VOLUNTEERING
1. Ask everyone to volunteer and renew their volunteer commitments.

2. Adequately support organizational infrastructure for volunteer management and training in nonprots, government agencies, and businesses.

3. Continue to forge strong partnerships to address systemic needs in the advancement of volunteerism.

4. Support improvements to regional mobility as long average commute times depress the ability of volunteers to serve.

5. Support and connect to our statewide Hands On Network and local community volunteer centers. www.handsonnetwork.org/actioncenters/map/WA

6. Nominate your everyday heroes to receive one of ve annual Washington State Jefferson Awards for outstanding community service. Work to ensure diversity of those nominated and selected so that young people can have models that speak to them. www.seattlecityclub.org

7. Promote the strategic business advantages of robust employee community service programs.

NEIGHBORLINESS
1. Support opportunities to enhance “bonding social capital” —connections among people who share common interests or backgrounds—as well as “bridging social capital”—community connections across difference.

2. Support public programs to enrich neighborhoods through community gardens and farmers' markets, neighborhood councils and block watches, matching grants, pedestrian and bike links, and support for libraries and parks.

3. Continue strong cross–sector support for artists and arts and cultural events, especially those that derive from and promote neighborhoods.

4. Support programming that welcomes and orients newcomers to Seattle, especially young people coming to Seattle as their “first move” city.

5. Support programs that promote immigrant integration and civic participation for our growing percentage of foreign–born residents including consistent translation and interpretation services, English language classes and naturalization/ citizenship programs for legal permanent residents who are eligible.

6. Use new light rail as a way to highlight the personality of neighborhoods and connect them together in a welcoming vibrant region.

7. Encourage media and/or public arts agencies to mount a “share our arts” initiative to highlight arts activities of all scope and kind.

BELONGING TO GROUPS
1. Provide opportunities for lifelong civic learning, service, expression, and action to all community residents.

2.Teach civic skills in K–12 schools and in higher education.

3. Support programs of civic engagement and leadership development conducted by trusted organizations that reach into more difcult–to–serve communities such as foreign–born or other communities of color.

4. Expand service–learning opportunities within a culture that expects and rewards leadership development.

5. Provide civic mentorship for youth and young adults through robust connections to caring role models and community organizations.

6. Grow our region's leadership development programs, ensuring that they represent the diversity of our populace.

7. Maximize the civic asset available in our region's veteran population through programs that leverage their commitment and skills for community service.

PHILANTHROPY
1. Support greater Seattle's continuing role in transforming philanthropic practice through innovative strategies like pooled giving and venture philanthropy.

2. Support United Way campaigns and other community giving programs.

3. Recognize corporations in our region that are committing time, leadership, and money to support community activities.

4. Encourage all businesses in the region to establish social responsibility programs and to engage in corporate giving and employee matching programs.

5. Support volunteerism and advocacy as philanthropic strategies to move communities forward. This is especially critical within communities of color to ensure broad reach and representation.

6. Use The Seattle Foundation's website as a portal to investigate community needs, organizations, and giving.

POLITICAL VOICE
1. Maximize the availability of relevant and credible information to all community members and strengthen their capacity to engage with it across platforms.

2. Expand the availability of broadband and high–speed internet throughout the region.

3. Support Seattle's Race & Social Justice Initiative and other public measures to implement a citywide translation and interpretation policy and boost communication and outreach to immigrant and refugee communities.

4. Demand transparency in government processes and decision making.

5. Support organizations and initiatives that build citizen empowerment—especially for youth and communities of color, including foreign–born.

6. Support organizations and initiatives that build social capital and work against the erosion of public trust.

VOTING
1 Create new civic rituals that celebrate the communal act of choosing leaders and approving policy.

2. Address barriers to voter registration, including language and transportation.

3. Invest in voter registration and get–out–the vote strategies that specically target populations with low participation rates using methods appropriate to those communities, for example, language–specic phone banks, mailings, and ethnic media ads.

4. Use diverse communication means and marketing techniques, appropriate to our diverse community, to remind voters about the opportunity and procedure to vote.

5. Conduct voter registration at cultural festivals, libraries and community centers, social service and volunteer sites, schools and other community gathering places and events.

6. Invest in civics education for all youth and adults.

7. Welcome the activities of neighborhood–based political organizations that can stimulate voter registration and turnout at the grassroots level.

CONCLUDING RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Ensure that civic vitality is measured as a key indicator of our community's health in the Puget Sound Regional Council's regional DNA report, in The Seattle Foundation's Healthy Community Report, and in all other similar analyses of our community's comprehensive vitality.

2. Create messaging that integrates and recognizes all the ways we can serve our communities including volunteerism, philanthropy, and advocacy.

3. Celebrate our national leadership in citizen engagement. Success breeds success.

4. To learn more about educational disparities and strategic recommendations for their remediation, review The Seattle Foundation's Healthy Community Report . http://issuu.com/ seattlefoundation/docs/tsf_healthcom_web?mode=a_p. Support the Foundation's current initiative to bring Teach for America to Seattle in 2011. http://www.seattlefoundation.org/givingcenter/initiatives/Pages/TeachforAmerica.aspx

5. In whatever ways you engage in community, devote resources to supporting equity and excellence in public education.

6. Support experiential learning of civic skills and community service for youth.

7. Encourage philanthropy to increase its investment in civic education, civic capacity building, and leadership development.

8. Advocate for education reform and the urgency of adequate funding for public education and early–learning programming.

9. Support community initiatives to remediate inequities and support community service, including the City of Seattle's Race and Social Justice initiative and Mayoral Service Plan.