For bridging organizationsBeyond bridging.
The bridging movement has brought individuals to a shared table, allowing people to converse across differences. For this to be translated to progress, we must undertake the expansion of this movement across more than just the political aisle, but across the separations of race, class, religion, gender, and tradition which sit at the root of our differences.
We are convening a community of practice among the leaders and staff of bridging, pluralist, and heterodox institutions. Its purpose is to consolidate what has worked and to examine, without flattery, what has not. From that candor we aim to carry the field past bridging, toward forging a shared American identity and the coalition to sustain it.
How to take part- —Share your organization's record, including what failed and why
- —Attend our first community-of-practice convening
- —Contribute an essay or case study
Bring your organization →For scholars, writers & mediaPut the traditions in conversation.
The nation's most serious thinkers are not yet conducting the conversation this moment demands. The traditions that sustain the republic seldom engage one another in genuine dialectic. Rarer still is that dialectic carried out before and with the public whose lives it governs.
Through salons, seminars, and publication, we stage the American dialectic in public view. The inquiry is deliberately polyphonic. It opens from a stated formulation of the OmniAmerican idea, then submits that formulation to be tested, contested, and enlarged by those it convenes.
How to take part- —Express interest in our first salon in 2027
- —Recommend others already doing this work
- —Write for us
Join the conversation →For every AmericanFind your fellow citizens.
Millions of Americans now regard themselves as politically homeless. A public discourse that profits from their division has left them frustrated, fearful, and bereft of agency.
We are building media, convenings, and local gatherings in which Americans can recognize one another as co-authors of a shared republic. Our aim is that people leave not merely better informed, but having built coalition across differences, having informed others through their experience, and having engaged in their own contradictions.
How to take part- —Subscribe to our newsletter and podcast
- —Join online and in-person events
- —Help found a gathering where you live
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