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AbstractThe National Civic League provides a framework for optimal use of the Civic Index; however, the index can be adapted to fulfill the needs of specific communities, programs, and other entities. Each community must decide which approach is most appropriate to its particular needs. The Civic Index process typically has three stages: the initiating stage, the stakeholder stage, and the implementation stage. Understanding the stages of the process can help communities use the Civic Index to assess their own civic infrastructures.

AbstractThe Civic Index provides a method and a process for identifying community strengths and weaknesses and then structuring collaborative solutions to problems. It offers communities a means of undertaking a self‐evaluation of their civic infrastructures. Creating civic infrastructure is not an end in itself. Rather, it is a community's first step toward building its capacity to deal with critical issues. Citizens can use the Civic Index to analyze their community's civic infrastructure by asking a series of questions about the community. During the initial steps of a stakeholder process, citizens can assess their community's components and later come to agreement on the desired condition of the twelve components of the new Civic Index.

AbstractCivic activists are breaking new ground on a wide variety of public concerns—everything from political reform to the need to bridge the racial gaps in our communities. From the community‐based work of the National Civic League and the Study Circles Resource Center come four examples of cutting‐edge approaches to problem‐solving efforts at the local level.