Demonstrate your commitment to civic engagement, leadership, and democratic values by earning CCS digital badges. These badges showcase your skills, enhancing your civic and professional profile, and are recognized by employers, colleges, community groups, and your network.
And the best part? Open digital badges are portable credentials you can share by displaying on resumes, applications, and other social media.
Start your civic journey by earning your first two/three badges that build your civic understanding, skills, and leadership. Click on each badge to get started!
After you earn your Democracy Champion milestone badge, check out the Civics Credentialing System’s catalog to find other opportunities that match your passions and goals. Civics Credentials features badges across five core areas of democracy.
Understand our democratic institutions and processes, and the civic responsibilities that help assure the freedoms and liberties we cherish
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Learn how to help mitigate polarization and strengthen collaborative processes by using important and powerful bridging skills.
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Promote fair, inclusive, transparent and responsive governance based upon safe, fair and lawful electoral processes.
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Learn how to evaluate news sources promote high quality and verifiable information; and discourage the spread of misinformation.
Actively contribute to your community through civic action that extends beyond voting to everyday life.
You can earn single badges or stack them to achieve bigger milestones!
Ready to start your civic journey?
Earn your first badge now! and continue from there to earn your Democracy Champion milestone badge.
Then you can continue your journey by browsing the Civics Credential Catalog.
