This week, PACE released the data from its Civic Language Perceptions Project, which seeks to understand people’s perceptions of the language associated with civic engagement and democracy work. In partnership with Citizen Data, PACE fielded a nationally representative survey of 5,000 registered voters between November 21–28, 2021. …

For the better part of the last year, The Ronald Reagan Institute has been looking deeply into the latest trends of civics education through their State of Civics series. Their approach gives us an insider look at the civic education initiatives of various states, and to date, they have hosted…

Early in 2021, PACE announced commitments to focus areas for its learning. One of those areas was bridging and polarization, which continues to feel like some of the highest work we could do right now as a community of civic-minded funders. Over the last many months, we explored this topic…

Ranked Choice Voting — or RCV — is a hot topic in democratic circles lately. To give a refresher, RCV allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference on their ballot. When no one candidate wins a majority of votes, the lowest vote-earner is eliminated and their votes are…

PACE’s Faith In/And Democracy initiative’s ultimate goal is to inspire interest and investment at the intersection of faith and democracy. We know this intersection — which is becoming a field in its own right — is not well resourced or understood (read this and this if you need convincing). …

This summer, a new civic tradition was born. Civic Season ran from June 14-July 15, 2021 with the goal of creating a new type of civic tradition — one that mobilizes us all to connect with our past, take action in the present, and shape the future through activities and…

In civic work and in philanthropy work, we talk a lot about the importance of listening to people with lived experiences — or the people closest to the problems we seek to understand and engage through our philanthropy. But where do we turn if we are trying to understand polarization…

Recently, PACE had the honor of hosting Dr. Yuval Levin, Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at American Enterprise Institute and author of the 2020 book, A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream. …

Perhaps it was the political events of 2020. Perhaps it was the racial events of 2020. Perhaps it was the global pandemic. Perhaps it was all of the above. Whatever the impetus, it feels like there is renewed interest and curiosity in civic education building in many sectors, including philanthropy. …