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For nearly 30 years, the Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP) has been a tremendous resource to philanthropy, providing grantmakers with a vehicle for identifying trends, sharing new information and best practices, stimulating robust debate and strategy development and catalyzing new collaborations and joint funding projects.
FCCP brings together grantmakers who are committed to enhancing democratic involvement in all dimensions of civic life, including elections, governance, media and civil society, with a particular emphasis on disenfranchised and disempowered communities. FCCP’s mission is to educate its membership and the larger philanthropic community about barriers to full participation, strategies for fostering democratic involvement, and the means by which effective strategies can be supported through grantmaking.
FCCP was established in 1983 and is a recognized affinity group of the Council on Foundations. Currently, FCCP is made up of more than 60 institutional and individual funders who care deeply about civic participation and the future of our democracy.
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Thank you for visiting FCCP online! We are pleased to announce the launch of a highly-compatible, user-friendly, upgraded website in summer/fall ’08. In the meantime, we continue to update this website, which is best viewed using Internet Explorer.
-Tasha Amezcua, Program Assistant
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| 8/19/2008 | | Redistricting reform could help, with a push from Congress and the presidential candidates. | | | 8/1/2008 | | Today, Americans for Redistricting Reform (ARR), a national nonpartisan umbrella organization committed to raising public awareness of redistricting abuses and promoting solutions that benefit voters and strengthen our democracy, announced its formation and launched a new website: www.americansforredistrictingreform.org. | | | 7/29/2008 | | The Census Bureau's unhappy relationship with Harris Corp. is coming to a head as pressure mounts to significantly scale back the role played by the politically connected Florida contractor in the 2010 count. | | | 7/8/2008 | | Several of the campaign stances taken by Sen. Barack Obama suggest that the Illinois senator’s call for change seems to be directed at the nonprofit world as much as at government, writes Leslie Lenkowsky, a regular Chronicle columnist. | link to Chronicle of Philanthropy Article | | 6/16/2008 | | by: Jessica Pupovac, In These Times
Nine state legislatures are considering bills to require proof of citizenship for voter registration. Yet many citizens do not have passports or copies of their birth certificates. | | | 6/13/2008 | | Common Cause’s three-year campaign to bring a workable ethics enforcement plan to the US House of Representatives culminated on March 11, 2008 when the House voted to establish the first-ever independent Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to monitor and help enforce its own ethics rules. The creation of this panel marks the first time that non-lawmakers will have the opportunity to investigate and report on possible misconduct by elected representatives in Congress.
Check out the attachment for the full story. | | | 6/12/2008 | | SURPRISE, Ariz. -- A 97-year-old Surprise woman who has voted in the past 19 presidential elections said she finds herself a casualty in the voter ID battle. | link to article | | 6/9/2008 | | By Pamela M. Prah, Stateline.org Staff Writer
First it was the presidential primary calendar that state legislatures across the country upended to give their voters a greater say this year in choosing candidates. Now a few states are orchestrating an overhaul of the way voters select the U.S. president. | |
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