 25th, 10th-grade students at La Follette High School in Madison will have the opportunity to dive deeper into a hotly debated current issue: whether the Madison School Board should renew its contract for educational resource officers (EROs) at district high schools.
Join us 9am-3:30pm, April 14th, 2018 for "Bringing Participatory Budgeting to the Portland Region", a one-day community forum to learn from PB innovators with experience in Seattle, Oakland, and Boston and discuss the possibilities for our communities.
Executive Director Robin Teater reviews our accomplishments in 2017 and looks ahead to the new year.
HD's summer 2017 Nevins Fellow, Andy Puthenpurayil, argues that one often-distorted category of ballot measures – those dealing with 'three strikes' laws and other criminal justice matters – could particularly benefit from the clarity of a CIR-style review.
Program Director Jessie Conover writes a few goodbyes on her leaving Healthy Democracy and the world of deliberative democracy.
Robin Teater writes a goodbye to our beloved program director, Jessie Conover.
In a talk at the Frontiers of Democracy conference in Boston, Ashley Trim calls for greater political inclusiveness within universities and the deliberative democracy community.
Jessie Conover responds to recent articles calling for less public participation in our democracy.
Linn Davis makes the case for urban thinker Jane Jacobs as a grandmother of modern public engagement.
Robin Teater and Linn Davis recap the 2017 Elevate Engagement conference.
Wendy Willis reviews our first Democracy Salon on the topic of trust and journalism. The discussion, she writes, surfaced a number of important questions: "What is the appropriate balance between trust and skepticism?" "How do we foster belonging in a mass society?" and, more succinctly, "What the hell is going on?"
Jessie Conover reviews #Republic, the inspiration for our series on cultivating a healthy and balanced news diet.
Jessie Conover shares her own journey to a more healthy and balanced news diet, through a series of simple steps.
Jessie Conover discusses the need for a healthy and balanced news diet to support a healthy democracy, including a taxonomy of news "food groups."
From WWLP 22 News: BOSTON (WWLP) – State lawmakers are working to make voting easier on election day. Ballot questions...
Program Director Jessie Conover offers tips for nonpartisan organizations in a time of "existential threats to our democracy".
For the second time, the Oregon Citizens' Initiative Review has been named a Top 10 Innovations in American Government recipient by Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
After too many years working in the advertising industry as a Creative Director, one day I came to the liberating...
It has been my great privilege to have served the Healthy Democracy organization over the past 4 ½ years alongside...
Over the summer, Healthy Democracy was grateful to welcome Annabelle LaRosa as our 2020 Nevins Fellow. The Nevins Fellowship, through...
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