Bringing reinforcements and scale to the work of reducing extreme political polarization, and searching for lasting, peaceful breakthroughs in political conflict.
A non-partisan civics organization, Constructive Citizen is following a vision to serve, on behalf of citizens, as a hub and focal point for making sure our political problems never stand a chance against what we can muster together to turn them around.
By catalyzing inspired and concerned citizens, media, business, practitioners and researchers, to look at escalating political polarization, the crises of truth and longtime unchecked bias, and tepid progress on entrenched societal problems, and practitioners to thought leaders to researches to natural trends, we’re asking, how’s the counter effort going?
that there may well be polices, and top down methods. but that the seeds may well be in what we all know, how we behave towards each other, ideas, thoughts, perspectives, knowledge, and how we act, at scale. that we must find, teste develop those ideas, and spread them
Our plan is to raise an army of reporters, analysts, connect with professionals, experts and practitioners to identify what else is needed, and to catalyze, incubate and launch it.
As an organization, we will seek to grow three parts:
- MEDIA: a full blown media site keeping people informed and educated on progress, what they can do, and to spur conversation on new ideas.
- DIGITAL AGENCY: A marketing and public awareness campaign monster agency to kill it in the public sphere and compete with the crap
- IDEA INCUBATOR: a hub for ideas, analyses, interacting with researchers, giving them what they need, highlighting, analyze missing pieces
Complimenting and supplementing what’s out there, we want to represent the citizen – assisting, serving as watchdog, helping scale, bring marketing and promotion, media and more. Non-partisan. We can’t have this suffer from lack of coordination, lack of resources, lack of synergy. With epxert participation, keen reporting, best in class, we want to never look back and say we didn’t do absolutely everything. We absolutely must solve it. make sure we never look back saying we didn’t try hard enough.
Here’s what we think is needed. If you agree – click to the right to donate now. Or to get involved – we need everything, from experts to accountants.
Media/education hub
As a basic focal point, and a hub for discovery, we need to launch a full scale media site
- report on progress, see what’s being done, interesting research, new releases, news
- learn how to get involved, reviews and analysis of opportunities
- analysis, ideas, hypotheses for solutions, what you can do
- topical 1-sheets, summaries of the state of research, how-to-fix, bias, how to get your loved ones back, etc., conspiracy theories, understanding right vs left
- different ways into the problem: political theories, basics of psychology and stuff
- how to be a warrior for peace – this time, with teeth in it, and nobody gets pissed off.
Public awareness/influence campaigns
- startup kit for how you can spread the word on critical events, organizations and ideas
- funding marketing
- digital creative shop, creative testing
- sponsoring art, events
- data-driven, effectiveness measuring, awareness and opinion monitoring
- fundraising for specific campaigns of ours
Idea generation and incubation
- crowdsource ideas
- hypotheses, questions for researchers
- fundraising for research
- vision quest
- Finding suitable home
- Launching our own
- crowdsourcing hypotheses
Example ideas
- psychotherapist way in
- it’s about truth – values are relative
- framework is, it’s about what’s best for everyone, not about your feelings or experience
- bargains, calculations
- Scale: are there more hypotheses needing funding?
- Synergy: is there enough crosstalk and collab between practitioners, research, business, etc.
- how close we are: how about nuanced policies?
Our governing principles
- data, truth, expertise
- be bold
- diversity, inclusion, equity
- non-partisanship
- don’t be perfect, but be precise, honest and good
- end goal: fairness, thriving, safe society
To hear more about our ideas, our launch, and how you can get involved, follow us on email or social. To reach us directly, email us at [email protected].
Together, we will change the world. We’ve come such a long way in human history, in the experiment of democracy, and we have such technology and new knowledge — the time is now.