FixUS Landscape Review

Groups and organizations working to study and/or impact cultural and societal change as a way of addressing political division, including but not limited to: those promoting more civility in political discourse, the need for civic education/civic engagement, and/or advancing new models of collaborative problem-solving/negotiation on public policy issues.

A Peace of My Mind – A Peace of My Mind is a multimedia arts project created by award-winning photographer John Noltner which uses portraits and personal stories to bridge divides and encourage dialogue around important issues. Through exhibits, workshops, lectures, on-site studios, and distance learning, A Peace of My Mind leads transformative experiences that help a polarized world rediscover the common humanity that connects us. 

The Acceptance Project (TAP) – TAP is a student-run and student-led organization founded as a club at Stroudsburg Junior High School to create an adequate time and environment for students to have constructive and civil dialogue about the divisive issues facing the nation and the world. 

ActivisTheology – The ActivisTheology Project is a collaborative team of public theologians, justice advocates, and strategy-minded people situated in the hybrid space of the church, social change, and the academy passionate about its commitment to the ethics and politics of en conjunto (togetherness).

ActiVote – ActiVote works to empower all Americans to be active in democracy by helping voters create the habit of voting. It provides easy access to your elections and what candidates really stand for while filtering out all the noise.

ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge – The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge strives for a more inclusive democracy. It envisions a country in which the electorate mirrors the country’s makeup and college students are democratically engaged on an ongoing basis: during and between elections, and not just at the polls. 

American Democracy Project (ADP) – ADP is a network of more than 250 state colleges and universities focused on public higher education’s role in preparing the next generation of informed, engaged citizens for our democracy.

American Dialogue Project – The American Dialogue Project exists to help people be in conversation with one another in an accessible, productive way. It is a platform for building our capacity for dialogue. 

American Exchange Project – The American Exchange Project takes the model of a foreign exchange, a study abroad, and applies it to towns and cities across the United States. The aim is to build enduring respect and understanding across economic, political, and geographic divides, which will help both adults and students realize more unites them than divides them.

The American Leader – The American Leader is a public education resource that documents the history and current events surrounding the nation's struggles to address systemic problems to focus relentlessly on the issues that shape our world and to make them more accessible to all Americans. 

American Listening Project – American Listening Project is an organization that facilitates 15-minute sessions in which Americans listen across the political divide and understand each other’s differences. 

American Pals – American Pals is an intra-national pen pal project enabling students to get to know their country and fellow citizens better. 

American Press Institute – The American Press Institute advances an innovative and sustainable news industry by helping publishers understand and engage audiences, grow revenue, improve public service journalism, and succeed at organizational change.

American Public Square – American Public Square is a nonpartisan nonprofit that seeks to change the tone and quality of public discourse. It organizes programs that feature expert panelists and audience members with opposing views talking to each other civilly about controversial topics.

Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life – The Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life, based at the University of Texas at Austin, cultivates informed voters and active citizens. It does so through research, education, and outreach programs focused on three key pillars: civic discovery, young people, and civil dialogue.

Ask Big Questions – Ask Big Questions is an organization that partners with colleges to set up opportunities for students of different backgrounds and perspectives can talk about important issues.

Beyond Conflict – Beyond Conflict has created powerful and innovative frameworks to open pathways for progress in peace talks, transitions to democracy, and national reconciliation in the aftermath of division and violence in over 75 countries.

Big Tent Nation – Big Tent Nation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit initiative dedicated to substantially increasing the number of citizens working together to address America’s highest-stakes economic challenges through information technology and social networks.

Braver Angels – Braver Angels (formerly Better Angels) is a national citizens' movement to reduce political polarization in the United States by bringing liberals and conservatives together to understand each other beyond stereotypes, forming red/blue community alliances, and teaching practical skills for communicating across political differences.

BreakBread World – BreakBread World is a growing global community dedicated to reweaving our common humanity through interactive and inspired conversation while sharing in the intimate act of breaking bread together. 

Bridge Alliance – Bridge Alliance is a movement of more than 80 civic action organizations working individually and together to transform the political terrain. It provides essential infrastructure and investment to connect and collaborate on projects that further shared goals to generate a collective impact.

Bridge the Divide – Bridge the Divide is a political initiative that seeks to promote political conversation amongst youth in a time of great divide in both American and global political affairs. It works to unite politically active students who desire to create change in the world by stimulating conversation productively and respectfully. 

