Nonprofit Helps People With Differing Views Find Common Ground [philanthropy.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 4/2/214:00 AM

By Glenn Gamboa, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, March 31, 2021

A few years ago, Dave Isay started worrying about America as he saw the middle ground between the political parties vanish into what he calls “disconnection and a vast void.”

“I am not ever concerned about people arguing with each other, because that’s healthy,” Isay said. “But I was concerned with people treating one another with contempt.”

Isay, the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, the winner of six Peabody awards, and the founder of the oral history project StoryCorps, hatched an idea: The surest way to start rebuilding common ground, he decided, was to gather people of differing views and backgrounds to sit down and simply talk to each other.

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