Across the country, there are a number of regional and national organizations working to encourage productive dialogue. Learn more about them here (descriptions of organizations taken from their web materials).
- The Better Arguments Project – A national civic initiative created to help bridge divides – not by papering over those divides but by helping people have Better Arguments. In this sense, arguments don’t have to drive us apart. Better Arguments can bring us together.
- Braver Angels – Braver Angels is leading the nation’s largest cross-partisan, volunteer-led movement to bridge the partisan divide for the good of our democratic republic.
- Engaging Differences, A Program at the National Institute for Civil Discourse – Engaging in conversations across the divide opens doors to finding common ground and moves our country toward a more perfect union.
- Living Room Conversations – Connecting people across divides – politics, age, gender, race, nationality, and more – through guided conversations proven to build understanding and transform communities.
- National Issues Forum – Creating a framework for the deliberative process to ensure a careful, nonpartisan way of presenting alternatives and welcoming different views.
- The Village Square – A non-partisan public educational forum on matters of local, state and national importance 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.
