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issue/Unit 3 - Are We Listening?
How to Be an Active Listener
To introduce the students to the idea and component steps of active listening and give them practice applying those skills.
issue/Unit 5 - What Can We Do?
How to Handle a Difficult Conversation
To help student understand the underlying nature of difficult conversations, and to give them tools to turn difficult conversations into productive ones, and even into opportunities for learning.
video/Elections and Voting
How To Navigate a BallotEngine Voter Guide
Learn how to build your ballot through BallotEngine Voter Guide
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How to navigate a BallotEngine Voter Guide
This video explains how to properly navigate a BallotEngine platform so that you're ready to vote come election day.
news/Press Releases
In Support of the Proposed Amendment to the Home Rule Charter Educational Supplement
What is the amendment about? City voters will decide on May 15 whether the so-called Educational Supplement to the Home Rule Charter dealing with the public school system will be amended in various parts. These changes would impact the nomination, appointment and removal process for Board of Education members and create a Parent and Community Advisory Council charged with “consult[ing] on issues pertaining to educational policy and family and community engagement in schools.”
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Inaugural Women in Public Leadership Event
Join the Committee of Seventy for an event celebrating women in public service in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.
video/Voting Rights
Interview with Amber McReynolds
Amber McReynolds, CEO, National Vote at Home Institute
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Investing in Democracy with David Rubenstein
Watch the livestream from 6-7pm on November 21st of our program, Investing in Democracy: Patriotic Philanthropy and the Business Case for Civic Participation
event/Open to the Public
Joy of Voting
Parades, street theatre, open-air debates, and festivals – these were once part of America’s culture of voting and it’s time to revive them.
news/Press Releases
Keystone Votes Coalition Report Indicates Thousands of Lost or Late Voter Registration Records in 2016
17,000 late processed applications found in Philadelphia alone