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Greater Boston Civics Day Fall 2014 Highlights
Click below to see the highlights from our Greater Boston area Fall 2014 Civics Day, including stories from students, videos of our speakers, and much more!
Generation Citizen Annual Report 2014
We are excited to share our 2013-2014 Annual Report. The Report highlights key achievements of the past year; including our efforts towards providing high impact action civics to over 7,000 students, building demand for action civics, and bolstering our organization’s infrastructure and capacity. Click the image below to read Executive Director Scott Warren’s introductory letter,… Continue reading Generation Citizen Annual Report 2014
Generation Citizen Impact Briefing
We are excited to share with you a recording of Generation Citizen’s (GC) Impact Briefing. In the hour-long webinar that took place on October 22, we reviewed GC’s first annual Impact Report. The webinar and report are the results of a year-long effort to build out a more comprehensive system to measure impact and ensure… Continue reading Generation Citizen Impact Briefing
NOV 1st: Join Us at GC’s Civic Tech Challenge Feat. Jeff Bussgang
Are you ready for the Civic Tech Challenge, Saturday November 1st at Microsoft NERD? At this unique event, Boston’s biggest tech innovators will team up with GC’s most passionate high school students to hack solutions to Boston’s biggest community problems. At the evening reception, join keynote and honoree Jeff Bussgang and a Judging Panel… Continue reading NOV 1st: Join Us at GC’s Civic Tech Challenge Feat. Jeff Bussgang
Reflections on Narrative in Civics Education
Narrative has been something that has long intrigued me because of how primal it is for humans to share stories with each other. Narrative unifies us and allows us to share experiences so that we may navigate the complicated power structures in this world. It connects us on the deep levels of our most treasured… Continue reading Reflections on Narrative in Civics Education
GC’s First Cohort of Community Change Fellows Graduates!
NYC City Councilmember Ritchie Torres with Community Change Fellow Alexis Ramirez In Summer 2014, Generation Citizen piloted its newest program, the Community Change Fellowship, which was designed to create opportunities for sustained civic engagement amongst graduated high school students. Applicants participated in a competitive application process, and those selected were placed in an internship… Continue reading GC’s First Cohort of Community Change Fellows Graduates!
A Local Hero’s Embodiment of Community Loyalty
One of the most difficult questions that I frequently have to answer is, “Where are you from?” Although I was born in San Diego, I moved away when I was eight when my dad joined the State Department, moving to four different countries in ten years throughout Latin America and Africa, went to college in… Continue reading A Local Hero’s Embodiment of Community Loyalty
GC Presents at Annual AERA Conference
In early April, Jason Fitzgerald (a professor at Wagner College on Staten Island who has taught college students volunteering with Generation Citizen and doing related activities), Barbara Ferman (a professor at Temple University and the director of the University Community Collaborative, a partner organization in the National Action Civics Collaborative), and I presented on preparing… Continue reading GC Presents at Annual AERA Conference
Teaching Again
A few months ago, at brunch with my good friend Dave Flink (who runs the tremendous organization, Eye to Eye), I was complaining about how out of touch I felt with Generation Citizen’s program. Every morning, I said, I woke up thinking not about our program or our mission, but rather, our budget, personnel, our… Continue reading Teaching Again