Experience a full week of online Common Ground for Action (CGA) deliberative forums exclusively for college students. The forum series aims to connect college students from across the country in deliberation in a way that maximizes the opportunity for students to hear different views and opinions from peers living and attending college in different parts of the nation.

During the National Week of Conversation in June, National Issues Forums (NIF) launched its national initiative on encouraging and safeguarding voting with opportunities for people from across the country to participate in online National Issues Forums on the issue. NIF practitioners moderated the forums and provided opportunities for participants to delve more deeply into the issue in multiple breakout discussions.
 

Available to download now - Two new issue discussion guides about responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 and Vaccines: How Should We Keep Communities Safe?, and School Interrupted: How Should We Teach in a Pandemic? Each issue discussion guide topic has companion materials available that include a moderators' guide and PowerPoint slides that may be useful for online forums.

The Kettering Foundation has released a new report (in a short and a longer version) that describes outcomes of forums held between 1982 and 2020 on the topics of jobs and the economy.