About
Civic Life is a new nonprofit civil society organization whose founding team is led by David Blankenhorn.
Vision
An America in which large and growing majorities of citizens are equipped with the character, competence, and desire to sustain the American experiment in ordered liberty.
Goal
To help launch a social movement to strengthen republican citizenship in its time testing.
Strategy
To build a community of learning and action, linked to a bipartisan public argument, culminating in national mobilizations, announcing the birth of a social movement.
Community Strategy
Convene a network of civil society organizations to sponsor citizenship seminars for their members combining classroom-style learning with direct civic activity.
Public Argument Strategy
Build a subscriber-based media network featuring diverse thinkers and leaders focusing on the renewal of citizenship in an era of affective polarization, weakening civil society, a fraying moral canopy, and mutually reinforcing illiberalism from the left and right.
Mobilization Strategy
Organize a founding convention of leaders and citizens in 2030 centering on the release of "A Call to Citizenship" signed over the previous five years by one million persons and many civil society organizations.
Social Movement Strategy
The signatories to “A Call to Citizenship” are the movement’s founding members and the 2030 founding convention is the venue for publicly declaring the movement’s existence, purpose, and future agenda.
In short, for the initiative’s first five years:
Grassroots Education (learning joined to action)
enacted by a
Civic Network (many organizations)
charged by
Civic Media (hub and catalyst)
builds a
Founding Convention (driven by one million petition signatories)
to launch a
Social Movement
We welcome and need – our country needs – your help. Please subscribe to Civic Life.
