Civic engagement has been defined as "Individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern."^[1]

Contents 1 Forms 1.1 Activities 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Forms

Civic engagement can take many forms— from individual volunteerism to organizational involvement to electoral participation. It can include efforts to directly address an issue, work with others in a community to solve a problem or interact with the institutions of representative democracy.

"Youth civic engagement" has identical aims, only with consideration for youth ice.

[edit] Activities

In a study published by CIRCLE, the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts divided into 3 categories: civic, electoral, and political voice.^[2]

Measures of Civic Engagement[2]
Civic	Electoral	Political Voice
Community problem solving	Regular voting	Contacting officials
Regular volunteering for a non-electoral organization	Persuading others to vote	Contacting the print media
Active membership in a group or association	Displaying buttons, signs, stickers	Contacting the broadcast media
Participation in fund-raising run/walk/ride	Campaign contributions	Protesting
Other fund-raising for charity	Volunteering for candidate or political organizations	Email petitions
		Written petitions
		Boycotting
		Buycotting
		Canvassing

[edit] See also

• Community building
• Community development
• Civic courage
• Civic virtue
• Civics
• Civil society
• Service-learning
• Social capital
• Youth empowerment

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Center for Civic Engagement at University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
• Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship & Public Service, Tufts University
• Northumberland Civic Engagement
• Civic Engagement Center at Central Washington University
• WHYY Civic Engagement Project
• Penn Project for Civic Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
• The Center for Future Civic Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College.

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