The Democracy House Project

The Democracy House Project (DHP) is an educational initiative that endeavors to teach political literacy to individuals, community groups, and businesses in order to recreate and rejuvenate democracy and citizenship one person, one household, and one community at a time. DHP believes that no one can be called free without his or her participation in political processes and sharing in public power through meaningful engagement as a citizen. Such public engagement; however, to be significant and successful requires political literacy. The main mission of Democracy House Project is threefold: to teach political literacy; to seek to create venues for citizen engagement; and to host public dialogues of significant public policy issues.

The Utah Democracy Project, in association with the Democracy House Project, will be seeking opportunities, over the span of the federal grant, to teach political literacy in as many venues and to as many citizens as possible.

> Read more about the details of The Democracy House Project here

Democracy Week

As a part of the Democracy House Project, the Utah Democracy Project will sponsor yearly "Democracy Week" where special emphasis will be placed on holding events and activities for people to build more genuine democratic communities.  These activies include public readings from the Declaration of Independence; the Preamble to the Constitution along with the Bill of Rights, followed by a public discussion, Public Forum's, training for student moderators for discussion, and door-to-door distribution of non-partisan voter-education tools.

> See the schedule for events for democracy week