About: “This toolkit serves as a guide for science centers and museums and other science engagement organizations to thoughtfully identify and implement ways to nurture civic experiences like these across their work or deepen ongoing civic initiatives for meaningful change within their communities…
This toolkit outlines a Community Science Approach, Civic Engagement & Policymaking, where science and technology are factors in collective civic action and policy decisions to meet community goals. It includes:
- Guidance for your team on how to get started with this work,
- An overview of what Civic Engagement & Policymaking as a Community Science Approach can entail,
- Descriptions of four roles your organization can play to authentically engage with communities on civic priorities,
- Examples of real collaborations between science engagement organizations and their partners that advance community priorities,
- Tools, guides, and other resources to help you prepare for new civic engagement efforts and/or expand or deepen existing civic engagement efforts…(More)”.