BridgeUSA – BridgeUSA believes that good governance starts with constructive political discussion. Its organization works with America’s future leaders on college campuses to foster spaces wherein a diverse range of ideas can engage one another through the practice of responsible discourse.

Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI) – BDI is a nonpartisan research initiative of Princeton University that tracks and mitigates political violence in the U.S. The group aims to build trust and cooperation in communities to bridge our nation's divides by giving people information about what is happening in their community and sharing resources that facilitate local engagement and full democratic participation. 

Bring It to The Table – Bring It to The Table is a short documentary, webisode series, online platform, and community engagement campaign aimed at bridging political divides and breaking down partisanship.

The Burke-Paine Society (BPS) – BPS brings together cross-partisan discussion groups across the nation to engage in civil dialogue and reinvigorate the American political system through healthy debate based on inclusiveness, empathy, intellectual curiosity, and humility. 

Campus Compact – Campus Compact is a coalition of college and university presidents committed to fulfilling the public purposes of higher education. It works to ensure students graduate with an education in democracy & civic responsibility.

Campus Vote Project (CVP) – CVP, an initiative of Fair Elections, works with universities, community colleges, faculty, students, and election officials to reduce barriers to student voting. Its goal is to help campuses institutionalize reforms that empower students with the information they need to register and vote.

Center for Civic Design – Center for Civic Design is an organization that seeks to make every interaction between government and citizens easy by using civic design skills to improve the voting experience, making elections easier to administer, and encouraging participation in elections.

Center for Inclusion and Belonging – The Center for Inclusion and Belonging is an effort of the American Immigration Council. Its mission is to "change hearts and minds towards those considering the 'other' and building bridges across differences" and to make investments in attitude and behavioral changes to heal and move towards a more united future.

Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) – CIRCLE focuses on young people in the United States, especially those who are politically marginalized or disadvantaged. It is based at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University.

Center for New Democratic Processes – The Center for New Democratic Processes (formerly the Jefferson Center) is compiled of international leaders in civic participation, deliberation, and engagement, driven to design the future of democracy. It partners with citizens, communities, and institutions to design and implement informed, innovative, and democratic solutions to today’s toughest challenges.

Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) – CTCL is a nonpartisan nonprofit that uses technology to improve the way local governments and communities interact by providing free and low-cost resources for local election administrators and publishing free, open-source civic datasets.

Cities 4 Peace – Cities 4 Peace’s mission is to build the capacity of individuals, organizations, and communities with transformative frameworks and tools that increase social connection and resilience and bring peace across the world. 

Citizen Discourse – Citizen Discourse’s mission is to support the development of self-aware and empathetic individuals who contribute to a more just and compassionate society. Through experiential learning and peer-to-peer sharing, Citizen Discourse’s research-backed methodology and curriculum create space for learning, connection, and reflection and promote the practice of healthy discourse skills. 

Citizen University – Citizen University is an organization building a culture of powerful, responsible citizenship across the country. It envisions a great civic revival where Americans are steeped in a sense of civic character, educated in the tools of civic power, and are problem-solving contributors in a self-governing community.

The Civic Circle – The Civic Circle empowers young students to understand and participate in democracy through music and the arts, inspiring compassionate, informed, engaged citizens. 

Civic Genius – Civic Genius (formerly Common Ground Solutions) seeks to increase civic engagement; improve the quality of political discourse; highlight real-world stories of people working together across political lines; and forge moderate, commonsense solutions to the biggest challenges.

Civic Health Project – Civic Health Project is a fiscal project of the Mediators Foundation dedicated to reducing toxic partisan polarization and enabling healthier public discourse and decision-making across citizenry, politics, and media. Through grant-making and advocacy, it supports initiatives that empower Americans to reject tribal partisanship and come together to solve the nation’s greatest challenges.

The Civic Leadership Project – The 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. 

Civic Nation – Civic Nation uses organizing, engagement, and public awareness to address some of the nation's most pressing challenges. It works with public and private partners to inspire, educate, and activate people around the issues important to our country.

Civics Unplugged (CU) – CU is powered by a global community of young leaders who have graduated from the CU Fellowship and are working together to grow as leaders and build a brighter future for humanity. 

