Rebuilding Our Nation, Remaking Our Lives . The Institute initiates a collaborative project to involve citizens in public dialogue and seeks funding from the California Council for the Humanities. Monthly seminars with activists who are reading draft chapters help to shape the book. With support from the California Council for the Humanities, the Institute develops workshops on the concept of 'living democracy' and presents them at several conferences. The Institute launches its Learning Center with the distribution of its first catalog and a support outreach effort begins.
Public presentations continue to receive strongly positive feedback.
The Co-founders locate just the right site for the Institute's continued development in southern Vermont. Preparation of the site gets underway. The staff grows to four paid positions and the number of volunteers increases. Work continues on the new site in Vermont and the Co-fuondrers and one staff member relocate to Vermont in June. The organization's name changes to the Center for Living Democracy to better describe the mission.