The Bridge Alliance exists to upgrade our democratic republic. Our members agree to adhere to The Five Principles and are part of a broad coalition dedicated to engaging citizens in the political process, working with our civic leaders to face tough challenges, and promoting respectful, civil discourse.
Organizations working to foster unity and understanding among diverse groups, transcending political and social differences.
Organizations promoting informed and engaged citizenship, teaching people about government, rights, and civic responsibilities.
Organizations working toward changes in election & governance systems that enhance fairness, access, and accountability in our system.
Organizations promoting transparency and combating disinformation, and supporting solutions journalism for an informed public.
The Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact brings the mission of 92nd Street Y to the world. We believe that when voices are heard, communities are connected and ideas are nurtured from the ground up, movements can grow and real change can begin.
America Indivisible is a coalition effort to address bigotry against members of Muslim communities and those who appear to be Muslim from Black, Arab, Sikh, and South Asian American communities by reinforcing the American values of equality, pluralism, and strength through diversity.
For those willing to take individual action to improve their community, American Public Square offers the opportunity to return to the notion of a true “public square”—where neighbors, colleagues and friends can personally engage in thoughtful, fact-based dialogue about controversial and potentially polarizing issues facing our society.
Americans who value family, tradition, and integrity have been abandoned by both major political parties and ignored by most of the media. American Values Coalition provides shelter for to the politically homeless by reconnecting them to a fact-based national narrative in order to prevent radicalization and restore democratic norms in America.
BridgeUSA believes that sustained dialogue through policy-based forums, guest speakers, roundtable negotiations, rapid prototyping, and other active listening and communication events can foster positive change in millennial's political discourse.
In order to create a more caring and cooperative world, Care Lab is building a resilient, bipartisan core of leaders on Capitol Hill and beyond. Using the science of care, belonging, conflict management, and de-polarization, we create safe spaces for difficult conversations across party, class, race, and gender lines.
Civic Genius has big goals: to increase civic engagement; improve the quality of political discourse; highlight real-world stories of people working together across political lines; and forge moderate, commonsense solutions to our biggest challenges.
Civic Health Project is dedicated to reducing affective polarization and creating healthier civil discourse in our citizenry, politics, and media. We promote research and interventions that target affective polarization’s causes and identify promising remedies.
Civity supports leaders and community organizations on the ground who recognize first-hand the need for creating a culture and building institutions in which everyone belongs.
Common Ground Committee brings healing to the national challenges of polarization and incivility, inspiring and motivating the public to find common ground. They do this by demonstrating how influential people of opposing views can find agreement without compromising core values. They provide innovative content and tools that empower individuals, and consequently their political leaders to do the same.
Divided We Fall® is a non-profit news publication producing bipartisan dialogue for the politically engaged. They publish debates between individuals who disagree in order to demonstrate productive civil discourse and bipartisanship.
Essential Partners invites us each to discover and re-discover the core of who we are and what we value. Grounded in our own truth, we can find both the courage and the generosity to listen to those we have considered our enemies.
The mission of Fighting To Understand is to make seemingly complicated topics into “simply complicated.” They do this by forming a collaborative cross-section of “regular” people to fight to understand a topic, in as much complexity as they can muster. They then present the findings to other regular people.
In an increasingly complex and interconnected world, we help leaders improve their Empathic Intelligence, build cultures of empathy, and play a leading role in the creation of redemptive solutions with others.
Our Mission is to connect and empower America's silenced majority of 98M-plus, in hope-based campaigns to reclaim democracy, end toxic polarization, and tackle every challenge we face, beginning with climate change.
The Interactivity Foundation works to engage citizens in the exploration and development of divergent possibilities for public policy through small group discussions.
Internews Interactive (InterAct) and its Digital Citizen project, are pioneers in citizen engagement media since 1998. InterAct is a strategic partner in innovative media design for television and the Internet.
Listen First Project encourages conversations that prioritize understanding to bridge divides and mend our frayed social fabric. We catalyze the Listen First movement powered by more than 100 partner organizations, thousands of individuals, local chapters, and the National Conversation Project.
Living Room Conversations enable people to come together through their social networks as friends to engage in a self-guided conversation about an agreed-upon topic. Typically conversations have self-identified co-hosts who hold differing views.
Mediators Foundation's mission is to foster global leadership for a peaceful, just and sustainable world by identifying, supporting and connecting visionary leaders promoting the best interests of our small planet through civic and educational projects
Meetings of Opposites produces the actual experience of common ground among people whose opinions or positions are irreconcilable. Meetings of Opposites is the scaffolding for common ground.
Mormon Women for Ethical Government's mission is to inspire women of faith to be ambassadors of peace who transcend partisanship and courageously advocate for ethical government.
