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02/25/2021

Questions & Answers About COVID-19 Vaccines

When it comes to the COVID-19 vaccines, you might be asking yourself—should I take it? Is it safe? Will it help me get back to the moments I miss? Wanting to know more is a good thing. Getting informed about COVID-19 vaccines is an important step to help stop this pandemic. That’s why we’re excited to partner with the Ad Council and The COVID Collaborative to help you get the latest facts. Visit www.GetVaccineAnswers.org to learn more.

Answers to questions you may have about COVID-19 vaccines all in one place. This initiative brought to you by the Ad Council and our partners. Learn more!

02/10/2021

Fireside Chat with Dr. Anthony Fauci | Moderated by Governors Deval Patrick and Dirk Kempthorne

Watch one of Dr. Fauci’s first appearances as the Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden as he answers questions about how the new administration is approaching the COVID-19 crisis.

This conversation was hosted by the COVID Collaborative, a project of UNITE, and moderated by Governors Deval Patrick (D-MA) and Dirk Kempthorne (R-ID), the co-chairs of the Collaborative.

This is "Fireside Chat with Dr. Anthony Fauci | Moderated by Governors Deval Patrick and Dirk Kempthorne" by COVID Collaborative on Vimeo, the home for…

10/29/2020

Americans express a "wait and see" attitude toward COVID-19 vaccine, but trust in own doctors, free access and peer reinforcement could drive vaccine uptake

Why are Americans hesitant to take a #COVID19 vaccine? Our NEW national poll conducted with Hart Research Associates finds that 79% of Americans—including 84% of African Americans and 80% of Latinx—fear the vaccine will be rushed for political reasons. Learn more: https://prn.to/34DLgzp

/PRNewswire/ -- COVID Collaborative, a bipartisan assembly of health, education, and economic experts, today released a national poll with Hart Research...

10/22/2020

Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity & Opportunity

Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity & Opportunity

Re-Imagine Democracy: Towards Perfecting the Union Town Hall Forum

10/09/2020

Strategies for Success Report Release 2020

Join us on October 20 at 2pm ET to discuss the #StrategiesforSuccess report and how we can better support students experiencing homelessness.

The release event will focus on the lessons learned from interviews with educators in Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Texas, and Virginia to identify strategies schools and districts are using to successfully mitigate the challenges students experiencing homelessness face in attending and succeeding in school. It will feature perspectives from a homeless liaison, a student who has experienced homelessness, and student homelessness policy experts to discuss ways schools and districts can support students experiencing homelessness, especially in the current environment.

Register below! #EducationLeadsHome SchoolHouse Connection America's Promise Alliance https://bit.ly/2Fai4Gr

The Education Leads Home campaign invites you to join them on Tuesday, October 20 at 2:00pm E.T. to learn about their new report.

09/30/2020

Building A Grad Nation: Meet the Moment 2020

Building A Grad Nation: Meet the Moment 2020

Register to discuss Building A Grad Nation and the state of high school graduation in our country on Thursday, October 1, 1:30 – 3:00 pm ET!

09/21/2020

Building A Grad Nation: Meet the Moment 2020

Join Civic, America's Promise Alliance, Alliance for Excellent Education, and Everyone Graduates Center on October 1st to hear from former U.S. Secretaries of Education Arne Duncan, John B. King, Jr., and Margaret Spellings as we discuss the education impacts of #COVID19 and learnings from the 2020 Building a #GradNation Report: https://bit.ly/32Im6Ph

Register to discuss Build A Grad Nation and the state of high school graduation in our country on Thursday, October 1, 1:30 – 3:00 pm ET!

09/16/2020

Schultz Family Foundation and Serve Washington Launch Washington COVID Response Corps to Address Food Insecurity Crisis and Create Meaningful Community Service Opportunities for Young People

The Schultz Family Foundation joined Serve Washington to announce the creation of the Washington COVID Response Corps. The youth service corps, which is the first of its kind in the nation created in response to the pandemic, will deploy 100 AmeriCorps members between the ages of 17-25 during the coming year to assist community non-profits focused on alleviating food insecurity in Washington State.

/PRNewswire/ -- The Schultz Family Foundation, founded by former Starbucks CEO and chairman emeritus Howard Schultz and his wife Sheri Schultz, today joined...

07/23/2020

Domestic Policy Experts on COVID Recovery

ICYMI: A great discussion with Aspen's Melody Barnes & Stephen Patrick and John Bridgeland discussing whether COVID-19 can serve as a catalyst for social change: "America at An Inflection Point."
https://youtu.be/JEbeIwFqBsY

Featuring Melody Barnes, chair of the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions and Opportunity Youth Forum and former director of the White House Domest...

