America's Civic Health Index 2008: Beyond the Vote

The National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) is the nation's leading advocate for civic participation and the only organization chartered by Congress to play that role. The NCoC created America's Civic Health Index to assess how the American people were performing on a wide array of indicators of civic health. Since America's Civic Health Index was first published in 2006, and featured in TIME Magazine, the NCoC has published annual reports to inform Americans about their civic attitudes and behaviors, the state of their civil society and democracy, and existing and emerging trends that can inform new policies and initiatives to strengthen civic life.