#ListenFirst Coalition Offerings

#ListenFirst Coalition partners collectively offer hundreds of bridging opportunities, skills, and resources. See them all below, where partners are featured alphabetically within their primary intervention strategy: Engage, Expose, Educate, or Elevate.

Engage with one another—especially across difference

Alluvial Collective

Jackson, Mississippi

The Alluvial Collective works to end inequity based on difference by cultivating belonging and wholeness in the world.

  • Primary Audience: General

To help people be in conversation with one another in an accessible, productive way.

  • Primary Audience: Adults in the U.S.

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American Pals

Berkeley, California

Help young Americans get to know their own country and fellow citizens better.

  • Primary Audience: High School & Middle School Students

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American Public Square

Kansas City, Missouri

To convene non-like-minded people to improve the tone and quality of civil discourse to create paths toward actionable common ground.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: 2 states

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Aristotle’s Cafe

Raleigh, North Carolina

To improve community, state, and national discourse with our unique approach to Facilitation, questions, communication, and empathy.

Arizona Town Hall

Phoenix, Arizona

Arizona Town Hall educates, engages, connects, and empowers people to resolve important issues through consensus, not division, using a process based on respectful dialogue that values diverse perspectives, builds relationships, and fosters leadership development.

  • Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: 1 State

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At the Table Colorado

Castle Rock, Colorado

Convene forums, designed to elevate civic conversation, foster new relationships and inspire collaborative action across Colorado.

Authentic Agility Games, LLC

Ponte Vedra, Florida

To Create Conversation and Connection in our schools, communities, and families.

BreakBread World

New York, New York

The BreakBread mission is to grow a global community dedicated to reweaving our common humanity over active and inspired conversation while sharing in the intimate act of breaking bread together. Our dream is a world where deep listening and inquiry, intentional community and friendship, and full body/mind nourishment trumps the compulsion to obsess over social media, junk news and the marketplace.

Breaking Bread

Washington, DC

Breaking Bread shines a light on divergent people coming together across their disagreements to foster the mutual recognition, respect, and understanding necessary to engage others, learn about opposing viewpoints, and make a positive impact in our community on pressing matters.

  • Primary Audience: Divergent Communities

  • Geographic Footprint: 3 states

Bridges supports organizations and communities to build vibrant spaces of belonging – spaces where we celebrate our complex identities, explore our differences productively, and build resilient relationships between groups.

Bridges of Peace

Springfield, Oregon

The Mission of Bridges of Peace is to educate and support individuals, organizations, and communities to become empowered to fulfill their greatest potential through mindful action, dialogue, and collaboration.

Bridge USA

San Francisco, California

We’re investing in the future of democracy by developing the next generation of engaged and constructive citizens.

  • Primary Audience: College Students

  • Geographic Footprint: 19 states (35 colleges)

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Build Up

San Francisco, California

Build Up is a global non-profit working beside local organizations to identify and address emergent challenges to peace through interventions, research and training that combine peacebuilding best practices, participatory methodologies and digital technologies. We convene a community of practice at the Build Peace conference.

Building Bipartisan Bonds

Denver, Colorado

Building Bipartisan Bonds is an ambitious bipartisan effort to bridge the schisms in our society from the bottom up. The marketplace of ideas and the health of our community increasingly require that we disagree without being disagreeable. Building Bipartisan Bonds believes that bringing our community together around a table through discourse is the best way to bring our country together. It is our hope that these efforts will be copied, scaled, and implemented elsewhere. We’re here to engage in conversation, dialogue, and discussion with others who might be outside the bounds of our usual ideological groups. Sessions will be carefully planned to create the most productive, informative, and enjoyable bipartisan time as possible.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: 2 states

  • Offerings:

    • Small-group dialogue based on active listening and emphathy-building

      • Individuals, Online or In-Person, Facilitated

Building Reconciliation Inclusion Diversity and Gender Equity is creating a more just, equitable, and inclusive world through advancing "Human Together" and the practice of reconciliation.

CCEJ is dedicated to eliminating bias, bigotry, and racism through education, dialogue, and conflict resolution.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: Southern California

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Care Lab

Washington, D.C.

