
Ahead of our program “Stand in the place where we live” we’ve looked high and low for people who stand up and make things happen where we live right here in Tallahassee. Meet your nominees.
Unflinching brave, often-arrested, Patricia and CORE’s
unsung foot soldiers changed America — and changed our hometown.
We’re looking for ideas that help create a dynamic, social civic connectedness – where residents from all backgrounds exchange ideas and engage with neighbors.
At a time when the social fabric in American civic life is fraying, this Big Bold project gathered Amazing People from across the country who are deeply devoting to Weaving The People back together.
We’re looking for law enforcement officers and people of color who’d like to participate in this project. Learn more and find an application link below.
Our self-evaluation of Local Color
“We shall learn to live together as brothers and sisters or we will perish together as fools. The choice is ours: chaos or community.” –Martin Luther King Jr.
Must see Village Square TV: Village Square board chair Jack Romberg speaks with Gary Yordon of WCTV’s The Usual Suspects about the intersection of morality and politics (December 16, 2017). Watch by clicking here.
Our experience welcoming our conservative neighbors into vibrant dialogue (and new friendships)
Reigniting America’s Civic Ecosystem – at Universities and Beyond
Help us imagine – and create – a Tallahassee where in good times and bad, we gather across race, creed and ideology. Divergent opinion welcome.
Eat lunch. Get swag.
Were there a Village Square 101 mandatory prerequisite to citizenship, we think Dr. Jonathan Haidt is the professor.
We invite you to find out why we’re such fans.
Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole:
A Citizen’s Election Season Survival Guide
Only baseball reflects, at various moments in American history, our country’s situation, our emotions of the moment, and best of all, provides inspiring stories at the times in which we most need them.
Back in the day, we might have called our goal “statesmanship.” Once elected, leaders were expected to serve all citizens – whether they had voted for them or not – while working with political foes to govern.
We call our mission both
impossible and mandatory.
Thus, the pig. Catch up on all things pig here.
The hostile tone of our national debate is a predictable result of the worrisome reality that we’ve essentially formed tribes. We’ll all grow old waiting for Washington to fix it, so we’re going to have to get it done ourselves.