CV: Community Visioning
Uniting Local Voices, Shaping Shared Futures
Communities across the U.S. are being asked to host major projects, lose anchoring industries, and provide their own recovery from increasingly severe storms. Whether it’s hurricanes or wildfires, energy developments or water diversions, life-changing policies are being made without local voices at the table.
CV flips that script.
We support rural and small communities in defining and advancing their own visions for their shared future.
Why now? Because people across the country want their voices back!
What is CV?: Community Visioning is a values-driven civic planning model that brings community members together to identify wants and needs, explore development opportunities and risks, and strategize pathways to sustainable futures grounded in local priorities.
about CV
Why now?
Because people across the country want their voices back! Across the country, people feel decisions are being made around them, not with them. From land use to energy to disaster recovery, communities are too often brought in after the fact, asked to react instead of shape outcomes. People want their voices back because they understand what’s at stake, and they want a real role in defining the future of the places they live.
What is CV?
Community Visioning is a values-driven civic planning model that brings community members together to identify wants and needs, explore development opportunities and risks, and strategize pathways to sustainable futures grounded in local priorities.
How does it work?
Using dialogue processes, hands-on training, and accessible planning tools, CDI supports communities in protecting culture, strengthening local infrastructure, building negotiation power, and ensuring their voices stay central in development decisions.
CV brings to communities the facilitation, resources, and connections so local voices can define future usage of their land, their economy, and their quality of life. This way, we bolster the democratic process together.
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What CV Offers
How it works: Using dialogue processes, hands-on training, and accessible planning tools, CDI supports communities in:
- Protecting culture
- Strengthening local infrastructure
- Building negotiation power
- Ensuring their voices stay central in development decisions
CV brings to communities the facilitation, resources, and connections so local voices can define future usage of their land, their economy, and their quality of life.
This way, we bolster the democratic process together.
View Our Ecosystem
See the real-world impact of our work in action. Our interactive ecosystem map highlights the communities, partnerships, and initiatives driving meaningful change at the intersection of climate and democracy. From local leadership efforts to broader systems-level progress, this map brings transparency to where and how we’re making a difference. Explore the stories, regions, and outcomes that show what’s possible when communities are empowered to shape their own climate future.
Is CV right for your community?
Contact us now to get started.
Is CV right for your community?
Contact us now to get started.
Invest in Climate Democracy
Your gift. Your community. A future that holds.
Climate change isn't only an environmental problem. It's a democracy problem. Often, decisions are made without local voices at the table. That results in lost trust, and the tools to develop a response go missing right when they are needed most.
The Climate Democracy Initiative rebuilds those tools. Your gift funds the training, programs, and partnerships that support intergenerational voices in rural and small communitites. Together, we support local voices shaping decisions that affect their own lives — from the classroom to the county commission.
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