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Unify Challenge
Unify AmericaApril 9 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
A guided video conversation that you’ll take with another American who may vote differently...
Faith in Elections Playbook: Inspiring Trust Zoom
Interfaith AmericaApril 11 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDT
Learn invaluable insights from leaders across a variety of faith traditions and ideologies...
Building Trust by Building Together
Living Room ConversationsApril 4 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am PDT
Amid today’s increasingly divisive politics and growing mistrust, it is imperative that we...
Eradicating Racism: A Path Forward Series (April 2024)
Dock C. Bracy Center for Human ReconciliationApril 11 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT
Eradicating Racism: A Path Forward Learning Series (April 2024) Photograph by Luca Nicoletti...
Climate Forward Conference 2024
USC Center for the Political FutureApril 4 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm CDT
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My Political Autobiography: A Student Workbook
Essential Partners- Read
- Toolkit
Talking about politics is difficult because politics is one of the ways we express what we really care about—our hopes, our values, our deepest concerns. Political beliefs are about our...
Reformation Series – Cover Down: A Conversation with Dr. Richard Barton – Unite America
Veterans for All Voters- Watch
- Video-on-demand
In this Reformation Series, Todd Connor talks with Dr. Richard Barton, a Democracy Fellow at Unite America and a professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs....
Daily Democracy
ActiVote- Experience
- App
Our easy to use nonpartisan app – learn more about the features – educates voters on important issues, when and where they can cast their vote, connects them with their elected...
Media Literacy Toolkit
Mormon Women for Ethical Government- Read
- Toolkit
The founders of the United States knew an educated public would be key to the strength of a democratic republic. The creation of the First Amendment ensured citizens would have...
Polarization and Political Violence: Rachel Kleinfeld
Common Ground Committee- Listen
- Podcast
Violent threats against members of Congress are up, and hate crimes have increased to the highest levels ever recorded. Fear is being used as a tool by both Republicans and...
Conversations in Troubled Times
Living Room Conversations- Read
- Toolkit
Disruption, tragedy and conflict are part of our human story. Whether in our own backyard or internationally, deep histories of trauma and loss can make it difficult to speak about...
My Political Autobiography: A Values Reflection Worksheet
Essential PartnersPartisan political campaigns tell us who to fear and who to trust, who to exclude and how to participate. They have defined the limits of what is possible in our...
How can you talk politics in a divided family?
Braver Angels- Listen
- Podcast
In this special episode, Mónica — a liberal — joins the two people she’s argued with most — her conservative parents — for a candid conversation about one family’s struggles...
We Need to Talk: Affective Polarization and Discussion
Network for Responsible Public PolicyIn the talk, Professor Levendusky discusses the origins of affective polarization, the tendency of Democrats and Republicans to dislike and distrust one another. He will share strategies he has tested...
Resisting Polarization in an Election Season: A Four-Part Curriculum
Essential Partners- Read
- Toolkit
The 2024 election cycle has begun. Each presidential campaign cycle seems to be more contentious than the last and this one is no different. We’re bracing for months of misleading...
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Here are a few change-making organizations to consider.
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Essential Partners
- Engage Across Differences
Founded in 1989, Essential Partners helps people build relationships across differences to address their communities’ most pressing challenges.
Living Room Conversations
- Engage Across Differences
Living Room Conversations works to heal society by connecting people across divides - politics, age, gender, race, nationality, and more –...
Business for America
- Engage Across Differences
BFA mobilizes businesses to help increase civic engagement, ensure election integrity, and encourage bridge building in order to strengthen our...
Unify America
- Engage Across Differences
We are a cross-partisan grassroots organization committed to replacing politics with problem solving.
Civity
- Engage Across Differences
Civity supports leaders and community organizations on the ground to create a culture and build institutions in which everyone belongs.
Mormon Women for Ethical Government
- Voting, Elections & Policy
Mormon Women for Ethical Government's mission is to inspire women of faith to be ambassadors of peace who transcend partisanship and...
USC Center for the Political Future
- Engage Across Differences
The Center for the Political Future (CPF) combines rigorous intellectual inquiry, teaching, and practical politics to advance civil dialogue and...
National Institute for Civil Discourse
- Engage Across Differences
Engaging people in constructive conversations across our divides
Resolutionaries
- Engage Across Differences
Our network of professional and passionate Resolutionaries aim to encourage people to stop fighting over political problems and starting working...
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