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    <p class="rteleft">The Center for Collaborative Democracy is a non-profit, nonpartisan tax exempt 501 (c) 3 organization. CCD grew out of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, which for two decades has refereed political conflicts from local housing battles to worldwide environmental clashes.</p>
<p class="rteleft">CCD&rsquo;s mission is to develop innovative methods that will enable legislatures &mdash; from town councils to the U.S. Congress &mdash; to resolve their differences as constructively as possible, and thereby reach fair, sensible agreements on critical issues.</p>
<p class="rteleft">CCD&rsquo;s operational goals include:</p>
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    <li class="rteleft">Informing citizens and civic leaders across the country about how to produce more effective government in their hometowns;</li>
    <li class="rteleft">Helping those citizens and leaders implement reforms that will produce more collaborative local government;</li>
    <li class="rteleft">Monitoring the results and disseminating word about them.</li>
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<p class="rteleft">For more information about CCD, <a href="http://www.genuinerepresentation.org/" target="_blank">click here</a>.</p>  </div>

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