AllSides strengthens our democracy with balanced news, diverse perspectives, and real conversation.
We expose people to information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so they can better understand the world — and each other. Our balanced news coverage, media bias ratings, civil dialogue opportunities, and technology platform are available for everyone and can be integrated by schools, nonprofits, media companies, and more.
Listen First Project encourages conversations that prioritize understanding to bridge divides and mend our frayed social fabric, addressing the universally felt crisis of division and dehumanization across differences.
Better Angels is a citizens’ organization uniting red and blue Americans in a working alliance to depolarize America
We try to understand the other side’s point of view, even if we don’t agree with it
We engage those we disagree with, looking for common ground and ways to work together
We support principles that bring us together rather than divide us
Our members are committed to revitalizing America through civic engagement, governance and policy making, and campaign and election processes.
1. a unique non-debate on America's biggest problems, which are hurtling toward us through space and time at an alarming rate of speed 2. a gathering convened by two people who disagree politically but are willing to mutually acknowledge that the other side may see some real threats more clearly than does one's own side 3. offering more entertainment value than you can possibly have if you only talk to people you agree with 4. motto: "I’ll help you deflect your asteroid, if you help me deflect mine."
Ben Franklin Circles
Transform your life, transform your world.
Bringing people together, face-to-face, to improve ourselves and the world around us.
Civic Dinners
We believe meaningful conversation over food can spark real and lasting change. That’s why we make it easy for anyone, anywhere, to bring people together for conversations that matter.
Civil Politics
Educating the Public on Evidence-based methods for improving inter-group civility.
CivXNow
Recognizing that preparing our youth to assume the responsibilities and understand their rights as active participants in the civic life of this great nation is essential to the health of our Republic, the CivXNow Coalition pledges to help every school in the nation fulfill its historic and vital civic mission. We pledge to ensure that every young person acquires the civic knowledge, skills, and behaviors necessary for informed and authentic civic engagement.
Civic Spirit educates, inspires, and empowers schools across faith traditions to enhance civic belonging and responsibility in their student, faculty, and parent communities.
Through professional support and student programs, Civic Spirit prepares the next generation to be knowledgeable, ethical, and active participants in the civic life of their community and the political life of our democracy.
We convene individuals and organizations with divergent views to build trust, identify solutions, and form alliances for action on critical national issues.
Our mission is to foster constructive dialogue wherever conflicts are driven by differences of identities, beliefs, and values.
Conversation Cafés are open, hosted conversations in cafés as well as conferences and classrooms—anywhere people gather to make sense of our world. At a Conversation Café there is nothing to join, no homework, no agenda, just a simple process that helps to shift us from small talk to BIG talk, conversations that matter.
Mission: To cut to the chase. To give you facts we know to be true. To show you how we know. To make facts compelling, memorable, creative - and triggers for informed debate and needed solutions.
We’re on a mission to fight spin, noise and cynicism.
Our Mission: Facing History and Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate.
We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding.
Helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world
At the Fetzer Institute, we believe in the possibility of a loving world: a world where we understand we are all part of one human family and know our lives have purpose. In the world we seek, everyone is committed to courageous compassion and bold love—powerful forces for good in the face of fear, anger, division, and despair.
The Independent Voter Project (IVP) is a 501(c)4 organization that seeks to re-engage nonpartisan voters and promote nonpartisan election reform through initiatives, litigation, and voter education. IVP is best known for authoring California's successful nonpartisan primary.
We are a national strategy, communications, and organizing center working to connect and empower the 40% of Americans who identify themselves as independents. Our mission is to develop a movement of independent voters, in partnership with Americans of all persuasions, to reform America’s political process, create unorthodox coalitions and use our democracy to develop our nation.
A Living Room Conversation is a simple way to heal divides.
It is a conversational model developed by dialogue experts in order to facilitate connection between people despite their differences, and even identify areas of common ground and shared understanding.
It is no secret that the results of the 2016 election have highlighted great divides in opinion, whether between family, neighbors, or perfect strangers. In an attempt to build understanding and move forward together, we'd like to invite people to sit down and have dinner. There are many avenues to protest, to donate, to fight, to be heard; Make America Dinner Again is an avenue to listen.
The Millennial Action Project (MAP) is the largest nonpartisan organization of Millennial policymakers in the United States.
We are developing the next generation of leaders to transcend the partisan divide in favor of future-focused solutions and necessary democracy reforms.