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I look forward to beginning 2025 with our first stakeholder meeting of the new year. The January 14th, 2025, meeting will feature Tammy Palacios with New Lines Instituteand Cindy Black withFix Democracy First.
Tammy Palacios is a Senior Analyst leading the Priority Sustainable Counterterrorism portfolio at the New Lines Institute and 2023-2024 Research Fellow with the Modern War Institute at West Point. Palacios previously served as Program Head for the Nonstate Actors program at the institute, where she worked in the field of violent and nonviolent nonstate actors. Tammy hosts short-term working groups and publishes and briefs U.S. and international policymakers on localization policy, integrating security and development, and positive prevention. Continue reading.
Presentation overview:The Priority Sustainable Counterterrorism portfolio at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy in Washington D.C. engages local actors, practitioners, and policymakers around the world on sustainable counterterrorism policies and programs. The portfolio looks forward to presenting the Priority Sustainable CT approach and model at the next TRUST Network stakeholders meeting. This presentation will also serve as an introduction to and invitation to participate in the "State-level Prevention" project.
Cindy Black has been the Executive Director of Fix Democracy First since 2016. She was also the Campaign Director for WAmend’s successful statewide 2016 ballot Initiative 735 campaign, making Washington the 18th State to call for a U.S. Constitutional amendment to end court decisions like Citizens United. She is active with several state and national coalitions, addressing voting access, money in elections, alternative voting systems, and increasing civic participation. Cindy is committed to helping pass pro-democracy legislation locally and nationally, as well as building an active citizen’s movement through ongoing coalition building, common sense reforms, and increasing civic engagement.
Fix Democracy First is focused on achieving fair elections and government policies that reflect the will of the people, not the power of money. FDF works on reforms intended to strengthen democracy in Washington State and nationally, including campaign finance reform, public funding of elections, ranked choice voting, reversing Citizens United, expanding voting access, and increasing civic participation.
Their focus is on reforms intended to strengthen democracy in Washington State and nationally, which include campaign finance reform, public funding of elections, ranked-choice voting, reversing Citizens United, expanding voting access, and increasing civic participation.
Fix Democracy First Education Fund offers ongoing civic programming and education, including weekly Democracy Happy Hour, film screenings, book events, and panel discussions free to the public. Continue reading.
The Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) is proud to participate in the National Threat Evaluation and Reporting (NTER) Program's quarterly webinar!
This engaging roundtable discussion will focus on practical solutions for addressing immediate safety needs, considerations for public communication, strategies to honor those affected, and approaches to fostering community resilience.
Join NTER for Beyond After-Action Reports: A Roundtable on Navigating Post-Incident Recovery on Wednesday, January 8, 2025 from 12-1:30p.m. ET.
New Resource: National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate
In December, the White House released the first-ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate. The Strategy was developed through a whole-of-government collaboration with a broad range of civil society partners to describe and address the bias, discrimination, and threats Muslim and Arab Americans have long faced. In December 2022, when President Biden established an interagency group to increase and better coordinate efforts to counter Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and related forms of bias and discrimination, work began on this Strategy. In 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration released the first-ever National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism and announced the development of the first-ever National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate. The Strategy contains more than 100 Executive Branch Actions and more than 100 Calls to Action to every sector of society to prevent and address such violent attacks and to ensure that Muslim and Arab Americans enjoy the liberties and opportunities that are the bedrock of our country. This resource may be helpful in your initiatives to build greater unity by recognizing our common humanity, affirming our shared values and history, and embracing equal justice, liberty, and security for all.
National Days of Dialogue 2025
At a time of heightened division, Urban Rural Action is excited to once again partner with organizations nationwide on the National Days of Dialogue, a free annual opportunity for all Americans to converse across differences. For '25, the in-person and virtual events span January 5-18. Feel free to register for an event yourself at the link above and/or share the opportunity with colleagues and friends.
Questions? Contact Logan Grubb, NDOD Program Manager.
Mini-Grant Opportunity on Community Leadership
The upcoming JAMS Foundation/NAFCM mini-grant focus is community leadership. Cultivating leaders who can listen and learn and hold potentially transformative conversations regarding issues of public interest and concern is essential for good governance. The need to embed Conflict Resolution Skills within the modus operandi of elected officials and other community leaders is key to productive engagement and community safety. This grant opportunity is for two years and will award $15,000 per year. A meeting to find out more will be held on January 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM ET.
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Join the TRUST Network. Just by being a conscious, thoughtful observer of your local conditions, you make important contributions to the early warning/early action system as a Community Monitor. Then, together with your local colleagues and with the support of the TRUST Network, you can take positive action.Learn more HERE.
Leaders of organizations in positive peace actions, violence prevention, deradicalization, crisis data mapping, bridgebuilding, peacebuilding, social/racial justice, democracy, governance, media, and messaging -- we are here to melt the silos and offer you valuable collaboration. Please let us know if you're interested in joining the conversation by emailing us at info@thetrustnetwork.net.
Donate. We believe we can prevent escalation into violent conflict by building a national community cohesion and security infrastructure for the US, including an early warning/early action system. Help us achieve this bydonating HERE.
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