NICD supports a congress and executive branch capable of working to solve the big issues facing our country, a media that informs and engages our citizens, and demands civil discourse and a government that works in the best interests of the country as a whole.
Their network of professional and passionate Resolutionaries aim to encourage people to stop fighting over political problems and starting working together towards resolutions.
The Horizons Project works to strengthen relationships and collaboration within the ecosystem of social change to spur a larger movement in the United States that addresses systemic injustice, advances societal healing, and reimagines our democracy.
The Ministerium is a new diverse group of Indiana clergy who are concerned about fairness. We work together to bring about social justice for those marginalized and in need of help and hope.
The Village Square grows vibrant civil discourse across the partisan divide by building relationships across political, cultural, racial and religious divides among citizens inside their community and has expanded to six cities across America.
Unify America creates interactive experiences to help people bust out of their bubbles, build civic muscles, and work together to tackle our country’s biggest challenges.
The US Values Alliance works to promote the use of values to create a healthier society. They share tools and resources for people just getting started with values. They also convene people interested in improving the methodologies and language around values work.
The Center for the Political Future (CPF) combines rigorous intellectual inquiry, teaching, and practical politics to advance civil dialogue and research that transcends partisan divisions and finds solutions to pressing national and global challenges.
A More Perfect Union: The Jewish Partnership for Democracy exists to build and support a robust, well-resourced, transpartisan Jewish coalition working together to strengthen democracy.
The American Democracy Project (ADP) is a network of more than 260 state colleges and universities focused on public higher education’s role in preparing the next generation of informed, engaged citizens for our democracy.
The American Studies Program (ASP) utilizes Washington, D.C. as its primary classroom. ASP brings together students from around the globe, spanning a vast array of majors, experiences, and perspectives. ASP emphasizes the importance of Christ-like bridge-building within the political arena.
The Center for New Democratic Processes is a nonpartisan civic engagement and policy research organization whose mission is to strengthen democracy by partnering with individuals, communities, and institutions to design and implement informed, innovative, and democratic processes to address today’s toughest challenges.
Civics Unplugged is a 501(c)(3) social enterprise whose mission is to empower the leaders of Generation Z to build the future of American democracy.
College to Congress (C2C) creates pathways for high-achieving college juniors, seniors, graduate students, and recent graduates to intern in Congress. Through our comprehensive program, we aim to disrupt the traditional pipeline of solely wealthy and connected people filling positions of power in the United States Congress.
Forum for Democracy USA LLC (FFD) is a mission-driven, Constitution-based, non-partisan EdTech civics program designed to empower high school students to advance positive change and social justice, and embrace diversity and inclusion through civil discourse and civic engagement.
GenUnity supports passionate, proximate adults to connect across difference, unpack local issues, and drive positive systems change in their communities.
Guides.vote produces nonpartisan voters guides that show where candidates stand. They’re produced by veteran journalists with links to credible sources.
iCivics exists to engage students in meaningful civic learning. We provide civics teachers well-written, inventive, and free resources that enhance their practice and inspire their classrooms, ensuring every student receives a high-quality civic education.
We at the Institute for Community Solutions are changemakers, policymakers, researchers, and writers who believe that the best solutions to community problems come from the community themselves. We are dedicated to finding community solutions to community problems.
IssueVoter’s mission is to give everyone an equal voice in our democracy by making civic engagement accessible, efficient, and impactful.
The National Civic League seeks to advance civic engagement to create equitable, thriving communities. We achieve this by supporting and recognizing inclusive approaches to community decision-making and through community assistance, awards and events, and research and publications.
Up to Us is dedicated to building a sustainable economic and fiscal future for America’s next generation. Up to Us doesn’t just educate and engage - it empowers. Our unique program provides emerging leaders a platform for facilitating a collaborative dialogue on the country’s most vexing challenges.
The Youth Leadership Initiative, a program of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, develops free education resources designed to assist civics teachers, and encourage students to participate in the political process.
American Promise is a strategic, inter-partisan organization designed to win the 28th Amendment to the Constitution so that people - not money, not corporations, not special interests - govern America
We’re a nonpartisan network of business leaders advancing policy and technology solutions to strengthen democracy and modernize government. A healthy representative democracy will help build a more competitive, innovative business climate in America.
Cities of Service is a nonprofit organization that helps mayors build stronger cities by changing the way local government and citizens work together. Our coalition cities tap into citizen insights, skills, and service to identify and solve critical public problems.
CMF revitalizes Congress as an institution, working inside and outside Congress to foster a deliberative, functioning, and accountable legislature. Their work helps Congress and the people they represent engage in a constructive and inclusive dialogue toward a thriving American democracy
The founding members of Election Reformers Network have worked to support hundreds of election processes in scores of countries over a thirty-year period. Our work focuses on supporting the range of institutions critical to democracy including civic organizations, political parties, election administration and legislative bodies.