Civil Dialogues – Civil Dialogues is an online forum to deliberate and form a consensus on urgent matters. The site was launched by the Communitarian Network, a corporation dedicated to finding constructive solutions to social problems through morally informed policy analysis and moral dialogue. 

Civil Society Institute (CSI) – CSI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education organization focusing on advancing civic engagement on issues that directly affect individuals and the communities in which they live and raise their families. Research and education efforts prioritize the support of democratic institutions and citizen involvement in solving problems using innovative strategies and unique partnerships.

Civil Squared – Civil Squared’s purpose is to get un-likeminded people talking again to create the most effective solutions to the challenges our communities face. It does this through balanced weekly newsletters, biweekly podcasts with nationally recognized scholars, experts, and authors, and encouraging participants to engage in real-time with experts and other community members through online and in-person events. 

CivXNow – CivXNow is a project of iCivics that works to ensure that the civic mission of schools is at the core of education as a way to sustain our democratic republic. This is done through the CivXNow Coalition, and it works to catalyze a national mindset shift to prioritize civic engagement and civic education, which in turn is meant to drive policies and investments in civic education.

College to Congress – College to Congress is a nonpartisan program that provides financial support to cover interns’ first professional wardrobe, transportation, housing, meals, and various needs. The program includes curated leadership training to prepare students to emerge as public service stewards.

Common Ground Committee – Common Ground Committee is a citizen-led nonprofit that inspires action on polarizing issues by bringing prominent leaders with opposing views together in public forums to find common ground. Its singular focus is bringing light, not heat, to public discourse.

Compassionate America Network – Compassionate America Network houses programming by and for independent-minded Americans tied to civics education, civic awareness, and civic reform initiatives. 

Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) – CMF works directly with members of Congress and staff to enhance their operations and interactions with constituents. CMF works directly with citizen groups to educate them on how Congress works, giving constituents a stronger voice in policy outcomes.

Consensus Building Institute (CBI) – CBI is a nonprofit organization that helps leaders within and across organizations, sectors, and stakeholder groups to collaborate on the most significant social, environmental, and economic challenges to resolve them.

Convergence Center for Policy Resolution – The Convergence Center for Policy Resolution convenes individuals and organizations with divergent views to build trust, identify solutions, and form alliances for action on critical national issues. It employs a proven methodology of dialogue-leading-to-action to find breakthrough solutions and look to empower unlikely alliances to create change. 

Conversation Café – Conversation Cafés are open, hosted conversations in cafés as well as conferences and classrooms—anywhere people gather to make sense of our world – as part of a simple process that helps to shift us from small talk to “big” talk. 

The Conversationalist – The Conversationalist is a nonpartisan educational platform empowering Gen Z to break out of their echo chambers, have difficult conversations, and unify. 

Crossing Party Lines (CPL) – CPL hosts weekly moderation conversations available to the public and free to all, giving each participant a chance to share their unique perspectives and encouraging appreciation of the different ways we each see the world. 

Cultivate the Karass – Cultivate the Karass was founded to foster dialogue among leaders regardless of party affiliation – and begin to find compromise and progress on the issues people care most about.

Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership – The Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy works with local governments, nonprofit organizations, and residents to both promote and support constructive and broad-based civic involvement in decisions that affect people where they live and work.

David Mathews Center for Civic Life – The David Mathews Center for Civic Life is a nonprofit, nonpartisan corporation that builds skills, habits, and capacities for more effective civic engagement and innovative decision-making.

Deliberations.US – Deliberations.US brings Americans together from every walk of life for conversations on the political issues of the day. By engaging Americans in balanced and fact-based discussions, Deliberations.US fosters informed opinions and reveals common ground, bringing democracy back to the people. 

Democracy Works – Democracy Works connects with colleges and universities, election officials, peer institutions, and corporate and nonprofit partners to make voting easier by tackling issues such as lack of time, registration problems, and inconvenient polling places.

The Dialogue Project – The Dialogue Project is a research effort to explore what role business can play to help improve civil discourse and reduce polarization. 

Difficult Dialogues National Resource Center (DDNRC) – The DDNRC was founded to ensure that college and university campuses remain places to protect freedom of expression, sustain academic freedom, promote pluralism, and expand opportunities for constructive communication across different perspectives. 

