"Title","Summary","Body","Annual Budget","Country","Executive Director","Fulltime Staff","Part-time Staff","Volunteer Count"
"Center for Communication and Civic Engagement","","DefinitionThe Center for Communication and Civic Engagement (CCCE) is a Seattle, WA-based organization whose mission is to understand “communication processes and media technologies that facilitate positive citizen involvement in politics and social life...","","United States","Lance Bennett ","","",""
"Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University (CNS-ASU)","CNS-ASU is an NSF-funded research center which explores the societal aspects of nanotechnologies and seeks to build capacity for anticipatory governance.","Mission and PurposeThe guiding conceptual goals of CNS-ASU are two-fold: to increase reflexivity within the nanotechnology enterprise and to increase society’s capacity to engage in anticipatory governance of nanotechnology and other emerging...","","United States","David Guston","","",""
"Community-Campus Partnerships for Health","Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a nonprofit organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and academic institutions. We view health broadly as physical, mental, environmental, social and spiritual well-being and emphasize partnership approaches to health that focus on changing the conditions and environments in which people live, work and play.  Our strategic goals are to:

* Leverage the knowledge, wisdom and experience in communities and in academic institutions to solve pressing health, social, environmental and economic challenges
* Ensure that community-driven social change is central to the work of community-academic partnerships
* Build the capacity of communities and academic institutions to engage each other in partnerships that balance power, share resources, and work towards systems change

Our members – a diverse group of over 2,000 individuals and organizations affiliated with colleges and universities, community-based organizations, health care delivery systems, student service organizations, foundations and government – are advancing these goals in their work on a daily basis through service-learning, community-based participatory research and other community-academic partnerships.   What ties us together is our commitment to social justice and our passion for the power of partnerships to transform communities and institutions.

By mobilizing knowledge, providing training and technical assistance, conducting research, building coalitions and advocating for supportive policies, CCPH helps to ensure that the reality of community engagement and partnership matches the rhetoric.
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"Eudemocracia","Develop a Direct Democracy system through Internet; being implemented by small wired communities. We believe Web 2.0 has created the perfect environment where to nurse and nourish an Open, Direct Democracy, capable of finding its own place inside the current Representative system or even replacing it!","The Evolution of DemocracyEudemocracy (εὖ an ancient Greek word meaning: “true”, “better”, “good”, “happy”) is an open and direct democracy system that takes advantage of the new Information and Communication Technology to turn current representative...","","Argentina","","","",""
"Heinz Nixdorf Stiftung","The Heinz Nixdorf Stiftung is an independent, non-profit, foundation funded by the wealth derived from the stock Heinz Nixdorf held in the Nixdorf Computer AG before his death. The Heinz Nixdorf Stiftung and its sister foundation Stiftung Westfalen are among the bigger private foundations in Germany, according to their website.","Mission and PurposeThe foundation aims to enhance each persons conscious awareness as well as achievement potential by supporting individual development of each person with the goal of personal well-being and the accomplishment of a unified society...","","Germany","Martin Nixdorf","","",""
"Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus)","RiAus supports scientific debate in response to local issues for Australia and challenges facing the globe. RiAus has several aims, one of which is to engage the public, decision-makers and opinion-leaders in dialogue and policy debate around science. ","Mission and PurposeTo 'bring science to people and people to science’.Our vision is that science is recognised as pivotal in everyday life. RiAus will make science accessible for Australians, the Asia-Pacific Region and the rest of the world.We will...","","Australia","","","",""
"Shoreline Master Program Update (Kitsap County)","In 1971, the people of the State of Washington voted for the Shoreline Management Act (SMA). This ultimately created three primary purposes: 1) To protect ecological functions; 2) To accommodate appropriate uses; and 3) To maintain public access. The Shoreline Master Program (SMP) implements the policies of the SMA at the local level by regulating use and development along shorelines. The Department of Ecology is responsible for ensuring that the local SMP is consistent with the intent of the SMA, and has final approval authority.  As part of a comprehensive update to the SMP of Kitsap County, a task-force of citizens with shoreline-related interests were to be selected to work with County staff to develop goals, policies, and to assist in recommending regulations on SMP issues that need to be updated.  The Kitsap County Board of Commissioners authorized the development of an SMP task-force and was funded to assist until June 30, 2011 or longer should sufficient resources be available. On March 8, 2010, the task-force plan was adopted and 20 volunteer citizens were selected by the Kitsap County Board of Commissioners, signed by then Chairperson Josh Brown and Commissioner Steve Bauer.  The members of the task-force were then charged with the responsibility to recommend new policy, regulations, and environmental designations, as deemed necessary by the SMP update. To do so, they were instructed to utilize all existing information including the shoreline inventory and characterization, become familiar with the established work plan and focus on specific topics from that work plan, work cooperatively with Kitsap County staff, and review draft shoreline regulations that were to be guided by the Shoreline Management Act major policy goals. The final task-force meeting took place on January 24, 2012, whereby the most current SMP recommendation was voted upon and submitted to the Department of Ecology for further approval.","Mission and PurposeShoreline Master Programs are local land use policies and regulations designed to manage shoreline use. These local programs protect natural resources for future generations, provide public access to public waters and shores, and plan...","","United States","","","","20"
"Tasmania Together","Tasmania Together is a community action plan that was developed by a broad group of citizens in conjunction with the Tasmanian government in order to promote long-term social, economic, and environmental goals of the Australian state. The project calls for heavy community involvement and feedback about issues that are most relevant and important to the Tasmanian community. The plan currently includes 12 goals and 155 benchmarks indicating the most important community issues expressed in deliberative discussions in 2000, 2005, and 2011.[1] These goals and benchmarks are monitored and reported on by a Progress Board, consisting of nine members (although legislation was passed by Parliament in 2012 to repeal the employment of the Progress Board, and instead use government agencies to report progress in an effort to reduce state funding to the plan). The plan also requires the Progress Board to issue reviews and recommendations for any addition, alteration, or deletion of current goals or benchmarks in order to ensure the plan is operating at maximum potential and securing a prosperous future for the Tasmanian community.","MissonTasmania Together is a community action plan that was developed by a broad group of citizens in conjunction with the Tasmanian government in order to promote long-term social, economic, and environmental goals of the Australian state. The project...","$500,000-$1 million","Australia","Bob Campbell (Chair)","9","",""
"The de Borda Institute","The de Borda Institute is an international NGO which promotes inclusive forms of decision-making, especially in conflict zones.

