Learn how the City of Austin, U.S. is working with people experiencing homelessness to ensure that public services like storage, health, and job placement respond to the needs of those who need them most.

Join us May 21 for this special launch of a new report that outlines how to get there: Seize the Moment: A Revived US Open Government Partnership Process with the new Biden Administration.

The nation and the world breathed a giant sigh of relief as Joe Biden assumed the Presidency declaring “Democracy has prevailed.” Despite months of disinformation, culminating in the dangerous attempted coup, America weathered attacks on its most sacred foundation: the ballot box. 

La nación y todo el mundo respiraron con alivio cuando Joe Biden asumió la presidencia, declarando que “la democracia prevaleció”. A pesar de los meses en los que imperó la desinformación y que terminaron con intento de golpe de Estado, Estados Unidos sobrevivió a los ataques a su fundamento más sagrado: las urnas electorales.

To save democracy at home, and build a stronger global coalition of democractic allies, the financing for authoritarianism must be made ever harder. Only a strong, diverse coalition of countries and civil society champions, with renewed US engagement, can achieve that goal.

Para salvar a la democracia en casa y establecer una coalición global de aliados en la democracia, deberá limitarse al máximo el financiamiento al autoritarismo. Ese objetivo se podrá lograr solamente a través de una coalición diversa de países y líderes de la sociedad civil con un liderazgo renovado por parte de Estados Unidos.

For 14 consecutive years, civil and political liberties have declined globally and 2020 was no exception. Authoritarian leaders have been on the rise and civic space has been closing, with the COVID-19 pandemic sadly fuelling further opportunistic attacks on civil…