Since early 2025, the CommNS has been collaborating with UW-Extension Ashland County on a project titled The New North: Integrating Newcomers and Communities In Northern Wisconsin for Civic Health and Sustainable Rural Futures. Funded by an …
Year: 2026
Building Bridges: The CommNS and Civil Society Capacity-Building in Timor-Leste
How a year-long partnership nurtured connection and exchange, and contributed to capacity-building efforts for civil society organizations and future leaders in one of the world’s youngest democracies A Partnership Across Continents Imagine running a nonprofit …
Meeting the Moment: Defining Civic Health in Wisconsin
A new article by CommNS Executive Director Mary Beth Collins will appear in the March issue of the WISCONSIN COUNTIES ASSOCIATION.
Faith-Based Organizations as Community Anchors: Key Insights from the 2/19/26 CommUniversity Session Panel
Last week, The CommNS kicked off our Spring Semester 2026 CommUniversity sessions with a panel discussion on Faith-Based Organizations as community anchor points, which often offer support to communities which go well beyond worship, and …
By the People and For the People: An Urgent Call to Democratize the Future of AI
The recent, inevitable explosion of the presence of artificial intelligence (“AI”) in our lives has invoked concern and excitement across communities, institutions, and enterprises. The abrupt integration – in just a couple of years – of an entirely new level of technological power most of us don’t really understand is unnerving and yet, already an accepted part of our daily life.