Join the Democracy & Diplomacy Community

Join here.  When you join, make sure to enter “DDC Member” in the Note box, or “Anonymous DDC Member” if you do not wish to be recognized as a DDC member.

Rising authoritarianism, polarization, disinformation, inequality, not to mention economic insecurity, environmental pollution, and climate change pose serious threats to life on Earth. What is one to do?  It’s easy to feel overwhelmed or powerless given how large, intertwined and complex our world is.  But there are things we can do. We can network, learn and act together. We can invest in democracy and diplomacy, because the problems we face demand not demagogues and strongmen, but rather citizens and diplomats.

Building on the 30,000+ people worldwide connected with our work, Learning Life’s Democracy & Diplomacy Community (DDC) encompasses our three programs: the DMV Democracy Community, Family Diplomacy Initiative, and Citizen Diplomacy International.  The DDC accordingly offers diverse learning and networking opportunities, the ability to share your work and knowledge, and to advance democracy and diplomacy at local to global levels in innovative ways.  More specifically, DDC members receive:

1. Access to DDC online events, like our Citizen Diplomacy International quarterly meetings, and Family Diplomacy Initiative dialogues and socials.

2. For those in the Washington DC region of the USA, invitations to our in-person DDC events in metro Washington DC, including free access to one of our Democracy Dinners and two tickets to the DMV Democracy Festival. 

3. For qualified university students: priority eligibility for Learning Life internships.

4. Opportunities to promote your own, or your organization’s democracy or citizen diplomacy articles, books, reports, initiatives, and events.

5. The chance to engage yourself, your family, students, members, or constituents in international citizen diplomacy as Family Diplomats or Family Diplomacy Ambassadors.

6. Access to Learning Life’s growing online database of citizen diplomacy organizations, scholars, journalists, articles, reports, books, podcasts and videos worldwide.

7. Subscription to Learning Life’s email quarterly Citizen Diplomacy Bulletin, monthly Family Diplomacy Dispatch, and/or DMV Democracy Dispatch.    

8. Opportunities to sponsor the DDC, or one of Learning Life’s three programs that the DDC encompasses (i.e., sponsor the DMV Democracy Community, Family Diplomacy Initiative, or Citizen Diplomacy International) when you give $250 or more, or your organization gives $1,000 or more.

Membership Dues

One-year (twelve months from date of payment) DDC memberships are:

  1. $75 for families, including parents, grandparents and children
  2. $50 for individuals who are employed part-time or full-time 
  3. $30 for students, retirees, and the unemployed. 

Two-year DDC memberships are:

  1. $140 for families, including parents, grandparents and children
  2. $90 for individuals who are employed part-time or full-time 
  3. $55 for students, retirees, and the unemployed. 

Bulk membership discounts are available to organizations and institutions interested in providing the learning and networking benefits of the DDC to their members.  Contact us at email@learninglife.info for details.

If you decide to join us, please join with this DDC credo in mind:

I join the DDC because our divided and distracted world needs connection rather than fear, caring rather than threats, collaboration more than competition, learning more than distraction, signia more than trivia, citizens as much as consumers, diplomats rather than demagogues.  Through the DDC, I pledge to connect, learn, and collaborate to help advance democracy and diplomacy for a more caring world. 

Join here.  When you join, make sure to enter “DDC Member” in the Note box, or “Anonymous DDC Member” if you do not wish to be recognized as a DDC member.