For now, just a few notes and links to places concerned with Citizen Participation.
I am very proud of the West Medford Community Coalition and Medford’s Neighborhood Resources.
From the Seattle Neighborhood Matching Fund Program as quoted in a reportfound at Toolkit Citizen Participation
“…people lost the sense that citizenship is public work producing things of lasting importance.”
Toolkit Partnership: a growing group of civil society (NGO) and local government organisations from all over the world, working together to promote participatory local governance.
Recommended by Louise Dix of Medford’s Neighborhood Resources… http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/: A Guide to Building Community / Charles Dobson / Vancouver Citizen’s Committee.