Applications are now being accepted (deadline is November 30, 2020) from individuals who are interested in being considered to receive a Taylor L. Willingham Legacy Fund grant. Grants are provided to individuals to enable them to develop an understanding of deliberative democracy and launch one or more deliberative dialogues in their communities and organizations in order to advance NIFI's overall mission, which is to promote public deliberation about national issues.

A September 29, 2020 article in the Harrisonburg Citizen by Katelyn Waltemyer and Kara Dillard describes some past and upcoming online forums that use an online deliberation platform called Common Ground for Action (CGA) that helps people deliberate about approaches to difficult and sometimes contentious public issues.

With the People is designed as an ongoing initiative that encourages sustained practices of public deliberation on campuses and in communities across the country.

With the People is an initiative of the National Issues Forums Institute and a dynamic and growing network of national, state, and local partners:

Join us to kick of NIFI's With The People Initiative for a week of Common Ground for Action (CGA) online deliberative forums specifically for college students. Students from a variety of campuses across the nation will get a chance to deliberate online together one a series of pressing, wicked issues: