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Alabama Center for Civic Life

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Contact: Ray Minor

Ray Minor is the president of the Alabama Center for Civic Life (ACCL), a nonprofit-nonpartisan organization established to conduct research and training on citizenship, democracy, governance and democratic practices. The ACCL is located in Birmingham, Alabama. He is an experienced convener and moderator of deliberative public forums focusing on issues of local and national importance, and has assisted the Charles F. Kettering Foundation with their research work into what makes a democracy work the way it should.

Minor has also served as the vice president for institutional advancement at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas; as the executive director of national and community service in the governor's office in Montgomery, Alabama; as the Alabama area development director for The College Fund/UNCF in Birmingham, Alabama; and as the director of development for Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama.

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Alabama Center for Civic Life (ACCL), a nonprofit-nonpartisan organization established to conduct research and training on citizenship, democracy, governance and democratic practices.

Listening to Rural Alabama is a descriptive account of deliberative forums held in Alabama in conjunction with the Southern Growth Policy Board (SGPB). Annually, SGPB starts a conversation in the South on a particular issue related to economic development. For 2005, Alabama Governor Bob Riley, as SGPB chair, selected rural development as the theme for the annual report and meeting. The report, “The 2005 Report on the Future of the South: The New Architecture of Rural Prosperity,” was presented at the Summit on the Rural South, held June 12-14, 2005, in Point Clear, Alabama

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