Join Us for Deliberation Day

Monday, February 19, 2018

Five Back-to-Back Online Forums about Immigration




Online Forums Using the Common Ground for Action Platform
 

Moderators and conveners around the country are planning and holding public deliberative forums about the issue of immigration to help kick off the 2018 A Public Voice forum series. At least 40 forums are already being scheduled, and more are in the works. 

A notable feature of this year's forums, Deliberation Day, scheduled for Monday, February 19th, will include five, back-to-back Common Ground for Action online forums.

You are invited to choose a time that works best for you and participate in one of the online forums on February 19th. And you can help by sharing this invitation and the registration links below with your friends, family, and communities. All forums will use the brand-new  Coming to America: Who Should We Welcome, What Should We Do? issue framework.


DELIBERATION DAY 2018: MONDAY, FEB. 19 (PRESIDENTS' DAY)

Click on a link to register:



If You're Planning to Hold a Forum - FREE Materials Offer

For a limited time, the National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI) is offering complimentary sets of 20 Coming to America issue guides and questionnaires to conveners holding forums before April 1, 2018. Click here or contact   Darla Minnich at  dminnich@nifi.org to sign up to receive your free materials.

Please let us know about your forums. When you've scheduled your forum (either before or after April 1, 2018), please let us know about it by  posting your information on the NIFI web site in the  Events section. You must log in to submit an event; or send your forum details (contact name and email address, date, time, location, city, state, zip code) to  Patty Dineen at dineenp@msn.com. 

Watch a Webinar about Moderating Coming to America Forums

On January 30, 2018, Kara Dillard presented a one-hour webinar about convening and moderating forums using the new National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI) issue guide titled,  

The webinar, Moderating the Coming to America Deliberative Forums, was recorded and has been archived. Click here to watch the webinar.


 About Deliberation in National Issues Forums

National Issues Forums issue guides are designed to stimulate public deliberation, which is a way of making decisions together that is different from discussion or debate.  The purpose of deliberative forums is to inform collective action.  As citizens, we have to make decisions together before we can act together, whether with other citizens or through legislative bodies.  Acting together is essential for addressing problems that can't be solved by one group of people or one institution.  These problems have more than one cause and therefore have to be met by a number of mutually reinforcing initiatives with broad public participation. 
About the National Issues Forums Institute

The National Issues Forums Institute's mission is to promote the use of public deliberation in schools, colleges, civic organizations, and religious institutions in the United States.  The institute's members are volunteers drawn from leaders in government, colleges and universities, libraries, civic organizations, the media, and medicine.  For more information visit  www.nifi.org .
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