Please join LWV for our winter webinar. Our topic is “Improving Civic Health – And Why It Matters”.

Program Information: Civic health is the manner in which communities come together to define and address public problems. Whether the issue is affordable housing, decreased funding for schools, an aging population, failing infrastructure, or racial inequities, the problems are big, complicated and not easily solved.  

Speaker Information: Mary Beth Collins (JD, MA) is the Executive Director of the UW-Madison Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies. 

The UW-Madison Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies, along with a coalition of nonpartisan organizations, partnered with the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) to publish the inaugural report on civic health in Wisconsin in 2020. This served as a launch for the Civic Health of WI Initiative, a nonpartisan coalition. The Initiative continues to collect data, and the Second Civic Health of Wisconsin report is due for publication in early 2025.

Our program will cover key indicators of civic health, findings of the reports, and the most pressing challenges and opportunities at hand. Participants will explore strategies for improvement of civic health locally and across Wisconsin and share their own civic health experiences and insights.

Register at lwvlacrosse.org/program to receive your Zoom link for virtual attendance.

Contact us at lwvlawi@gmail.com with any questions.
We hope you can attend!