07/20/2020

Taking Stock: America at an Inflection Point
Wednesday, July 22 at 3pm MT/5pm ET

Featuring Melody Barnes and John Bridgeland in conversation with Stephen Patrick, the panel will discuss the nation’s COVID-19 response and how it has exposed deep systemic inequities in our nation.

Can COVID-19 serve as a catalyst for social change? As we think about domestic policy and recovery in the years ahead, how do we build a more equitable future for all Americans?

Register here: https://bit.ly/2ZCpcTa

06/29/2020

Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

New analysis finds that #SEL competencies align with the skills employers are seeking. Read CASEL’s new report, created with Civic, “Preparing Youth for the Workforce of Tomorrow.” https://bit.ly/2NsKjAL

06/18/2020

Tennis for America Launches in Sites Across the Nation | ITA #WeAreCollegeTennis

The new Tennis for America service year will place AmeriCorps VISTA members across the country to utilize their extensive tennis backgrounds and academic credentials to add significant value to the organizations that are making important progress fighting poverty and creating opportunity within their communities.

https://www.wearecollegetennis.com/2020/06/11/tennis-for-america-launches-in-sites-across-the-nation/?fbclid=IwAR0Ah6xP0j16UQoxZcw-G_EbCRkhO_JcNLhjRT3FZNlRmWIKPkUcKjx0g8k

The new Tennis for America service year will place AmeriCorps VISTA members across the country to utilize their extensive tennis backgrounds and academic credentials to add significant value to the organizations that are making important progress fighting poverty and creating opportunity within thei...

06/11/2020

A Message from Civic:

Civic stands with the families of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and all black lives that have been taken by racial violence, including police brutality. It is important in this time to not only call out the racial injustice seen in the disturbing images of violence against Black and LatinX Americans, but also the institutional racism present in our education system that manifests in equity gaps for students of color and play a significant role in perpetuating a system of racial oppression.

We are taking this time to educate ourselves, listen, reflect, and act to advance racial equity and social justice in all our work. We wholeheartedly support all those peacefully protesting across our nation, seeking change for ourselves and future generations, and pushing America to finally fulfill its promise of equal opportunity for all. Black lives matter.

Signed,
The Civic Team

06/04/2020

The millions of young people forgotten amid pandemic response

"It is common for people to discount opportunity youth because some were recently homeless or involved in the juvenile justice or child welfare systems. But, as former domestic policy advisors to two presidents — one Democrat, one Republican — we work with many of them, side-by-side; recognize their potential, goals and contributions; and know a full recovery from this crisis will not occur without them."

Read Melody Barnes and John Bridgeland's op-ed: https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/501099-the-millions-of-young-people-forgotten-amid-pandemic-response

During the current health and economic crisis, Congress has an important opportunity to double down and help millions of "Opportunity Youth," most of whom have been forgotten.

05/14/2020

Letters2Grads

You may not be able to watch a special high school grad in your life toss their mortar board in the air or give them a hug, but you can still honor their accomplishments through #Letters2Grads. https://www.americaspromise.org/campaign/letters2grads

The 2020 graduation season in the time of COVID-19 looks a little bit different than years past. This year’s graduates will not cross a physical stage, hear from a commencement speaker, or toss their caps in the air with their peers. But the class of 2020, with the support of millions of caring ad...

05/08/2020

Opinion | We Need National Service. Now.

"The obvious imperative right now is to...expand national service programs to meet the urgencies of this moment." - David Brooks

Read the New York Times op-ed about the importance of national service the country's COVID response.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/opinion/national-service-americorps-coronavirus.html

The formative moment for a new generation.

04/08/2020

Opinion | The Right Way to Help Small Businesses

The first package of economic relief got it wrong. Here’s what the next one has to get right.

Read the POLITICO op.ed by John Bridgeland, Alan Khazei, and John Arensmeyer.

https://www.politico.com/news/agenda/2020/04/08/the-right-way-to-help-small-businesses-173813

The first package of economic relief got it wrong. Here’s what the next one has to get right.

04/01/2020

Opinion | Amid the coronavirus threat, where’s the call to service?

"In times of crisis, Americans expect our president to show empathy, to unite us and to ask us to help. Where idealism should be rooted, there is a hole at the heart of our nation’s coronavirus response."

Read John Bridgeland and Tim Shriver's call to service in the Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/31/amid-coronavirus-threat-wheres-call-service/

Even if the president doesn’t ask citizens to give, Americans can help each other during social distancing.

03/30/2020

COVID-19 Is Exposing the Gaps in Our Education System. Let's Start Fixing Them

In a new Education Week op-ed, John Bridgeland and Robert Balfanz write, "As COVID-19 spreads throughout America, urgent action is being taken at the federal, state, and local levels to support our health-care system and economy. But as schools shutter and millions of students attempt to learn from home or shelters, it is not too soon to think about what we can learn to strengthen our education system the next time there is a national crisis."
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/03/27/covid-19-is-exposing-the-gaps-in-our.html

Schools are missing the digital contact information for far too many families. That's suddenly an urgent problem, write researchers Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink.