Bringing people and ideas together across divides, to create a more care-centered world.

Cat Moore

Los Angeles, California

My mission is to embody the message, "You Belong Here." I activate people from all walks of life to become wifi hotspots of belonging everywhere they are and support organizations through organic strategy for cultures of belonging.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: 1 State

  • Offerings:

    • CLICK

      • Groups or Individuals, Online or In-Person, Facilitated or DIY

    • SPARK

      • Groups, In-Person, Facilitated or DIY

    • Re-human

      • Groups or Individuals, Online, DIY

    • SMASH! Single Moms Are Super Heroes

      • Groups, Online or In-Person, DIY

    • Curious Conversations

      • Groups, In-Person, DIY

Building a global culture of empathy

The Center for Integrative Leadership builds shared leadership for public good. Our mission is: enabling the development of skills to engage effectively across the business, government, and non-profit sectors in the next generation of leaders; generating knowledge of how to organize, sustain, and evaluate cross-sector leadership for public good; and growing capacity for cross-sector leadership on complex societal challenges where authority, engagement, and resources are distributed across sectors.

Center of Life

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

To provide families and youth with the life skills, education, training, and resources necessary to be strong and to make their communities strong.

  • Primary Audience: Minority or Underrepresented Groups

  • Geographic Footprint: 22 Communities

  • Offerings:

    • Social Justice Resource Center

      • Groups or Individuals, Online or In-Person, Facilitated or DIY

Citizen Assembly

Bensenville, Illinois

We bring together citizens in weekly free-speech forums to deliberate and develop the best solutions to our common problems. If you have a good idea, we want to hear it. If you want to lead, we will help you.

Civi

North Carolina

Enabling civil discourse and problem solving with the other side.

  • Primary Audience: General Audience 

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Civic Imagination Project

Los Angeles, California

To realize the full potential of our communities, build on our past, and chart paths forward, we need to be able to imagine what better worlds look like…even now, especially now. Responding to this imperative, the Civic Imagination Project activates people’s visions for what a better tomorrow might look like as a necessary step to connecting with others and taking action to achieve real-world goals. Over the last 7 years, our project team has built tools with people from all over the world, helping them build action plans to realize imagined solutions. To activate the civic imagination, we conduct workshops and brainstorming sessions with people from a wide range of communities to map and analyze stories that inspire and connect people, bridging the gaps people see as dividing us.

Civic Synergy

New Jersey

Enable our nation to address pressing challenges by empowering young adults to communicate and collaborate effectively across political divides; feel comfortable deliberating with those who have different views; and connect and facilitate action beyond dialogue.

CivilTalk

San Diego, California

To reunite our nation by offering an online community to civilly discuss the issues that affect us all and collaborate on solutions.

  • Primary Audience: Voting-Age Americans

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Civic Leadership Project

Washington, D.C.

The nonprofit Civic Leadership Project provides a practical holistic framework for a city, state or rural community to create a civic culture that can strengthen its civic capacity — its ability to work together to solve collective problems — as well as create a more robust nonprofit sector with the giving, volunteering and sense of community responsibility needed to successfully address the educational, social, economic and environmental challenges it faces.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: 1 State

We are committed to addressing the growing civic divide that has left our nation more polarized than any time since the Civil War. This polarization poses an urgent threat to America that goes far beyond arguments at family dinner tables or bickering on social media. It puts our national security and the very foundation of our Democracy at risk. By sewing disinformation into the fabric of our most personal conversations, our enemies are effectively exploiting, dividing, and distracting us from the real issues facing our nation and communities. That is why Community Conversations is a project for America. It brings Americans together to stop fighting and start listening because our country can’t afford to be pulled further apart.

Community Initiatives Network

Fort Collins, Colorado

Advancing communities marked by a sense of belonging, stewardship, and willingness to act for the common good.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: 50 States

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CommunityWorks

Zeeland, Michigan

Connecting and convening leaders to work together for the improvement of their neighborhoods, communities, and cities.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: 7 states

  • Offerings:

    • Hopeful Neighborhood Project Lab

      • Groups, In-Person, Facilitated

    • Coaching

      • Individuals, Online, Facilitated

    • Asset-Based Community Development 101

      • Groups, Online or In-Person, Facilitated

    • Serving With Dignity

      • Groups, In-person, Facilitated

Consensus Building Institute

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Working at the forefront of collaboration and conflict resolution, helping leaders generate breakthrough results on tough social, environmental, and economic issues. 

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: 50 states

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Consensus KC

Kansas City, Missouri

To put the public in public policy

The Constructive Dialogue Institute is a psychology-based nonprofit that builds educational tools to equip college students, high school students, and professionals with the skills for constructive dialogue.

Consulting Office of Maria Ramos-Chertok

San Francisco, California

To advance human dignity mutual understanding through transformative dialogue and interactive, thought provoking engagements.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: 2 states

  • Offerings:

    • Year Long Fellowship Across the Political Divide

      • Groups, Online or In-Person, Facilitated

We convene individuals and organizations with divergent views to build trust, identify solutions, and form alliances for action on critical national issues.

  • Primary Audience: Influencers & Decision Makers

  • Geographic Footprint: 2 states

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Open, hosted conversations in cafés as well as conferences and classrooms—anywhere people gather to make sense of our world.

Conversations in Dialogue

Raleigh, North Carolina

Cultivate an appreciation for honest and empathetic dialogue between diverse voices.

  • Primary Audience: High School Students

  • Geographic Footprint: 1 state

  • Offerings:

    • Direct community building and interaction

      • Groups, Online or In-Person, Facilitated

Courageous Conversations About Our Schools podcast is devoted to bringing education stakeholders together with diverse perspectives to have civil and fruitful conversations about issues at the center of today's culture wars in education.

Creating Common Ground, Inc.

Salem, Massachusetts

Creating Common Ground helps people bridge divides on contentious interpersonal, social and political issues. It does this by providing instruction (workshops, seminars, talks) on how to resolve around interpersonal, organizational and socio-political settings, and by publishing CCG Magazine, an online forum in which experts, pundits and ordinary people propose novel ways to resolve intractable social problems, communicate in constructive ways, and otherwise build shared values to live by.

  • Primary Audience: General

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Crossing Party Lines

New York, New York

Create open dialogue between Americans with dissimilar ideologies in order to increase tolerance, build communities, and encourage civic engagement.

CSU Center for Public Deliberation

Fort Collins, Colorado

Elevate the quality of public discourse in northern Colorado.

Davenport Institute

Malibu, California

Build stronger communities in California by promoting public participation in local governance.

  • Primary Audience: Elected officials

  • Geographic Footprint: 50 states

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Strengthen civic life in Alabama by increasing active citizenship, community collaboration, and effective decision-making. 

The Difficult Dialogues National Resource Center (DDNRC) advances innovative practices in higher education that promote transformative dialogue on controversial topics and complex social issues.

  • Primary Audience: College faculty and administrators

  • Geographic Footprint: 3 states

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Dignity Dialogues

Orlando, Florida

Dignity Dialogues builds bridges to unity and peace through civil dialogue that, first and foremost, honors the human dignity inherent in each person.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: 1 State

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Dream Corps

Oakland, California

Closing prison doors and opening doors of opportunity.

  • Primary Audience: Minority or underrepresented groups

  • Geographic Footprint: 50 States

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End It For Good, Inc.

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

We invite people to support approaches to drugs that prioritize life and the opportunity to thrive.

  • Primary Audience: Stakeholder groups in the War on Drugs and the Opioid Epidemic

  • Geographic Footprint: 1 State

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Equitable Dinners

Atlanta, Georgia

Our vision is to inspire Anti-Racism action through art and courageous conversation.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: 1 State

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ERASE Races

Tomball, Texas

Our chief mission is to remove the ideological barrier of "race" from the American mindset in order to unite all people through intentional interaction and relationship building.

  • Primary Audience: Faith communities

  • Geographic Footprint: 48 states

  • Offerings:

    • Dialogic Rules - The Art of Dialogue

      • Groups or Individuals, In-Person, Facilitated

    • TeamPrint

      • Groups, In-Person, Facilitated

    • The House

      • Groups, In-Person, Facilitated

    • De-Racialization; The Process

      • Groups or Individuals, Online or In-Person, Facilitated

Essteem

New York, New York

Essteem was born out of a need to balance the social and economic divide in technology. We aim to transform and diversify tech by organizing hackathons that connect underrepresented talent to employers.

  • Primary Audience: Minority or underrepresented groups

  • Offerings:

    • Hackathons to build tech solutions

      • Groups or Individuals, Online, Facilitated

    • Workshops and Webinars

      • Groups or Individuals, Online, Facilitated

Fact or Fiction Trivia

Denver, Colorado

Combatting the spread of misinformation and polarization through trivia.

Faith Matters Network

Nashville, Tennessee

Equips faith leaders, community organizers, and activists with resources for connection, spiritual sustainability and accompaniment. 

  • Primary Audience: Faith Communities

  • Geographic Footprint: 6 states

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FeelReal

Chicago, Illinois

To co-create a just and sustainable world by holding space for the magic of human connection.

Fierce Civility Project

Washington, D.C.

The Fierce Civility Project provides tools and experiences to compassionately bridge differences, break gridlocks of polarization, and revive the global heart.

For All Ages

Simsbury, Connecticut

For All Ages is connecting the generations and inspiring action to end loneliness, reduce ageism, and improve health and well-being.

Our mission is to empower us all to create healthy, positive, rewarding relationships with ourselves, each other, Earth, and the loving force greater than ourselves.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Offerings:

    • Relationship skill education

      • Individuals or Groups, Online or In-Person, Facilitated or DIY

    • Relationship education resources

      • Individuals, Online, DIY

Genesee Valley BOCES

LeRoy, New York

Our mission is to lead collaboratively in creating quality solutions to emerging educational challenges.

  • Primary Audience: K-12 Students

  • Geographic Footprint: 1 State

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GenUnity

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Our mission is to support diverse adults to promote their civic wellbeing - their capacity to critically evaluate, navigate, and drive change on community issues.

  • Primary Audience: Minority or underrepresented groups

  • Geographic Footprint: 1 State

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Good Group Decisions

Brunswick, Maine

Our mission is to help groups make good decisions and help people with differing views get along with each other.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Offerings:

    • Meeting Facilitation

      • Groups, Online or In-Person, Facilitated

    • Keynote Speeches

      • Groups, Online or In-Person, Facilitated

    • Online Courses and Resources

      • Individuals, Online, DIY

To help individuals, groups and organizations to build compassionate human relations that prevent and heal conflicts.

  • Primary Audience: Minority or underrepresented groups

  • Geographic Footprint: 2 States

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The Growing Democracy Project, Inc.

Staten Island, New York

The Growing Democracy Project (GDProject) envisions a national transformative civic educational system. Its job will be to develop legions of highly competent democratic practitioners through experiential training. Literally, a Democracy Corps. Its ultimate goal is to make democracy the predominant social and political force in our country.

Habits of Discourse

Hyattsville, Maryland

Helping you develop practices for healthier engagement across difference. Be a better person, by improving how you dialogue. Be a better community, by building capacity for engagement. Thrive together, by tackling critical issues.

Hands Across the Hills

Leverett, Massachusetts
Letcher County, Kentucky

Bridging divides in this time of polarization through intensive dialogues.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: 2 states

  • Offerings:

    • Intensive residential dialogue

      • Groups, Online or In-Person, Facilitated

Hands of Peace

Glenview, Illinois

Hands of Peace empowers American, Israeli and Palestinian youth to become agents of change.

Hapi

New York City, New York

Hapi is a non-clinical emotional support platform providing active listening as a service.

Healing Race

San Diego, California

Talking about race isn't always easy. Andre and Todd were college freshman roommates - one black, one white - who spent the first 25 years of knowing each other without ever discussing the topic. So they decided to go deep on the role of race and the state of race relations in the U.S... and to record their conversations so that others could see what a first conversation about race might look like, where no topic is off the table, but where they always listen, respect, and seek to understand - even and especially when we see things differently. And they are now welcoming guests on to experience that same kind of radical openness, honesty, and empathy. Healing Race is about having open, "real," constructive conversations about race, and we would love for you to join.

  • Primary Audience: General

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HearMe.app

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Use the power of empathetic listening to bring people together and make the world a kinder place.

Humilitarian

Seattle, Washington

There Are Millions of Us. Most Americans believe that tribalism and condescension have destroyed the effectiveness of our politics. They are right.

We Must Identify Each Other... Declaring, “I am a #humilitarian,” enables those of us committed to changing politics through respectful discourse to identify and find each other.

...and So Become a Political Force. When enough of us all over the political spectrum have done so, we will be a political force.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Offerings:

    • A word or identifier - "Humilitarian" - associated with a set of principles that, when followed, lead to empathic, positive-sum, results-oriented, love-motivated political discourse

      • Groups or Individuals, Online or In-Person, DIY

IMPROVment

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Brain body health for older adult communities.

In This Together

San Francisco, California

To build bridges between America's cultural, ideological, and political communities, by harnessing the power of politics and media to connect people, reduce polarization, advance problem-solving, and be a force for positive change.

Indiana Campus Compact

Indianapolis, Indiana

Advocating, implementing, and improving community engagement efforts so that students graduate as well-informed, engaged, and productive members of society who are fully enabled to provide leadership and service that advances the public good in their communities.

  • Primary Audience: College Students & Faculty

  • Geographic Footprint: 1 state

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Advancing understanding and differing interpretations of the values that define and shape the United States of America to further respectful engagement and critical thinking in public education and public life.

Interactivity Foundation

Parkersburg, West Virginia

Strengthen our democracy through the use of a small-group discussion process to explore diverse perspectives and generate an expanding set of divergent possibilities for complex areas of public concern.

Interfaith America

Chicago, Illinois

Make interfaith cooperation a social norm.

Our metropolitan Detroit community is enriched by its many religious values and practices. Religious belief and expression are the most dynamic influences in our culture. The InterFaith Leadership Council of Metropolitan Detroit brings people of many faiths together to work toward a harmonious community based on our highest and best values. We teach understanding which leads to deep respectful relationships among individuals and congregations of different faiths as well as those who do not have a religious affiliation. We advocate for resilience in the face of misunderstanding and bigotry.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: 3 counties in Detroit metro area

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Iris

San Francisco, California

Help communities communicate better, by making it easy to start small group conversations.

Junto

Asbury Park, New Jersey

Meaningful Communities at Scale

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Offerings:

    • Junto

      • Groups, Online, Facilitated

Kansas Leadership Center

Wichita, Kansas

Foster leadership for stronger, healthier, more prosperous communities.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: 40+ communities in Kansas and dozens of other states

  • Offerings:

    • The KLC Path

      • Groups or Individuals, Online or In-Person, Facilitated

KINGDOM Group International

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Tearing Down Walls of Division and Building Bridges for Unity

  • Primary Audience: Faith Communities

  • Geographic Footprint: 10 Communities

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Leadership North Carolina

Raleigh, North Carolina

Inform, develop and engage committed leaders by broadening their understanding of and involvement in issues and opportunities facing the state.

Leadership Ohio

Blacklick, Ohio

Leadership Ohio creates a unifying movement of diverse, connected leaders who make Ohio the best state to live and work.

  • Primary Audience: Adult Professionals in Ohio

  • Geographic Footprint: 1 State

  • Offerings:

    • Join In: Uniting Communities in Ohio

      • Groups or Individuals, In-Person, Facilitated

    • Bread and Salt Dinners

      • Individuals, In-person, Facilitated

    • Constructive Dialogue/Symposia Pilot

      • Groups, Online or In-Person, Facilitated or DIY

Learning Life

Washington, D.C.

Learning Life is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit lab devoted to innovating education and citizen engagement by spreading learning in everyday life beyond school walls. In our increasingly interconnected yet divided world, we develop innovative learning communities in order to widen access to world affairs, and nurture more caring, capable and connected citizens.

