NCoC is committed to using our website as a resource for the civic sector—one that presents research, facilitates discussion, and proposes solutions to community challenges.

To support this ongoing objective, we’ve made a number of website enhancements. Here’s a look at what’s new:

• Streamlined organization of information: As our programs and focus are expanding, we wanted to make sure information is presented in an easy to navigate way. We’ve organized this in a few ways: by program, strategic approach, and focus area.

Information on our programs, including the Annual Conference, Civic Health Index, and Civic100 are now organized in their individual sections.

Along the top, you’ll fine the elements of our strategic approach to civic engagement: Research, Discussion, and Solutions. We believe each of these phases represent a critical step in developing community strategies.

Down the side of the navigation, you’ll see our primary focus areas: civic learning, corporate citizenship, online engagement, political involvement, social capital, and giving and volunteering. We believe each of these areas is critical to building a civically engaged citizenry. In category, you can see associated research, discussion, and solutions. This is meant to help explain and animate that focus area, as well as facilitate the process of moving from research to discussion and solutions within it.

• Submission of Solutions: Have a success story or strategy of how to achieve change in your community? We’ll soon be launching a feature for you to submit you own solutions for us to highlight. Until then, email us to let us know.

• Thumbs up: We’ve upgraded your ability to give the “thumbs up” to content with the official “Facebook Like” feature.

• Jobs board: NCoC and our partners are often seeking to fill a variety of positions, so we’ve created a space to highlight those as we learn of them. We’ve also incorporated RSS feeds of civic and nonprofit sector jobs from our friends at Idealist.org and Common Good Careers.

• Event calendar: One of the most valuable activities in the civic space is the opportunity to meet, network, and learn from our peers. NCoC.net has created a section to highlight convenings hosted by NCoC and our partners. Here, we post an upcoming event schedule, and our staff will share reflections on events we’ve attended.

• Glossary: Let us be clear, we want to use less jargon. We’ve created this glossary of terms and will begin associating definitions with our articles and discussions.

As always, you can find news and media releases , archived video from our Conference and programs, reports and partner publications.

Also, NCoC.net account users can set preferences and receive customized homepage content based on their interests. To take advantage of this feature, sign in here.