Promoting Social Cohesion in the U.S.

(How to) Build Up’s The Commons is a U.S.-based program that works to strengthen, heal, and humanize relationship-building online, with a focus on race and politics. Learn more here.
Acquaint facilitates one-on-one conversations between volunteers. Their website indicates that volunteers from over 90 countries have built intercultural understanding and collaborative skills through one-on-one conversations. Learn more here.
Beyond Conflict has created a video designed to challenge and correct Democrats’ and Republicans’ misperceptions of each other. Learn more, get involved, and receive developed resources and tools here.
Crossing Party Lines holds weekly meetings on controversial topics. Participants choose topics of interest to them and sign up to attend on Meetup. Learn more here.
Ideas Beyond Borders’ Global Conversations program uses Facebook discussion groups to talks about curated content on controversial topics. Learn more here.
IREX runs programs connecting youth in the U.S. with partners in Latin America and the Middle East in virtual dialogues. In these efforts, IREX conducted a landscape analysis to understand how public libraries can promote bridge-building community activities. Learn more here and here.

Infer-Faith Dialogue

The Ideos Institute is a community of Christians working to foster unity and reconciliation. Learn more here.
The Muslim Community Network offers Interfaith programs for youth and adults in NYC. Its website provides an explicit invitation for volunteers to participate in food drives, a soup kitchen, and other programs. Learn more here.
The Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers supports the positive influence of religious and traditional actors in collaborative peacebuilding and facilitates connections between grassroots peacemakers and high-level policymakers. Learn more here.
Peace Catalyst encourages faith communities to use their guide to start their own projects, and will provide workshops for churches or communities. Learn more here.
Search for Common Ground’s Common Ground USA program worked with the Multi-Faith Neighbors Network and the Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab at American University to develop a Peacemaker’s Toolkit to help faith leaders in the U.S. foster peace and resilience. Learn more here.
The Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding designs educational resources and promotes the work of religious peacebuilders in the U.S. Learn more here.
World Faith engages religiously diverse youth to lead development projects in their community. Its website explicitly invites youth to join chapters/projects or start them. Learn more here.

Storytelling and Journalism:

The Horizons Project’s Narrative Engagement Across Difference Project is a unique consortium of actors—organizers, philanthropists, and academics—who have come together to gather insights into collaboration across difference in the deeply divided contexts of rising authoritarianism, declining democracies, and restricted civic space. Learn more here.
The International Storytelling Center is a premiere educational, arts, and cultural institution dedicated to enriching lives and building a better world through the power of storytelling. Its work falls broadly into three categories: performance, preservation, and practice. Learn more here.
Military Veterans in Journalism is a professional association that seeks to increase the number of veterans in newsrooms. Additionally, the organization builds a community for veterans and provides mentorship to support their career growth. Learn more here.
Making Peace Visible is a bridge-building organization igniting powerful conversations all over the world about how the media covers peace and conflict. Learn more here.
The Center for Media and Peace Initiatives (CMPI) is an organization dedicated to the promotion of conflict-resolving media practices and better policy around the world. CMPI seeks to foster critical journalism devoted to peace building and holding practitioners accountable for ethical journalism. Learn more here.