PACE is excited to share a new paper, which draws on the wisdom and insights shared by 60+ civic funders and practitioners about how they are navigating specific civic language challenges.
This paper was informed by a series of Civic Language Solution Sprints, which PACE hosted in October and November 2022. Each solution sprint organized a group of 10-15 funders, practitioners, and thought leaders to respond to specific civic language challenges raised in the America + Civic Language report and invited them to explain how the issues are impacting their work, share what solutions they are deploying to address the issues, and apply some of the principles of imagination to how we might move forward on the issues as a field. The goal was to democratize the process of determining what we might do about some of the challenges raised in the data and analysis about civic language.
While the report outlines 24 areas of civic language guidance, here are six examples to highlight:
