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DO YOU KNOW a service-minded young person who would like to make a positive difference? Please share The Civic Circle’s AmeriCorps VISTA opportunity with your networks. This position includes full benefits, professional training opportunities, and tuition assistance. The VISTA will make a valuable social impact while gaining skills in program development, marketing, evaluation and nonprofit governance. We thank Transform Mid-Atlantic for sponsoring this position that will help us empower the next generation with civic skills like news literacy and voting. Apply via AmeriCorps HERE.

THE STORY OF JUNETEENTH, which is about freedoms granted and freedoms delayed, resonates with impact today. American freedoms are under threat to a greater degree than at any time in recent memory. Academic freedom, freedom of expression, artistic freedom, and freedom of assembly are just a few of the core American rights now at risk on several fronts. On paper, our nation remains a democracy. But not unlike illiberal democracies such as Hungary, India and Indonesia, we are discovering that

Arcola Elementary School students showcase their civic songs SONG, MOVEMENT, AND POETRY made for a joyful capstone to the school year in Civic Circle workshops. With songwriter and teaching artist Munit Mesfin, two student groups at Arcola Elementary School showcased the civic songs they had written for one another, and discussed their creative choices in a conversation across the grade levels. At the Pembridge Square Apartments, students sang songs about kindness, community and their dreams for the future with Lilo Gonzalez, who

THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING in The Civic Challenge! We hope you had fun. In our final newsletter of this campaign, we’re going to lead with an important message: We need your help to continue this work! You can support democracy and civic learning by clicking HERE, or on one of the links below! We also invite you to share your thoughts, or a favorite poem or quotation, on the following question: “How will you use your voice

ON DAY FOUR OF THE CIVIC CHALLENGE, we invite you to celebrate the power of community service and volunteering, the fourth “step to democracy” in our program (Join!). One of the most consistent outcomes of Civic Circle pre-post surveys is that very high percentages of participants leave our program “more excited about service-learning and helping others.” This demonstrates both how helping others supports student well-being, and how service-learning opens the door to community and civic