1: Challenges

Identify and address the challenges to making democracy work as it should.

Other Information:

The foundation seeks to identify and address the challenges to making democracy work as it should through interrelated program areas that focus on citizens, communities, and institutions. Democratic Practices -- Kettering research has identified democratic practices that have everyday applications in the life of a community, and they are democratic in that they increase the control that people have over their future. Democratic practices are ways citizens can work together -- even when they disagree -- to solve shared problems. This involves doing familiar things in slightly different ways:

Stakeholder(s):

• Citizens


• Communities


• Institutions

Objective(s):

1.1: Naming

1.2: Framing

1.3: Decision Making

1.4: Resources

1.5: Action

1.6: Learning

Content