Strategy 4 Dramatically Expand Civic Bridging Capacity
Create a Trust for Civic Infrastructure

Recommendation 4.1
Establish a Trust for Civic Infrastructure to scale up social, civic, and democratic infrastructure that supports bridging opportunities through a major nationwide investment campaign with private enterprise and philanthropy seed funding. This might later be sustained through annual appropriations from Congress on the model of the National Endowment for Democracy.
Featuring filming at The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and video of three civic infrastructure projects: Reimagining the Civic Commons in Memphis, TN; Reimagining the Civic Commons in Akron, OH; and Vitalyst Health Foundation in Phoenix, AZ.
D+
In 2017, the American Society for Civil Engineers gave the nation’s public parks a D+ grade.