Reports & Resources
Greater Voice, Greater Impact: Americans’ Views on Making Democracy Work for Everyone
Greater Voice, Greater Impact: Americans' Views on Making Democracy Work for Everyone The Second Report from the Annual Yankelovich Democracy Monitor From impeachment and divisive rhetoric to an aging infrastructure...
Keeping People Connected: A Nuts-and-Bolts Toolkit for Engagement
Keeping People Connected: A nuts-and-bolts toolkit for engaging residents, businesses, and property owners in problem-solving, decision-making and community-building is a resource that you can use in your work to help...
Sounder Public Judgment Working Paper Series
Sounder Public Judgment Working Paper Series Helping the public come to terms with tough issues in today’s digital and divisive world In this time of endemic mistrust, fake news, extreme...
Rewiring Democracy: Subconscious Technologies, Conscious Engagement, and the Future of Politics
Too often, the people working to strengthen democracy have been caught flat-footed by the pace of new trends and innovations. All kinds of changes, many of them driven by technology,...
Strengthening and Sustaining Public Engagement: A Planning Guide for Communities
On all kinds of issues, people want more choices, more information and more of a say. Whether the topic is how schools should work or what should be in the...
Infogagement: Citizenship and Democracy in the Age of Connection
The re-released paper and its contributors discuss a range of approaches to reforming our public square. By Matt Leighninger Full paper published at www.medium.com/infogagement In 2014, Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement...
Elevating Community College Faculty Voices
Over four years, Public Agenda partnered with the League for Innovation in the Community College (“the League”) to strengthen their capacity to be field leaders in the practice of effective...
Tackling Transfer: A Guide to Convening Community Colleges and Universities to Improve Transfer Student Outcomes
Nationally representative surveys reveal that the vast majority of students who begin community college aim to earn a bachelor’s degree, but fewer than 15 percent achieve that goal within six...
Strengthening and Sustaining Public Engagement in Vermont
Whether the topic is how schools should work or what should be in the local budget, Vermonters want their voices to be heard. And residents have a lot to contribute,...
Power To The People! (And Settings for Using It Wisely?)
Balancing direct and deliberative democracy in participatory budgeting processes From its inception in Brazil in 1989, participatory budgeting (PB) has incorporated, to varying degrees, both direct and deliberative democracy. In...
Brazil Has Reduced Inequality Incrementally – Can We Do the Same?
Gauging the Potential of Participatory Budgeting in the United States and Canada For anyone concerned with economic and political inequality, the rise and impacts of participatory budgeting (PB) are certainly...
A Process of Growth: The Expansion of Participatory Budgeting in the United States and Canada in 2015 – 16
In Greensboro, North Carolina, participatory budgeting, or PB, started thanks to the grassroots efforts of community members. Hoping to enable residents to have a say in their local budgets, they...
Brazil Has Reduced Inequality Incrementally – Can We Do the Same?
Brazil Has Reduced Inequality Incrementally - Can We Do the Same? Gauging the Potential of Participatory Budgeting in the United States and Canada For anyone concerned with economic...
Why Let the People Decide? Elected Officials on Participatory Budgeting
Elected officials across the country report that participatory budgeting helped them be more responsive to community needs, improved their political prospects and engaged their constituents more in political life, according...
Transforming Governance: How Can Technology Help Reshape Democracy?
Around the world, people are asking how we can make democracy work in new and better ways. We are frustrated by political systems in which voting is the only legitimate...
The Transfer Playbook: Essential Practices for Two- and Four-Year Colleges
Fewer than one in seven degree-seeking community college students transfer and graduate with a bachelor's degree. How do we help the millions of students failed by current transfer practices and...
Public Spending, By The People: Participatory Budgeting In The United States And Canada In 2014 – 15
From 2014 to 2015, more than 70,000 residents across the United States and Canada directly decided how their cities and districts should spend nearly $50 million in public funds through...
Understanding The Academic Calendar: A Resource Guide
Developed by the Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN), this resource helps higher-education professionals better understand definitions and terms related to the academic calendar. Public Agenda is a supporting organization of C-BEN. 2016
Questions Information Technology Professionals Should Ask About Competency-Based Education Programs
Developed by the Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN), this resource helps information technology professionals support competency-based innovation on their campuses. The questions raised in this document will ensure institutions have the...