Divided We Fall – Divided We Fall is a nonprofit news publication working to provide bipartisan dialogue for the politically engaged. It publishes debates, interviews, and op-eds between individuals who disagree to demonstrate productive civil discourse and bipartisanship. 

Essential Partners – The mission of Essential Partners is to foster constructive dialogue where conflicts are driven by differences in identity, beliefs, and values.

Every Day Democracy – Every Day Democracy supports organizing across the country by bringing diverse groups of people together, helping them structure and facilitate community dialogue on pressing issues, and training them to use a racial equity lens to understand longstanding problems and possible solutions. 

Faith & Politics Institute – The Faith & Politics Institute inspires political leaders to reflect and engage with one another for the good of our nation. It cultivates mutual respect, moral reflection, increased understanding, and honest conversation among political leaders to advance productive discourse and constructive collaboration.

Fierce Civility Project – The Fierce Civility Project team offers tools and experiences for teams and organizations to go out into the world powerfully — beyond stagnation, conflict, and polarization — towards a path that leads to balance, stability, and thriving. 

Focolare Movement – The Focolare Movement is a faith-based group spreading the message of unity worldwide through various forms of dialogue; it is committed to building bridges of fraternal relationships among individuals, between cultural groups, and in every area of society. 

Foundation for Civic Leadership – The Foundation for Civic Leadership is a nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging the next generation of global citizens. It works with partners to identify gaps in the field, incubates new scalable projects to help fill them, and supports those projects in becoming independent and sustainable.

Free Radicals Project (FRP) – FRP is a global extremism prevention and education network. Its process focuses on building knowledge and understanding of how extremist groups operate, recruit, and grow, to counter and disrupt them. 

Gell – Gell is an organization that brings together a diverse group of thought leaders and engaged citizens to encourage, facilitate, and moderate healthy discussions and debates on the most important issues. It then prioritizes the top-rated opinions for and against important issues to help people make better decisions with their actions, votes, and lives. 

Generation Citizen (GC) – GC works to ensure that all students in the United States receive an effective action civics education, which provides them with the knowledge and skills necessary to participate in our democracy as active citizens.

Hands Across the Hills – Hands Across the Hills, formed in response to the 2016 election, is an organization helping individuals meet face to face with others who voted differently, eliminating the voices of politicians and the media, who seek to divide us, to see us as enemies, red versus blue.

Harvard Negotiation Project (HNP) – The mission of HNP is to improve the theory and practice of conflict resolution and negotiation by working on real-world conflict intervention, theory building, education and training, and writing and disseminating new ideas.

The Harwood Institute – The Harwood Institute equips people, organizations, communities, and networks with the tools to bridge divides, build capacity, and tackle shared challenges. For over 30 years, it has created breakthroughs on how to address the hardest and most vital societal challenges and strengthen our civic culture. 

Healthy Democracy – Healthy Democracy is a US-based nonpartisan nonprofit that designs and coordinates innovative deliberative democracy programs. 

The Hearth – The Hearth is an organization that trusts in the power of personal stories to heal, connect, enrich, and mobilize communities for good. It believes that in an increasingly fast-paced and fractured world, sharing stories can be a radical and deeply human practice for strengthening common values, combating loneliness, cultivating compassion, and uncovering the ties that bind us to one another. 

Hello Bench – Hello Bench, a project in which people sit on question mark-shaped benches set up in downtown centers, local parks or libraries, museums, and college or corporate campuses, encourages individuals who rarely interact to engage in meaningful conversation. 

Henry Clay Center – The Henry Clay Center transforms the tone of national discourse in the legacy of former Speaker of the House Henry Clay by challenging current and future leaders to honestly, critically, and intelligently reflect on matters of national significance, debate the merits of those issues, and ultimately arrive at compromises to solve problems facing the nation.

Heterodox Academy – Heterodox Academy is an advocacy group of 1,800 professors and grad students that work to counteract what it sees as the narrowing of political viewpoints on college campuses.

High Resolves – High Resolves is an organization that believes the increasingly complex challenges of our world require a generation of young people to have the intention, skills, vision, creativity, and confidence to accomplish what previous generations have failed to do: act in the long-term collective interest of humanity.

iCivics – iCivics is a gaming platform where young people learn how government works by experiencing it. They step into the role of a judge, a member of Congress, a community activist, and even the President of the United States – and do the job they do.

Inclusivv – Inclusivv is an engagement platform empowering businesses, communities, and individuals to create positive social change through small-group structured conversation. Its conversation design provides a simple framework for discussion on complex issues, helping communities and teams connect over shared experiences and common goals for a more inclusive world. 

Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure – The Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure is a research center based at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst that studies the civic and social role of internet platforms and advocates for approaches to digital infrastructures that treat platforms and supporting technologies as public spaces and public goods, not purely as profit-making ventures.

The Institute for Civility in Government – The Institute for Civility in Government is a grassroots, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that is building civility in an uncivil society that all too often seems tilted toward uncivil speech and actions.

Institute for Cultural Evolution (ICE) – ICE is an “integral think tank” focusing on the cultural roots of America’s challenges. It seeks to overcome the problem of hyper-partisan polarization by evolving the political positions of both the Right and the Left according to their own values and strengths.

Intelligence Squared US – Intelligence Squared US aims to restore critical thinking, facts, reason, and civility to American public discourse by providing a forum for balanced and intelligent debate that is distributed over radio, podcast, online broadcast, TV, and digital video.

Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) – IFYC is a national nonprofit that equips the next generation of citizens and professionals with the knowledge and skills needed for leadership in a religiously diverse world. Partnering with higher education institutions and corporations, IFYC is dedicated to making interfaith cooperation the norm and building Interfaith America in the 21st century. 

Junior State of America Foundation (JSA) – JSA was created by and for young people interested in what happens around them – from politics to how government works and contributing to their community. It serves as a place to build leadership skills, learn civil debate, and strengthen engagement through volunteering and activism.

Lead For America – Lead for America is an organization that looks for community members who prioritize humility, service, and collective impact over self-advancement, who are just as committed to developing their character as they are their careers, and who are willing to question and vigorously pursue the intersection of their talents and the world’s deep need. 

Listen Courageously – Listen Courageously is an award-winning film and series of transformative virtual workshops on the power of empathic listening for improving understanding across ideological preferences, sexual orientations, skin colors, and cultural heritages. 

Listen First Project – Listen First Project encourages conversations that prioritize understanding to bridge divides and mend our frayed social fabric. It catalyzes the #ListenFirst movement powered by more than 225 partner organizations, thousands of individuals, the National Conversation Project, and local chapters around the world.

Listening Inn – Listening Inn is an organization that seeks to cultivate the skill of compassionate listening by creating a support network of over a million volunteer listeners by 2025. 

Living Room Conversations – Living Room Conversations is an organization that forms a conversational bridge across issues that divide and separate people by providing an easy structure for engaging in friendly yet meaningful conversation with those with whom we may not agree.

Lubetzky Family Foundation – The Lubetzky Family Foundation seeks to foster empathy and critical thinking to build resilient democracies and safeguard humanity. It aims to build more empathetic, respectful, reflective, and just communities fueled by the spirit of social entrepreneurship. 

Made By Us – Made By Us is a group of history and civic organizations collaborating nationwide to better serve the public and join the ongoing conversation about our country's future. It pools resources and coordinates to model a new path forward for the ways history can serve the people.

Make America Dinner Again – Make America Dinner Again is a nationwide collective of local units dedicated to bridging divides through respectful small-group dinner conversations and guided activities between individuals with differing political viewpoints and America’s best interests at heart. 

Make Shift Coffee House – Make Shift Coffee Houses are places where Republicans and Democrats share stories and opinions in a two-way conversation, gain understanding, build respect, find common ground, and prepare for future challenges.

Mediators Foundation – The overarching purpose of the Mediators Foundation is to prevent and reduce conflicts and promote collaboration by developing and promoting proven methods for increasing the human capacity for peaceful, creative problem-solving in ways that motivate participants to become more aware and engaged citizens.

MetaCulture Studio – MetaCulture’s educational division is committed to developing intelligent and thoughtful citizens who can sustain free and open societies. To this end, it started MetaCulture Studio, a creative laboratory and platform to advocate for greater intelligence, nuance, and subtlety in our public and private spheres.

Millions of Conversations – Millions of Conversations is a media-driven campaign designed to change existing narratives that marginalize and politicize “the other.” Starting with the predominant narrative about Muslim-Americans, it focuses on eliminating stigma in all its forms. 

Move for America – Move for America is an organization that seeks to create an American democracy grounded in civic participation and mutual understanding by catalyzing a generation of young people to bridge divides and strengthen our shared understanding of differences through its fellowship program, events, and workshops.

Narrative 4 – Narrative 4 is a global organization driven by artists, shaped by educators, and led by students. Its core methodology, the story exchange, is designed to help students understand that their voices, stories, actions, and lives matter and that they have the power to change, rebuild, and revolutionize systems. 

National Civic League – The mission of the National Civic League is to advance civic engagement to create equitable, thriving communities. It achieves this by inspiring, supporting, and recognizing inclusive approaches to community decision-making.

National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) – NCDD is a community and coalition of thousands of groups and professionals who bring people of all stripes together to discuss, decide, and collaborate on today's toughest issues.

The National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) – NCoC is dedicated to strengthening civic life in America through a nationwide network of partners involved in a cutting-edge civic health initiative.

National Constitution Center – A private nonprofit organization, the National Constitution Center serves as America’s leading platform for constitutional education and debate, fulfilling its congressional charter “to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.”

National Institute for Civil Discourse – The National Institute for Civil Discourse integrates research, practice, and policy to support and engage elected officials, the public, and the media who are working for the common good of the country while promoting civil discourse.

National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI) – NIFI is a nonpartisan, nationwide network of locally sponsored public forums for the consideration of public policy issues. It is rooted in the simple notion that people need to come together to reason and talk—to deliberate about common problems.

New American Leaders – New American Leaders is leading a movement for inclusive democracy by preparing first and second-generation Americans to use their power and potential in elected office.

New Voice Strategies (NVS) – NVS creates, incubates, and launches projects aimed at healing divides, restoring compassion, and strengthening self-government. 

News Literacy Project – The News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan national education nonprofit, teaches educators how to teach students the skills they need to become smart, active consumers of news and information and engaged, informed participants in our democracy.

Nonprofit VOTE – Nonprofit VOTE partners with America’s nonprofits to help the people they serve participate and vote. It is the largest source of nonpartisan resources to help nonprofits integrate voter engagement into their ongoing activities and services.

North Carolina Leadership Forum (NCLF) – NCLF is a program sponsored by the Office of the Provost at Duke University, providing an opportunity for civic, business, and political leaders from across North Carolina to discuss issues central to the state. 

One America Movement – The One America Movement was founded after the 2016 presidential election and launched with the support of Repair the World. They bring Americans together across racial, religious, political, and geographic divides to address pressing social problems—poverty, opioids, racial tension, and more.

OpenGov Foundation – The OpenGov Foundation is a fiercely apolitical nonprofit dedicated to serving those who serve the people in America’s legislatures. Its mission is to create a 21st century Congress where elected officials and staff can meaningfully engage at scale with those they represent.

OpenMind – OpenMind is an online program grounded in evidence-based psychology that takes users on a five-step journey that prepares them emotionally, psychologically, and practically for constructive engagement across differences.

Outreach Experts – Outreach Experts helps companies and organizations navigate that change by designing and implementing award-winning engagement programs, public education campaigns, and employee ambassador programs. It seeks to redefine how people participate in civic and political life while resetting the definition of what makes a socially responsible organization. 

Over Zero – Over Zero is an organization founded as an outgrowth of Sisi ni Amani International that seeks to strengthen local violence prevention efforts through leveraging communication-based tools. Its interdisciplinary and cross-sector approach contributes to the broader field of identity-based violence prevention. 

Pairagraph – Pairagraph is a platform for written dialogue between pairs of notable individuals: in essence, an online meeting place for the world’s most prominent figures across government, industry, academia, religion, and the arts. Its mission is to revive this dualistic and dialectic mode of discourse, which has fallen lately into a state of decay. 

Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) – PBP is a nonprofit organization empowering people to decide together how to spend public money – primarily in the US and Canada – to deepen democracy, build stronger communities, and make public budgets more equitable and effective.

Peace Through Action USA – Peace Through Action USA activates and equips Americans to implement practical peaceful solutions to aggression and violence in their communities and our country. Its programs improve community organizations’ capacity to deliver peaceful practices to community members, increase community members' competence in peaceful practices, change norms of acceptable behavior among the public, increase social capital within communities, and uplift community spirits. 

