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Community Engagement Trends for 2025

Social Pinpoint

Governments can foster trust by prioritizing inclusivity and demonstrating a commitment to addressing community needs through transparency, accountability, and ongoing dialogue. This includes offering financial compensation for participation, providing translation services, and holding events in more accessible locations or times.

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Connecting the dots between the customer experience and trust in government

Partnership for Public Service

Customer experience and trust Yet these positive experiences do not always translate to more trust. adults from Nov. 29 to Dec. adults from Nov. 29 to Dec. Our 2021 poll , for instance, shows that only 64% of those who report positive experiences with government trust it while 34% do not.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In Part 1 of this series, it was estimated that total closing costs for both buyer and seller accounted for at least 7 to 11 percent of the purchase price of a typical home, surpassing the average 6 to 7 percent down payment made by first-time homebuyers (FTHBs). This translates into considerable clout in Congress and state legislatures.

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The Value of Community Engagement?

zencity

Community engagement activities need to account for several key things, such as: Platform – Is there access to participation across a wide variety of platforms, such as digital engagement tools, in-person meetings, take-away/distributable surveys, and mobile ideation or feedback-gathering platforms?

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The power of the connecting middle: where policy, delivery and democracy meet (and often don’t)

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

And that would be a substantial deposit in the “strengthening democracy” account to rescue trust and confidence in democracy and the potential of good government done well. And just as much, innovations that emerge from the people and places who are “in the rules” are often not translated effectively into day-to-day practice.