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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

Click above to watch Malachi Byrd read the audience-written collective poem “Democracy to Me.” WELCOME TO DAY THREE of the Civic Challenge! Today is all about voting (Choose!). Voting is at the heart of democracy, and students in our workshops do mock elections, learn about voting rights, and create their own songs, poems and art about what it means to make decisions as a group. Today, we invite you to support our work to empower civic engagement through

WELCOME TO DAY TWO of The Civic Challenge! This week, we are inviting you to support our urgent mission to empower youth civic engagement through the arts. We’re also inviting you to weigh in on why the seven “steps to democracy” at the core of our program matter to you. Today, we invite your reflections on how to sift truth from fiction (Learn!), an increasingly challenging task for students as reliable news sources compete with conspiracy theories on

TODAY, WE INVITE YOU to help up promote democracy and student success! Day one of this challenge will focus on the first “step to democracy” in our program: Civility, respect and peaceful conflict resolution (Listen!). This challenge is twofold. First, we invite you to support our program so we can continue helping students learn tolerance and civility through activities like listening games, conflict resolution scenarios, and teaching artist residencies that explore nonviolence, bullying prevention and peace. Second, we challenge