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Civic participation encompasses a wide range of formal and informal activities, such as voting, volunteering, participating in group activities, and community gardening. 1 Some are individual activities that benefit society (e.g., voting) or group activities that benefit either the group members (e.g., recreational soccer teams) or society (e.g., volunteer organizations). 1 In addition to the ...
- What Is Civic Engagement?
- Why Fund Civic Engagement?
- How Can Health Funders Support Civic Engagement?
- Community Organizing
- Leadership Development
- Voter Engagement
- Census Support
- Redistricting Advocacy
- General Operating Support
- Technical Assistance
PACE defines civic engagement as “helping people be active participants in building and strengthening their communities, whether defined as a place or a shared identity or interest.” This inclusive definition reflects a spectrumof ways people can participate in their communities—including both public- and private-sector interactions—such as voting,...
The link between civic engagement and health status is well-established, but causal relationships are complex. A growing evidence base indicates that increased levels of civic engagement are associated with improved health status. The Health & Democracy Index developed by Healthy Democracy Healthy People shows that states with more inclusive voting...
As described by FCCP, funders can pursue a wide range of strategiesto promote civic engagement and strengthen the civic infrastructure. Civic engagement activities most commonly cited by health funders participating in this scan include community organizing, leadership development, voter engagement, census support, and redistricting advocacy. These...
In the Power Moves toolkit, the National Center for Responsive Philanthropydefines community organizing as: This definition centers affected constituencies as the agents of change, rather than paid advocates or lobbyists who represent community interests. Organizing and base building are pivotalto community power building efforts. Groups that facil...
Community organizing is closely tied to leadership development, as these activities depend on community leaders who can cultivate strong relationships with other community members and mobilize broader support for and participation in organizing efforts. Leadership development builds the knowledge, skills, confidence, and network of community leader...
Voting is perhaps the primary and most visible expression of active participation in democracy. Voters participate in elections to choose representatives for government at federal, state, and local levels and to decide ballot initiatives in some states and localities. Although voter participationhas trended upward in recent years, approximately one...
The decennial census has profound implications for the health and vitality of communities across the country. Results influence allocation of public sector resources in programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); dictate reapportionment of political representation at the federal, state, and local levels; and inf...
After each decennial census, new U.S. congressional and state legislative district lines are drawn in a process known as redistricting. This redistricting process is a critical opportunity to ensure equitable political representation and address systemic inequities. Gerrymandering (i.e., when boundaries are drawn with the intention of influencing w...
As the preceding examples suggest, organizations involved in supporting civic engagement often rely on a combination of strategies to advance their work. In order to truly center community needs and priorities, civic engagement and power building organizations require flexibility to build institutional knowledge, sustain staff capacity, direct reso...
In addition to providing project and general operating support grants, funders can also strengthen the civic engagement infrastructure by offering technical assistance to civic engagement organizations. These grassroots organizations are often relatively small in terms of both staff size and operating budgets and may lack access to costly data reso...
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Oct 12, 2021 · Civic health is a powerful indicator of overall health, with lower voting rates consistently associated with poorer health; for instance, patients with chronic illnesses are less likely to vote ...
- Simar Singh Bajaj, Alister Francois Martin, Fatima Cody Stanford
- 2021
Aug 19, 2021 · On its website, the National Institutes of Health promotes 30 educational programs, for example, Aim for a Healthy Weight, as prototypes for improving decision making on health concerns. At ...
Mar 9, 2022 · Nonpartisan initiatives such as Vot-ER—“Vote like our health depends on it”—bring a focus on voting rights and civic engagement into health care settings where patients can register to ...
Over 300 hospitals and care organizations have sought to promote such voter access and advance healthcare-based voter registration through National Civic Health Month in August, hosting voter registration drives, displaying posters with voting resources and facilitating conversations among patients about civic engagement 7,8. One example is ...
Nov 17, 2022 · Civic engagement includes efforts by individuals and groups to influence laws, policies, regulations, and governmental practices that relate to the public good, including health and health care. 2 Such efforts include voting, volunteering, becoming members of community organizations, participating in community organizing, engaging in activism ...
