Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) launched the Civic Language Perceptions Project in November 2021 to understand Americans’ perceptions and associations of terms commonly used in democracy and civic engagement work. In March 2022, PACE released data from a nationally representative sample of 5000 registered American voters, and over the last six months, they led a broad effort that invited many people and organizations to dig into the data with them, including through deep dive sessions, focus groups, mini-papers, mini-grants, infographics, and more. With all of this analysis collected, PACE now turns to making sense of what they learned about civic language; the findings in the data were rich and plentiful.
On October 19th from 12-1pm PT, join PACE for Making Sense of Our Civic Language: Provocations from PACE’s Civic Language Perceptions Project. In this webinar, PACE will release America + Civic Language, a synthesis of their most compelling insights about civic language, and share the major findings, including:
The assumptions we hear about civic language that the data affirm. Teaser: Civic education makes a difference.
The assumptions we hear about civic language that the data challenge or complicate. Teaser: Words are not necessarily “owned” by certain people or groups.
Findings about civic language that the civic field needs to face.Teaser: "Civic" as a descriptor is not landing.