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OUR PROJECTS Communities Empowering Youth, Organizational Capacity Building Grant Helping organizations to build capacity through program development, leadership development, organizational development and community engagement Center For Civic Participation & Leadership (CCPL) Group discussions on public policy & community development Institute for Educational Leadership & Evaluation (IELE) Independent Program Evaluation and Research Kids Voting South Dakota (KVSD) K-12 educational program teaching citizenship with active lesson plans and voting on election day South Dakota Issues Forums (SDIF) Public deliberation on policy issues Institute for South Dakota Leadership & Participation (SDLP) State independent think tank for local and public policy South Dakota Public Policy Institute (SDPPI) Training on deliberative democracy and issue framing Safe Kids Project (SKP) An initiative to eliminate abuse and violence in a child’s environment Rapid City Character Counts Coalition (CC) Help build the character of the next generation ...one child...one teenager...one parent...one teacher...one coach...one person at a time.