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The Civic Engagement Initiative (CEI), founded in 1997, is a collaborative project designed to increase residents' active involvement in issues that concern their lives. It builds a sense of ownership and inter-connectedness in communities and helps individuals realize that their participation matters.
Civic Engagement can take many forms, including volunteering, voting, community organizing, mentoring, running for public office, or dialogue. The CEI's primary civic engagement strategy is the use and promotion of public dialogue.
The CEI supports the Civic Engagement Network, which builds our community's capacity for initiating and sustaining civic engagement projects; and we develop and implement new models of public dialogue which can be disseminated throughout the county. We are dedicated to improving the effectiveness of public dialogue in San Mateo County in order to increase the diversity and intensity of residents' involvement in issues affecting them.
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