Communities Need to Build Better Millennial Connections

A remarkable, but mostly unnoticed, 2012 study found a powerful correlation between a community’s civic health and its economic well being. The analysis by the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) and its partners found that the density of non-profits whose purpose was to encourage their members’ participation within the community correlated strongly with the ability of a locality to withstand the effects of the Great Recession.

The same analysis revealed that those municipalities having the greatest amount of "social cohesion," defined as "interacting frequently with friends, family members, and neighbors," also showed greater resilience in ameliorating job losses during economic downturns, independent of the density of their non-profit sector.

by Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais

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