Civic Indicators Working Group and State Partners

Illinois 2009 Civic Health Index

November 18, 2009
CIVIC INDICATORS WORKING GROUP

JOHN BRIDGELAND, CEO, Civic Enterprises; Chairman, Board of Advisors, National Conference on Citizenship; and former Assistant to the President of the United States & Director, Domestic Policy Council & USA Freedom Corps

NELDA BROWN, Executive Director, National Service- Learning Partnership at the Academy for Educational Development

KRISTEN CAMBELL, Program Director, National Conference on Citizenship

MAYA ENISTA
, CEO, Mobilize.org

WILLIAM GALSTON
, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; former Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States for Domestic Policy

STEPHEN GOLDSMITH
, Daniel Paul Professor of Government, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Director, Innovations in American Government;
Chairman, Corporation for National & Community Service; and former Mayor of Indianapolis

ROBERT GRIMM, JR., Director of Research and Policy Development, Corporation for National and Community Service

LLOYD JOHNSTON
, Research Professor and Distinguished Research Scientist at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research; and Principal Investigator of the Monitoring the Future Study

KEI KAWASHIMA-GINSBERG
, Lead Researcher, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University

PETER LEVINE
, Director, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at
Tufts University

MARK HUGO LOPEZ
, Associate Director of the Pew Hispanic Center; Research Professor, University of Maryland’s School of Public Affairs

SEAN PARKER, Co-Founder and Chairman of Causes on Facebook/MySpace; Founding President of Facebook

ROBERT PUTNAM
, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Founder, Saguaro Seminar; author of Bowling Alone:
The Collapse and Revival of American Community

THOMAS SANDER
, Executive Director, the Saguaro Seminar, Harvard University

DAVID B. SMITH
, Executive Director, National Conference on Citizenship; Founder and Chairman, Mobilize.org

HEATHER SMITH
, Executive Director, Rock the Vote

MAX STIER
, Executive Director, Partnership for Public Service

MICHAEL WEISER, Chairman, National Conference on Citizenship

JONATHAN ZAFF, Vice President for Research, America’s Promise Alliance

STATE PARTNERS

CALIFORNIA: ZABRAE VALENTINE, California Forward and PETE PETERSON, Common Sense California.

FLORIDA: DOUGLAS DOBSON, Florida Joint Center for Citizenship, Lou Frey Institute of Politics and Government at University of Central Florida, and Bob Graham Center for Public Service at the University of Florida

ILLINOIS: SHAWN HEALY
, McCormick Freedom Project and BARBARA FERRARA, University of Illinois-Springfield

MINNESOTA: HARRY BOYTE and NAN SKELTON, Center for Democracy and Citizenship, Augsburg College

NEW HAMPSHIRE: MICHELE DILLON and MICA STARK, Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire

OHIO: KATHLEEN KNIGHT ABOWITZ, CLYDE BROWN, and ANNIE MILLER, Miami University, Hamilton

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