seven evidence-based strategies that can guide community leaders, stakeholders, and individuals to foster greater connection across lines of difference in their communities. Strategies include: • Provide more opportunities for connection • Increase the perception that connecting across difference is the “community norm” • Foster feelings of local c... See more

Americans, on average, are most interested in working across lines of difference to achieve a mutual goal that improves their community (compared to other types of bridging activities).

The upsides to this generation’s fluidity are many; however, a desire to engage in politics is usually not among them. With a diminished sense of roots, of national belonging, Bianca saw that her peers were even less incentivised to get involved in traditional parties – but also that a deep need and equally deep potential for involvement in somethi

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