The People – The People finds common ground and takes action to create a more responsive government by addressing the root causes of government ineffectiveness and reducing the unproductive effects of the current two-party political system. 

The People's Supper – The People's Supper is an organization that develops tools, resources, storytelling content, and training for individuals to build trust and connection among people of different identities and perspectives.

Perspective – Perspective is an organization that promotes personal interactions through the sharing of different viewpoints on global situations and focuses on the ability to broadcast one’s views and input to a collaborative audience that helps to facilitate present-day impactful conversations and more. 

Philanthropy Bridging Divides (PBD) – PBD is a project of the Mediators Foundation that brings together senior leaders of America's major philanthropies from across the political spectrum to enhance the capacity of foundations to work together to unite, rather than divide, America. 

Police 2 Peace – Police 2 Peace is an organization whose mission is to unite departments and communities around programs that uplift and heal them. As a connector and translator between sometimes opposing organizations, it helps build bridges with police services agencies of all types nationally and the citizens they serve and protect. 

Policy Jury Group – Founded in 2017, the Policy Jury Group is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. The programs within it engage small groups of randomly-selected "juries" of the public to aid policy decision-makers in an impactful and nonpartisan way.

POPVOX – POPVOX is a neutral, nonpartisan platform for civic engagement and governing that provides technology to inform and empower people and make government work better for everyone.

Project Divided – Project Divided works to understand political division and facilitates conversations between problem-solvers in our communities. Its work is a Gen-Z approach to politics that is about understanding how to work together to problem-solve from the local level up. 

Project on Ethics in Political Communication – The Project on Ethics in Political Communication encourages students, academics, and practitioners to consider the ethical obligations of political communications professionals through resource development, events, research, and coordination with current professionals. 

Public Engagement Associates – Public Engagement Associates’ mission is to help improve the quality and effectiveness of citizen engagement. It exists to help public officials and other decision-makers understand what their constituents want and need through effective strategy and dynamic engagement, as well as to help citizens by enabling their voices to be heard on issues that matter to them. 

Purple America – Purple America is a national initiative of the Values-in-Action Foundation that works to reengage Americans in civil dialog and constructive social action rooted in the common ground of their shared values.

ReConsider – ReConsider’s mission is to fight political polarization and improve the quality of political discourse by providing practical discussion strategies and provocative content that challenges common narratives. 

Renew America Together – Renew America Together is an organization promoting greater common ground in America by reducing partisan division and gridlock. It revitalizes public and political discourse by teaching and promoting civics, citizenship, and civility. 

Renew Democracy Initiative – Renew Democracy Initiative is an organization that works to promote intellectual humility and an empathetic approach to disagreeing, debate, and progress for a stronger democracy.

Resetting the Table – Resetting the Table collaborates with strategic partners to build important communication across political silos in American life. 

Resolutionaries – Resolutionaries is a nonprofit organization working to restore a national sense of commonality through respectful dialogue and discussions in cities across the United States. 

Rock the Vote – Rock the Vote is a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to building the political power of young people.

Search for Common Ground – Search for Common Ground is an organization that advocates a type of peacebuilding called conflict transformation: it looks to change the everyday interactions between groups of people in conflict, so they can work together to build up their community, choosing joint problem-solving over violence. 

Seeds of Peace – Seeds of Peace works to equip exceptional youth and educators with the skills and relationships to work in solidarity across lines of difference to create more just and inclusive societies. 

Someone To Tell It To – Someone To Tell It To is an organization formed from a desire to support people more deeply and give everyone someone who would listen with compassion, providing paired listening interactions and encouraging healthy levels of vulnerability and compassion to foster meaningful relationships. It also trains individuals and organizations to do the same. 

Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute – The SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins is a multidisciplinary academic and public forum strengthening global democracy by improving and expanding civic engagement and inclusive dialogue and by supporting inquiry that leads to real-world change.

Sustained Dialogue Institute – The Sustained Dialogue Institute helps people to transform conflictual relationships and design change processes around the world. It defines dialogue as “listening deeply enough to be changed by what you learn.” 

TownSquare – TownSquare is a platform that breaks the existing societal divide by providing a safe space for people to connect and interact with one another through the lens of one’s content of character as well as engage each other in civil discourse in a way that encourages empathy and understanding of opposing viewpoints.

Trust Network – Trust Network is a membership network working to build a national cohesion and peacebuilding infrastructure for the US, including an Early Warning Early Action system to prevent violence. 

TurboVote – TurboVote is an application that helps Americans register to vote and request absentee ballots.

Unify America – Unify America is a nonpartisan grassroots organization committed to replacing politics with problem-solving by enabling “bubble-bursting conversations." Its vision is to coach and empower everyday Americans to participate directly in civic decision-making at all levels of government. 

Unite – Unite is a national impact initiative that invests in projects that tell the stories of Americans who are "uniters," catalyzes solutions for national problems, and undertakes studies that result in fresh insights about what it will take to step into the identity of "the uniter."

United and Together – United and Together is a nonpartisan community that helps unite Americans by encouraging interactions that begin with listening to each other. It is helping people with different opinions express their viewpoints through productive discussions. 

Unity Lab – Unity Lab is an organization that seeks to create cultures of purpose and belonging, and in the process, heal the great divides in our nation. Leveraging the latest research and best practices in purpose activation, social learning, psychology, and neuroscience, it serves organizations by bringing its diverse people together to activate purpose and belonging, transcend perceived boundaries, build friendships, and find common cause. 

Urban Confessional – Urban Confessional is a community of individuals who stand on street corners with signs that read “Free Listening” and open their hearts to anyone who needs to laugh, cry, scream, or chat. Over the years, the community has grown to include people from all walks of life across 6 continents, over 70 countries, and 43 states. 

The Village Square – The Village Square is a nonpartisan public educational forum on matters of local, state, and national importance. It is dedicated to maintaining factual accuracy in civic and political debate by growing civil discourse on divisive issues and recalling the history and principles at the foundation of our democracy. 

Voice of the People (VOP) – VOP is a nonpartisan organization that re-anchors democracy in its founding principles by giving ‘We the People’ a greater role in government. VOP furthers the use of innovative methods and technology to give the American people a more effective voice in the policymaking process.

Vote.org – Vote.org uses technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy.

Waging Dialogue – Waging Dialogue seeks to discover a new language for empathic communication to counteract the cultural and technological forces that divide people across modern society. It facilitates challenging online conversations across political and cultural divides in the service of peaceful problem-solving, coexistence, and human understanding.

Weave: The Social Fabric Project – Weave, a project of the Aspen Institute, aims to build social trust to address the root cultural cause behind many of America’s social problems. Weave’s mission is to invite everyone to start living like a Weaver and shift our culture from one that values achievement and individual success to one that finds value in deep relationships and community success. 

Welcoming America – Welcoming America is an organization that provides communities the roadmap and support they need to become more inclusive toward immigrants and all residents.

WeListen – WeListen is an organization that facilitates small-group conversations on college campuses – featuring Democratic, Republican, and independent participants – on important political topics. Conversations are designed for the purpose that participants might leave with an enhanced understanding of how individuals’ backgrounds and value systems affect how they see the world. 

Western Justice Center – The Western Justice Center empowers people to strengthen their communities by growing the conflict resolution skills and capacity of youth, educators, schools, and community partners. It aims to build a healthy democracy by equipping the next generation with tools to confront, embrace the complexities of, and resolve conflicts. 

When We All Vote – When We All Vote is a national, nonpartisan not-for-profit that brings together citizens, institutions, and organizations to spark a conversation about our rights and responsibilities in shaping our democracy – specifically the responsibility of registering and voting.

Winter Institute – The William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation works in communities, organizations, and classrooms, in Mississippi and beyond, to support a movement of equity and wholeness as a pathway to ending and transcending all division and discrimination based on differences. 

Worldwide Civility Council – The Worldwide Civility Council (WCC) is an umbrella organization created to help promote civility and help assist various civility organizations as appropriate. 

YapPolitics – YapPolitics provides engaging, communicative, and civil political debate software for political clubs on college campuses post-COVID-19. It is the first tech-enabled platform to promote democratic engagement with live debate technology. 

YOUnify – YOUnify is a nonprofit project aimed at reducing polarization and cultural divisions of all kinds to accelerate progress on solutions to the key challenges of our time. 

Youthivism – Youthivism's mission is to increase youth involvement in politics and promote discussion across party lines by partnering with teachers and students to spread political education.