This growing initiative has spread across the nation and beyond as an awareness campaign to promote civility and peace among citizens. It encourages everyone to treat others as they wish to be treated.

1. Community Civility Counts
“Treating Others as You Wish to be Treated”
TOGETHER WE WIN!
A Community Initiative by the Gary, Indiana Chamber of Commerce
and Partner, The Northwest Indiana Times
Charles “Chuck” Hughes MPA – Executive Director
Dr. Gordon E. Bradshaw – Chairman - Public Policy Committee
#civilitycounts

3. Community Civility Counts
Co-Founders
Dr. Gordon E. Bradshaw
Public Policy Chairman
and
Charles “Chuck” Hughes
Chamber of Commerce
Executive Director

4. Chuck Hughes and Dr.
Bradshaw Presenting the
Community Civility Counts
Initiative to U.N. Ambassador
Dr. Clyde Rivers of iChange
Nations and Golden Rule
International at the Gerald R.
Ford Presidential Museum -
Grand Rapids, Michigan in
August 2015

5. Community Civility Counts
Resolution adopted by the
Lake County Indiana Council
and the Lake County,
Indiana Board of
Commissioners
in July 2015

6. The Community Civility Counts
Team, The Times Editorial Staff
and Resolution Sponsor - State
Senator Lonnie Randolph -
Attorney at Law.
The CCC Initiative Logo now
hangs in the State Legislature in
Indiana as of Jan. 26, 2016

7. The Indiana State
Senate passing Senate
Resolution #6 with a
unanimous vote on
Tuesday January 26,
2016.

8. The Community Civility
Counts Team at the
Indiana State Legislature
with State Senator Ed
Charbonneau and
Northwest Indiana Times
Newspaper Editor Bob
Heisse.
The Northwest Indiana
Times is a partner in the
initiative.
Cheryl Scott-Fields and
Beverly Harbour sport the
CCC T-Shirts.

9. Community Civility
Counts Team with
State Senator
Earlene Rogers,
winner of the First
State of Indiana
Legislature’s Civility
Award for 2016

10. As of February 2, 2016 the
State of Indiana House of
Representatives approved a
House Resolution in support of
the Community Civility Counts
Initiative making the entire
State of Indiana Legislation
supporters of CCC.

11. A few of our Partners, Supporters and Participants in the Community
Civility Counts Initiative…
• The Times Media Group of Northwest Indiana
• The City of Gary, Indiana Common Council
• Hammond, Indiana City Council
• The Lake County Indiana Council
• Edgewater Behavioral Health Systems
• Indiana State Senate & House of Representatives
• Valparaiso School System
• Gary Community School Corporation
• Boeing International
• Allendale County Transformers – S. Carolina
• Whiting-Riverdale Chamber of Commerce
• Majestic Star Casino
• The State of Indiana Legislative Black Caucus
• P.O.P. on Teen Violence
• Lake County Indiana Board of Commissioners
• Omega ProVision – North Carolina
• Community Empowerment Ministries S. Carolina
• Pierogi Fest
• Lighthouse Charter Schools
• Kingdom Congressional Int’l Alliance (KCIA)
• The Brinson Institute
• GEMS Network-3M Project Global Initiative
• Hobart, Indiana Public Schools
• Judah Lionz Ministries, Minn., MN
• Lakeshore Public Television
• Black Lives Matter – Bronx, NY
• The Vantage Point Group - Mississippi
• iChange Nations
• Boys & Girls Clubs of NW Indiana
• Southland Ministerial Health Network (IL)
• NBC TV Channel 5 Chicago
• VivaLanka.com Sri Lanka
• Gary Crusader Newspaper
• Methodist Hospitals
• Gary, Indiana Fire Department

12. Please Visit…
NWI.COM/CivilityCounts
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