Launching the “Defending Democracy: Lessons from Around the World” Program

***This blog was originally published on the Open Gov Hub blog 9/29/2017*** September 30, 2017 Nada Zohdy – Director, Open Gov Hub    Click here to view this one page program overview as a PDF American democratic values and norms are facing unprecedented threats, from deep polarization, to the erosion of public trust in institutions,…

Seeking Global Lessons For US Democracy

***This blog was originally published by OpenGov Hub July 26, 2017 *** Nada Zohdy, Manager, OpenGov Hub July 26, 2017 Some of the current challenges to American democracy are unprecedented, and require a collaborative and globally contextualized effort to fully understand risks and help prevent the erosion of foundational democratic norms and values. This is…

Catalytic collaboration – what it means for the OpenGov Hub

Scott Rumpsa, Director of Operations and Programs – February 15, 2017 Late last year, our colleague Nada Zohdy jointly published an article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, “Path-breaking organizations, working together in a new way, might just transform the nonprofit sector.”1 Nada runs the OpenGov Hub, a coworking space consisting of three dozen plus organizational…