People Want to Connect Across Differences – Let's Help Them

The Connection Opportunity surveyed 6000 Americans about bridging across lines of difference.

Bridging our differences- particularly political, religious, socioeconomic and racial identity groups — is a major component of restitching our frayed in social fabric.

The work of bridging happens best within our place-based communities. This is where we interact with others in real life and build the bottom-up muscle memory for a pluralistic democracy.

Bridging is the complement to connecting, or building strong social networks within our communities of place. Ideally, connecting also bridges identity groups. But anywhere we are building relationships and shared place-based identities is a step in the right direction.