HRCCE Blog

Democracy is feeling pretty messy these days, and the Hampton Roads Center for Civic Engagement is trying to do something about it. On April 10th, HRCCE will hold its 2nd Annual Civic Engagement Summit. The theme this year is: “Searching for Citizenship” # The participants will talk about that and where citizens fit into problem-solving. [...]

by Bob Gibson Reversing the loss of an informed and involved electorate should be a top national and state priority if rights and freedoms born in Virginia more than two centuries ago are to be preserved as the necessary safeguards of our form of government… READ MORE: http://www.coopercenter.org/publications/sitefiles/vanl/vanl0809.pdf

Building a Better Citizen – How the government can make us better at self-government. By David Villano, Nov. 2, 2009    A very informative article showing examples of good civic engagement and the benefits reaped from communities that practice this initiative.  The article even features Hampton, VA as the lead success story.   Click here to [...]

By Rita Frankenberry The Virginian-Pilot Residents of the Acredale subdivision are trying to keep a business from intruding into their neighborhood. It’s a sign that Virginia Beach neighborhoods must get more organized in the next few years to maintain their communities, a civic league leader said. If they don’t, subdivisions could increasingly find businesses encroaching. [...]

The inaugural issue of “Civic Engagement“, a magazine that seeks to deepen the discourse about, and underscore our shared commitment to, public service, is now available online. Civic Engagement, a bi-monthly web-based magazine, will feature the exemplars of public service-people and projects-as well as publications, other resources for “doing” public service, and personal reflections. Civic [...]