03/13/2020

“While graduation rates continue to rise toward the nation’s 90% goal, these persistent achievement gaps threaten equal access to the American Dream, particularly for students of color, from low-income families, and who experience homelessness.” - John Bridgeland, Founder & CEO of Civic

See more responses to the U.S. Department of Education new graduation rate data: https://www.americaspromise.org/GradRate2018 #GradNation

03/13/2020

The U.S. Department of Education today released data showing the high school graduation rate for the class of 2018 hit a record high of 85.3%. While we celebrate this progress, the nation is still off track to reach our goal of 90%.

Read more about our response to today’s announcement here: https://www.americaspromise.org/GradRate2018 #GradNation

02/21/2020

Opinion | Here’s a cost-effective national service proposal that could bridge our deep divisions

Isabel Sawhill, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, and John Bridgeland propose a voluntary national service program to build bridges instead of walls, limiting toxic tribalism and social division.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/21/heres-cost-effective-national-service-proposal-that-could-bridge-our-deep-divisions/

It can build bridges instead of walls, limiting toxic tribalism.

01/29/2020

Public Schools Report Over 1.5 Million Homeless Children and Youth – All Time Record | SchoolHouse Connection

BREAKING: Federal education data released today by the National Center for Homeless Education show that public schools identified 1.5 million children and youth experiencing homelessness in the 2017-2018 school year – an 11% increase over the previous school year and the highest number ever recorded nationally. SchoolHouse Connection National Center for Homeless Education (NCHE)

Public Schools Report Over 1.5 Million Homeless Children and Youth – All Time Record Jan 29, 2020 | Guest Perspective, SHC Perspectives Federal education data released today by the National Center for Homeless Education (the U.S. Department of Education’s technical assistance center) show that p...

01/22/2020

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12/18/2019

Bridgeland, Weissberg & Atwell: Social-emotional learning can be an answer to America’s meltdown, and principals are getting on board | LA School Report

"Our cultural, social and political breakdown is fresh evidence that we need to do something different in the education and development of leaders."

Read John Bridgeland, Roger Weissberg, and Matthew Atwell's op-ed on #SEL. Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

http://laschoolreport.com/bridgeland-weissberg-atwell-social-emotional-learning-can-be-an-answer-to-americas-meltdown-and-principals-are-getting-on-board/

Our cultural, social and political breakdown is fresh evidence that we need to do something different in the education and development of leaders. Some call for more civic education, others bemoan the decline in participation in our religious and civic institutions, and still others reach for soluti...

12/06/2019

Column: To boost economic growth, support entrepreneurs

There is a hole at the center of our economic debate where hope should be. Read this op-ed co-authored by Victor Hwang from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and John Bridgeland to find out how America's New Business Plan from Start Us Up Now proposes to solve this problem.

Hiding in plain sight is a vast opportunity to unite our nation and grow our economy.

10/16/2019

The evidence is clear. It's time to make social and emotional learning a priority in the classroom. #SEL http://bit.ly/ReadtoLead2019

10/16/2019

NEW REPORT: Ready to Lead: A 2019 Update of Principals' Perspectives on How Social and Emotional Learning Can Prepare Children and Transform Schools for Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) with Hart Research Associates shows that principals are ready more than ever to bring #SEL to their schools. http://bit.ly/ReadtoLead2019

10/07/2019

A Challenge to America’s Businesses

READ: A Challenge to America’s Businesses, an op-ed by John Bridgeland

"Imagine if each company committed to address one public challenge, drawing on their comparative advantages to make a significant difference, over at least a decade."

"Imagine if each company committed to address one public challenge, drawing on their comparative advantages to make a significant difference, over at least a decade."

09/11/2019

National service can unite us again

READ: "National Service Can Unite Us Again"
On the anniversary of 9/11, John Bridgeland and Stephen Hadley publish an op-ed in The Hill about securing our nation's future.

We must learn from the past and prioritize what our nation needs to be more secure for what lies ahead.

08/29/2019

'A National Challenge': How We Can Change the Course for Homeless Students

'A National Challenge': How We Can Change the Course for Homeless Students - an EducationWeek op-ed by John B. King and John Bridgeland urging that homeless students' graduation rates should be a wake-up call to the nation.

Homeless students' graduation rates should be a wake-up call for us all, urge John King and John Bridgeland.

08/21/2019

America Needs to Dream Again - Thrive Global

READ: A Thrive Global op-ed by John Bridgeland about why politicians need to start tapping into the entrepreneurial spirit of the American people in order to truly inspire and make change.

Why politicians need to start tapping into the entrepreneurial spirit of the American people in order to truly inspire and make change