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Hello, Friends-
It’s a tough time. A lot of people are hurting or feeling unsafe.
For many folks, hope in these turbulent times seems like a stretch.
At Civity, we are finding hope in YOU.
The response to this summer’s segment about Civity on the PBS NewsHour has been overwhelming. The night the episode ran, we got a rush of more than 200 emails from people across the country – time-zone-by-time-zone as they watched the NewsHour live – thanking us for our work, sending donations, asking “what can I do?” And telling us about what they are already doing in their neighborhood, their workplace, their community.
The messages are still coming in.
The day Civity started, we were given a front-row seat. Every day, we hear from or talk to one, or two, or more people who are reaching out to connect with Civity because our vision and what we do is resonating with them. We’ve been privileged to spend the last ten years with people telling and showing us “this is what I can do.”
And often we are blessed to be able to support them, encourage them, and walk alongside them – as they do it.
Those people are YOU. Every time you take a moment to really SEE someone and HEAR someone, that makes a difference. Every time you connect with someone you might have thought of as “other,” that makes a difference. Every time you show someone else that they MATTER, that makes a difference.
YOU are making a difference.
And this inspires us.
We are extremely busy these days.
We are continuing to challenge the prevailing story that division is inevitable – take a look at Palma’s fun-but-serious piece: Seven Ways to Slice and Dice the Us-vs-Them Bogeyman.
As profiled on PBS, our project with the Association of Leadership Programs (ALP) and the National Leadership Network kicked off this summer with Leadership Rhode Island in Providence. We then traveled to Fort Worth, TX for the ALP national conference – read more in Lucy’s article.
We completed our report on housing in California – Civity Stories: Going to the “Heart” of NIMBY Resistance to Affordable Housing – and we are excited to see many of you at our webinar on October 6! We also invite you to an online “Taste of Civity” sponsored by Welcoming America on September 30!
Finally, we are pleased to announce that – thanks to requests from so many of you – we are offering training workshops that are open to the public! Check out our offerings now (we’re limiting attendance to maximize the interactive experience) and see what works for you.
Thank you for the hope and the inspiration. We can do this … together.
Best wishes to all,
Malka
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