Fix Democracy First focuses on reforms intended to strengthen democracy in Washington State and nationally, that include campaign finance reform, public funding of elections, ranked choice voting, reversing Citizens United, expanding voting access, and increasing civic participation.
Healthy Democracy is a nonpartisan non-profit organization that works to elevate the voices of everyday people, bring new faces to public decision making, and design a more collaborative democracy together.
Issue One is the leading crosspartisan political reform group in Washington, D.C. We unite Republicans, Democrats, and independents in the movement to fix our broken political system. Issue One’s ReFormer’s Caucus of more than 200 former members of Congress, governors, and Cabinet officials is the largest coalition of its kind ever assembled to advocate for political reform.
Our core principles of democracy – from the checks and balances of leadership to freedom of the press – must be relentlessly defended. Ending gerrymandering, ensuring voter access, and pursuing campaign finance reform are examples of essential changes needed to renew our democracy.
Since 1938, NFWL has served as a forum for elected women from across the country to be empowered through information and experience. We are the oldest organization for elected women in America and the ONLY one that includes women on the city, county and state levels.
RepresentWomen champions and advances adoption of evidence-based solutions that break down structural barriers to women’s political leadership. We are committed to building a 21st century democracy in the United States, with gender balance in elected and appointed positions, at every level of government. We believe having diverse women in government is a catalyst to a stronger, more equitable nation.
RepresentUs is building a non-partisan movement to pass tough anti-corruption laws in cities and states across America, and end the legalized corruption that has come to define modern politics. Our system should not require people to buy access to their own government.
Team Democracy (aka Rally for Democracy) is a nonpartisan initiative promoting the Safe and Fair Election Pledge. Candidates, incumbents, voters and corporations are urged to make a personal commitment to enhancing our national security by strengthening the most important guardrails of our democracy: safe, fair and accessible elections, and the peaceful transfer of power.
Unite America is a movement of Democrats, Republicans, and independents working to put voters first by fostering a more representative and functional government. They invest in campaigns to enact reforms and elect candidates so that the right leaders have the right incentives to solve our country's greatest problems.
Veterans For All Voters' mission to build and mobilize a community of military veterans to advocate for election innovations that unlock competition, make our politics less toxic and our government more effective.
ActiVote is a nonpartisan app to help every American stay engaged, informed & inspired for their democracy. Never miss an election, stay up to date on legislation and learn about public policy in a way that depolarizes us!
AllSides delivers technology and services to provide multiple perspectives on news, issues, and topics - and the people behind the ideas because the way society gets its news and information affects the world around us
Ballotpedia is the digital encyclopedia of American politics and elections. Our goal is to inform people about politics by providing accurate and objective information about politics at all levels of government.
We make it easy to find bills and then share them. We strive to make complicated legislative information as accessible as possible. Search results from all states and Congress are presented in an easy-to-understand grid that includes links to more detailed information. We present bills in the same format across all states. We also provide full contact details for all current legislators to encourage citizens to get involved.
We listen carefully to our clients, working with them to produce podcasts that are soulful, spontaneous and intimate. We provide media training, advice about podcasting, sound design, and first-rate editing services. Above all we are supportive and honest with our advice.
The Fulcrum is a platform where insiders and outsiders to politics are informed, meet, talk, and act to repair our democracy and make it live and work in our everyday lives.
As an organization, NFRPP is committed to credible information, which includes reliable data, facts, research, analyses, and critical thinking. We invite our audiences to engage, ask questions, draw their own conclusions, seek more stories, and help to keep our democracy dynamic and viable.
The Sphere Education Initiative is a project of the Cato Institute and empowers grade 5-12 educators and administrators to restore a spirit of civil, fact-based, constructive, and respectful discourse and engagement as the vehicles for discussion and debate. This is done through educational programming and professional development opportunities.
Truth in Accounting believes truthful accounting is the key for citizens, legislators, and the press to clearly understand the truth about government finances. Our work has focused on encouraging public entities to produce financial reports that are comprehensive, clear, and transparent.
Voice Of the People is an organization that seeks to re-anchor our democracy in its founding principles by giving ‘We the People’ a greater role in government. VOP seeks to give the American people a more effective voice in the policymaking process.
Young Voices provides fledgling writers with the guidance needed to succeed during the most critical years of their early career. We do so by acting as a copy editor, agent, and mentor to a roster of pro-liberty writers through our cornerstone Contributors Program.
Note: An organization's membership in the Bridge Alliance is an endorsement of the Five Principles and a statement of intent to uphold them.
It does not constitute an endorsement of the activities of any individual member organization by the Bridge Alliance or its other members.
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