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Renewing Democracy’s Promise

Creating the space where institutions, communities, and students strengthen democracy—together.

How We Practice Democracy: Together

This four-year initiative brings higher education institutions, students, scholars, and community organizations together in a space where we stop studying democracy from a distance and directly practice it in three ongoing steps.
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    Step 1: Dialogue

    We have difficult conversations that bridge disagreements in respectful, nonpartisan settings.

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    Step 2: Community

    Our dialogue reveals problems we can solve, and we unite to design actionable solutions.

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    Step 3: Action

    We activate our network’s democratic efforts on campuses, throughout communities, and in election systems nationwide.

The nation’s founders created American democracy in a shared act of independence, and it only survives if we preserve it together. Renewing Democracy’s Promise is our reminder that our freedoms are a continuous collaboration, the action we take to strengthen those liberties nationwide, and the nonpartisan, inclusive space celebrating our partners’ civic thinking and engagement.

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