EVENT RECAP: November 11th-12th, 2021 Special Veterans Day Event + 75th Annual Conference on Citizenship “Accelerate Democracy” Programming On November 11th and 12th, the 2021 Annual Conference on Citizenship brought together the best and brightest civic leaders for an action-packed event to accelerate democracy in communities across...
September 27, 2022 - The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities has published the 2022 Rhode Island Civic Health Index. This report serves as the state’s first-ever Civic Health Index, an initiative led by the Humanities Council in partnership with the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) and...
Since Robert Putnam’s 1995 article “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital” and his 2000 book of a similar title, policymakers and nonprofit funders have sent out warning signals about the state of civic engagement. Traditional measures of civic life and volunteering show declining rates of...