Let's Talk Unite

Palo Alto, California

Let’s Talk Unite is a movement dedicated to reducing political polarization through stimulating collaborative dialogue and addressing our personal biases.

Lighten Up Folks!

Galena, Illinois

To inspire open, respectful conversation among people with different political views

  • Primary Audience: General

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Listen, LP

Burbank, California

Redefine what listening is and how people do it.

  • Primary Audience: High School Students

  • Geographic Footprint: 15 states

  • Offerings:

    • Listen Film

      • Groups or Individuals, Online or In-Person, Facilitated or DIY

    • Active Listener Guidebook

      • Groups or Individuals, Online or In-Person, Facilitated or DIY

    • Listen Film Curriculum

      • Groups or Individuals, Online or In-Person, Facilitated or DIY

    • Active-Listener Training

      • Groups or Individuals, Online or In-Person, Facilitated or DIY

Listening Inn Foundation

Bangalore, Karnataka

For anyone who is looking for a safe space to be heard without judgment, without bias. Listening Inn is India’s largest digital Listening platform that uses the science of listening to create a community of well trained listeners to listen as equals & to develop the listening skills that one can use in their personal, academic and professional life. We are on a mission to create over a million listeners by 2025.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: 60+ Cities in India

  • Offerings:

    • Building India's first Digital listening platform

      • Groups or Individuals, Online, Facilitated or DIY

    • Foundational and Intensive trainings on listening

      • Groups or Individuals, Online, Facilitated or DIY

    • Online listening services at no cost

      • Individuals, Online, Facilitated

Living Room Conversations

Boulder, Colorado

We hope for a world in which people who have fundamental differences of opinion and backgrounds learn to work together with respect – and even joy

Make America Dinner Again

San Francisco, California

In an attempt to build understanding and move forward together, Make America Dinner Again invited people to sit down and have dinner. There are many avenues to protest, to donate, to fight, to be heard; Make America Dinner Again is an avenue to listen.

Marc Wong

New York, New York

To inspire everyone to understand and respect others.

The Matsunaga Institute for Peace is an academic department at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa that promotes cross-cultural understanding, collaborative problem-solving, critical thinking, and lifelong skills to groom leaders to address contemporary and complex issues near and far.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: 1 state

  • Offerings:

    • Courageous Conversations

      • Groups, Online, Facilitated

    • Cultural Talk Story Series

      • Individuals or Groups, Online, Facilitated

    • Matsunaga Institute: Peace and Conflict Education

      • Individuals or Groups, Online, Facilitated

    • Annual Peer Mediation Conference

      • Individuals or Groups, Online or In-Person, Facilitated

    • Annual International Day of Peace / Constitution Day

      • Individuals or Groups, Online or In-Person, Facilitated

Meetings of Opposites

Charlottesville, Virginia

To create the actual experience of common ground among people whose opinions are irreconcilable.

Millions of Conversations

Nashville, Tennessee

Transcend divides by uniting Americans around common values for a shared future.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: Nashville, Tennessee & Washington, D.C.

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Minnesota Council of Churches

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Manifest the unity of the body of Christ and build the common good in the world.

The Office of Collaboration and Dispute Resolution uses collaborative processes and the science of human relations to help government and stakeholders improve relationships, build trust, and develop wise and durable solutions to seemingly intractable issues.

Mixed Company

Oklahoma

Create opportunities for open conversation.

More Perfect Union

Atlanta, Georgia

MPU is a movement to strengthen communities and heal our Country by creating meaningful connections through service and leadership.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: 7 States

  • Offerings:

Move for America

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Catalyze a generation of leaders to bridge divides and strengthen our civic dialogue.

  • Primary Audience: College Students

  • Geographic Footprint: 1 state

  • Offerings:

    • Move for America Fellowship

      • Individuals, In-person, Facilitated

Nation Builder

Los Angeles, California

We envision a world where everyone has the freedom and opportunity to create what they are meant to create. We build the infrastructure for a world of creators by helping leaders develop and organize thriving communities.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Geographic Footprint: 50 states

  • Offerings:

National Civic League

Denver, Colorado

Advance civic engagement to create equitable, thriving communities.

