News & Features
May 19- Hamline University, ranked the top Minnesota university in its class by U.S.News and World Report, to confer John Bridgeland with honorary degree. Bridgeland to give commencement address at graduate school ceremony.
May 15- Bridgeland speaks at Closing Plenary at City Year’s National Leadership Summit in Washington D.C. The Summit convened national and local leaders to discuss the unique and targeted role national service can play in helping to turn around low-performing schools.
April 25- Grad Nation Webinar- The Alliance for Excellent Education held an in-depth discussion with Robert Balfanz of the Everyone Graduates Center and John Bridgeland on the data and research presented in the 2012 report, Building a Grad Nation.
April 9- Leaders of the service community gathered for a very special event-- the 86th birthday of Senator Harris Wofford, a Civic Enterprises Policy Council member. >>Read More
March 31- April 8: Vice Chairman of Malaria No More, John Bridgeland, travels with Neville Isdell, the former CEO and Chairman of Coca-Cola, and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson to Zambia and Zimbabwe to look at cross-border malaria solutions. See Gerson’s April 5 piece.
March 18-21- The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report was released Monday, March 19 in conjunction with the Building a Grad Nation Summit held in Washington D.C. >> Learn more
March 19- AmericanGraduate.org Re-Launches With New Research Resource, Video and Community Connections. >> Learn more
March 19- AT&T relaunches Aspire program with quarter-billion dollar commitment to education. >> Read more
March 15-17- John Bridgeland co-chairs the Social Entrepreneurship Conference (SECon) 2012 where social entrepreneurs converged and advanced ideas. >>Learn more
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Education
In 2010, a coalition of leading institutions adopted as part of the Grad Nation campaign the Civic Marshall Plan to end the dropout epidemic and reach the national goal of having 90 % of U.S. students graduate from high school and obtain at least one year of postsecondary schooling or training by 2020.
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Mobility
Civic Enterprises, in partnership with Opportunity Nation and Hart Research Associates, is working on a research effort to marshal low-income Americans’ voices on the challenges of fulfilling the promise of economic opportunity and mobility in the United States.
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Global Affairs
To coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the Peace Corps Act, Civic Enterprises released the first large-scale, independent, nationally representative survey of the more than 200,000 Peace Corps volunteers who have served since 1961 to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the Peace Corps Act.
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Environment
Civic Enterprises works with the National Parks Conservation Association, the National Parks Service, and the Department of Interior to insure that the greatest national resources in America are available for all. Civic Enterprises will play a key role at the Summit on National Parks: Taking Action for a New Century, in Washington, D.C. on January 24-26, 2012.
Healthcare
Civic Enterprises is working for The Heritage Foundation to develop a defined long term Medicare reform strategy and health proposals to tie together the health and entitlement LFA teams, working closely with the Director for the Center for Health Policy studies and the Director of the Roe Institute.
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