[A]    In decision-making, we advocate the Modified Borda Count, (MBC), whereby contentious decisions are always based on a preferential vote, and wherein the outcome is the option with the highest average preference;

[B]    In elections, the appropriate methodology is the Quota Borda System, (QBS), which is both proportional and preferential; and

[C]    In governance, we suggest the matrix vote, the only voting procedure so far devised by which a parliament may elect a power-sharing all-party government of national unity such that, individually, each minister is the best one for that job, while collectively, this coalition represents all factions in the parliament in fair and due proportion.","Mission and PurposeTo promote inclusive politics.HistoryThe de Borda Institute was established in 1997, but by that time, we had been advocating the three Borda methodologies since 1986.Specializations and activitiesVoting systems in both decision-making...","<£5,000","United Kingdom","Peter Emerson","1","1","10"
"The Freerz Community","The Freerz Community is an online community think-tank aimed at supporting worthy causes of real-world entities. We act as a force multiplier for organizations who are pursuing the same goals one can read in the Freerz Manifesto. Basically these are encouraging dialogue between religions, combatting poverty, propsing direct democracy and the use of open source software, developing an international capacity to effectively respond to disasters, etc.  ","Mission and Purpose(We strongly advise to read the Freerz Manifesto first, in order to understand the core principles We believe in. http://freerz.org)Many netizens are feel Themselves much more comfortable and free while being on-line, than in Their...","","United States","","","",""
"Wikivote","Wikivote is a Moscow based Russian company, set up in 2010 and specializing in building online platforms and facilitating civil participation in law-making and strategic documents drafting. The Wikivote methodology uses the wiki principle of community participation. Technically the Wikivote methodology is implemented on a generic Intelligent Collaboration System.","Mission and Purpose Wikivote is a Russian non-governmental organization which goal is to develop effective means of citizens’ participation in lawmaking and strategic planning. Our approach is based on attracting the open network community to...","","Russia","Vasiliy Burov","15","",""
"World Wide Views on Global Warming overview and analysis ","The following entry on the World Wide Views on Global Warming organization takes a closer look at the history, purpose, participant selection process, the deliberation process, and analysis and criticisms of the global conference held in more than 38 countries spanning over 6 continents with more than 4,000 citizens representing countries around the world. ","  World Wide Views on Global WarmingBy: Jose Batista and Mark ManioDEFINITIONThe World Wide View on Global Warming is a project that sheds light onto the importance of politicians getting involved with citizens in order to make deliberative decisions...","","United States","","","",""
"wer denkt was GmbH"," „wer denkt was“ führt gemeinsam mit Kommunen Partizipationsverfahren bei Haushalts- und Stadtplanung durch.","Schwerpunkte und AktivitätenDie ""wer denkt was GmbH"" ist eine Ausgründung der Technischen Universität Darmstadt, die aus einem Forschungsprojekt zu internetgestützter Bürgerbeteiligung hervorgegangen ist. Wir führen internetbasierte und...","","Deutschland","Dr. Tobias Klug, Dr. Robert Lokaiczyk","","",""