WELLSTONE ACTION

http://www.wellstone.org/




The Journal of Neuroscience

http://www.jneurosci.org/


Military Religious Freedom Foundation

http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/


LINKS   -   ENLACES

Celinda Lake


http://www.lakeresearch.com/



Drew Westen

Political psychologist, consutant
(Author of The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation)

http://www.westenstrategies.com/
http://www.thepoliticalbrain.com/videos.php


SPIN Academy


http://spinacademy.org/resources/




Joel Silberman


http://www.democracypartners.com/?q=partners/joel-silberman



Anat Shenker-Osorio

 
http://www.asocommunications.com/html/



Learn about the Congressional Messenger Program

(a cooperative effort coordinated by Progressive Congress)

http://www.progressivecongress.org/#communicationstrategy


FM3 Research


http://www.fm3research.com/ourteam/David_Metz

TOOLS TO HELP VISUALIZE CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE



Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper


http://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/flood-exposure


​Sea Level Rise Viewer


​http://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/slr


Coastal Inundation Mapping  (training)


​http://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/training/inundationmap


C-CAP Land Cover Atlas


http://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/lca




ALSO LOOK FOR POSSIBLY EFFECTIVE VISUALIZATION TOOLS ON OTHER WEBSITES LIKE THE ONES FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE UNITED NATIONS.



ASIDE FROM STRATEGIC MORALLY GROUNDED COMM., HERE'RE A FEW LINKS TO IMPORTANT FACTS ON CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE


They show that the GOP's anti-science, anti-scientist position is untennable (as well as dishonest) and may have to change at some point

when enough corporations and rural interests (in the GOP base) speak out

Scott Wittkopf

Scott, who worked with George Lakoff in 2013, heads the Wisconsin-based AF2 (Authentic Framing), a political communication consulting firm.

He co-founded the Forward Institute and served as its chair and research director. 

Forward Institute was Wisconsin’s first independent think tank committed to connecting critical public policy research and effective messaging methods based on cognitive and neural science.

George Lakoff in “The All New Don’t Think of an Elephant” (2014):  “To my knowledge, there is now only one think tank devoted to the overall framing of issues from both a policy perspective and a communicative perspective – the Forward Institute in Wisconsin." 

http://www.frame4future.com/


At it’s core, My Brother’s Keeper is an example of a bold, broad initiative working toward a robust inclusive prosperity touching the lives of every American family and community, and not just the lives of a lucky few individuals.  It helps expand economic opportunity for some of the Americans that need it the most.


https://www.whitehouse.gov/my-brothers-keeper

Through My Brother’s Keeper, community leaders around the country are taking steps to help some of our most vulnerable citizens escape hardship and injustice, and discover an opportunity to get ahead.  And at the same time, Congressional Republicans, while rhetorically trying to address inequality, continue to push the same old policies that we know in reality only increase it.  My Brother’s Keeper is an initiative launched by the White House in conjunction with cities, towns, businesses and foundations to address opportunity gaps faced by young men of color.  “The fundamental idea behind this initiative,” Attorney General Holder said today, “is that every child in America should have the opportunity to grow, to succeed, and to contribute to their community and their country.”  My Brother’s Keeper cuts across a diverse and complex set of of issues: education, poverty, health, the criminal justice system, racial bias, and more.

 


Is this article about the key value of empathy in our children something to worry about for the future, or not?


On Parenting
Think you’re raising kind kids? Think again.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2014/08/11/think-youre-raising-kind-kids-think-again/


RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY ON VALUES,
COMPASSION, EMPATHY, CARE, AND KINDNESS

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The Opportunity Agenda

https://opportunityagenda.org/




FORWARD INSTITUTE Wisconsin














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The FrameWorks Institute 

Events Calendar (FrameWorks)


 Here's FrameWorks on important policy issues

A Beginner's Guide to Strategic Frame Analysis (framing) from FrameWorks


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GOP message guru's DC-based consulting company:

http://www.luntzglobal.com

Here're some of Luntz' memos:

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/frank-luntz-the-language-of-healthcare-20091.pdf?mobile=nc

http://www.ewg.org/project/luntz-memo-environment

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/01/frank-luntz-pens-memo-to_n_444332.html


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FrameNet Project























The FrameNet lexical database contains around 1,200 semantic frames, 13,000 lexical units (a pairing of a word with a meaning, for example) and over 190,000 example sentences.

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Spanish-language FrameNet



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FAITH GROUPS & NON-FAITH GROUPS

HELPING BROADEN

AN OVERLY NARROW MEANING OF MORALITY


In Virginia: Social Action Linking Together (SALT) - http://www.s-a-l-t.org


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NETWORK - A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby - Nuns on the Bus: Nuns Drive for Faith, Family & Fairness - Sister Simone Campbell is the Executive Director of NETWORK

http://www.networklobby.org

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FAITHFUL AMERICA
We are all in this together. Our faith compels us to act. End poverty. Restore community. Uphold the common good.  
http://www.faithfulamerica.org


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Interfaith Alliance  (Protecting faith and freedom) (MISSION: RESPECT  PROTECT  UNITE) - 
www.interfaithalliance.org


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Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations - 
http://www.uua.org


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UUCA (Arlington, VA) (Standing on the side of love) - 
http://www.uucava.org



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NC Forward Together Moral Monday Movement Channel / Rev. William Barber II, PhD

https://www.youtube.com/user/RevBarber


Rev. Barber's events are available on a website by Eric Preston (Fusion Films):


http://new.livestream.com/accounts/5188266


Forward Together: A Moral Message for the Nation (Book)
by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Barbara Zelter

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/forward-together-william-j-barber-ii/1119681438?ean=9780827244948


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Rev. William Barber heads the NC NAACP

http://www.naacpnc.org/


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The Charter for Compassion is the result of Karen Armstrong's 2008 TED Prize wish and made possible by the generous support of the Fetzer Institute.  The Charter of Compassion

is a cooperative effort to restore not only compassionate thinking but, more importantly, compassionate action to the center of religious, moral and political life.

http://charterforcompassion.org/


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PUBLIC WORKS - Building Public Will for the Common Good

http://www.publicworks.org/


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Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI)

Publishes a valuable American Values Atlas (AVA)

a powerful new online tool for understanding the complex demographic, political, and religious changes occurring in the United States


http://publicreligion.org/


Imagine!  
What if every year for Dem benchmarking, party leaders found out the top Virginian-held VALUES instead of the top ISSUES?. 
We could identify Virginia's top-priority moral values.







Center for American ProgressReligion and Values



https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/religion/view/







​​Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University

http://cultureofempathy.com/

http://cultureofempathy.com/References/Links.htm

http://cultureofempathy.com/References/Organizations/index.htm


Links to other organizations here:

http://www.networklobby.org/about-us/partners

Election 2012: Catholics Vote for the Common Good project - 
www.commongood2012.org

Interfaith faithful budget alternative to the House Ryan budget - 
www.faithfulbudget.org

Character Education Partnership

https://character.org/





SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE



Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal


(Official journal of the Cognitive Science Society) 


http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/journal_csj.html

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences   


(Published by ELSEVIER)


http://www.journals.elsevier.com/trends-in-cognitive-sciences/


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Cognitive Sciences   


(Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.)


https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1672

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Journal of Cognitive Science


(Official journal of the International Association for Cognitive Science)


http://j-cs.org/index/index.php

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VALUES       MATTER

Strategic Morally Grounded Communication

Training & RESEARCH