Bring people together across divides to discuss, decide, and take action together effectively on today’s toughest issues. 

Connecting people for the purpose of strengthening civic life, with the core of our joint efforts being the belief that every person has the ability to help their community and country thrive.

Promotes healthy and civil political debate among everyday Americans and elected leaders.

To promote and strengthen public deliberation

need2Bheard

Maplewood, New Jersey

need2Bheard gives you a private, confidential, and emotionally supportive listening environment. Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who is really interested in what you want to say. Everyone deserves to have an outlet for self-expression with no judgment. It’s a basic human need.

  • Primary Audience: People aged 45-85

  • Geographic Footprint: 50 States

  • Offerings:

NewGround

Los Angeles, California

NewGround is a community-building organization that creates, connects and empowers Jewish and Muslim Change-makers in America. Through a professional fellowship, high school leadership council and public programming, NewGround transforms Muslim-Jewish relations and advances a shared agenda for change.

New Hampshire Listens

Durham, New Hampshire

Help New Hampshire residents talk and act together to create communities that work for everyone.

New Politics Leadership Academy

Boston, Massachussetts

Through leadership development programming, hard skill training, and networking events, we're building a new pipeline into politics for Americans who have served our communities and country before and who feel called to continue their service through civic engagement and politics.

No Labels

Washington, D.C.

No Labels is a national movement of Democrats, Republicans and independents working to bring America’s leaders together to solve our toughest problems. No Labels created the bipartisan House Problem Solvers Caucus and an allied Senate group that led passage of some of the most consequential legislation of recent years including the historic infrastructure bill in 2021, and the CHIPS Act, a gun safety bill and a rewrite of the Electoral Count Act in 2022.

North Carolina Campus Engagement

Elon, North Carolina

North Carolina Campus Engagement (NCCE) is a collaborative network of colleges and universities committed to educating students for civic and social responsibility, partnering with communities for positive change, and strengthening democracy. The NC Campus Engagement state office fosters connections between campuses, shares best practice information and resources, recognizes outstanding work, and champions civic and community engagement in higher education.

North Carolina Leadership Forum

Durham, North Carolina

The North Carolina Leadership Forum (NCLF) seeks to strengthen democracy and restore a culture of healthy policy making by catalyzing and accelerating cross-partisan collaboration amongst policy leaders across sectors at the state and local level. This unique North Carolina state-based program builds the will, the skills, and the relationships that these leaders need to work constructively with each other across partisan and ideological divides.

  • Primary Audience: Policy Leaders

  • Geographic Footprint: 1 State

  • Offerings:

Objectively, Inc.

Fairfax, Virginia

Reducing Cognitive Polarization by Democratizing Deliberation

One America Movement

Alexandria, Virginia

Build a united American society by eliminating toxic polarization.

  • Primary Audience: Faith Communities

  • Geographic Footprint: 50 states

  • Offerings:

Encourage activities, like cycling, that can contribute to your overall well-being, while providing suicide awareness and education; to make stronger, safer communities.

  • Primary Audience: General

  • Offerings:

Othering & Belonging Institute

Berkeley, California

The Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley brings together researchers, organizers, stakeholders, communicators, and policymakers to identify and eliminate the barriers to an inclusive, just, and sustainable society in order to create transformative change. We are a diverse and vibrant hub generating work centered on realizing a world where all people belong, where belonging entails being respected at a level that includes the right to both contribute and make demands upon society and political and cultural institutions.

We respond to issues that require both immediate action and long-term strategy. The Institute engages in innovative communications, arts and cultural strategy, and strategic narrative work that attempts to re-frame the public discourse from a dominant narrative of control and fear towards one that recognizes the humanity of all people, cares for the earth, and celebrates our inherent interconnectedness.

Our mission is to build more peaceful communities. We invite people to learn what it's like to walk in the shoes of someone who doesn't look like them by offering a safe forum for discussion.