Cohesion Strategy

The diversity of the United States — demographic, religious, ideological — is both an asset and a challenge.

Diversity challenges us to understand and balance an incredible array of experiences and viewpoints; it necessarily produces conflict. If that conflict is not well-managed, communities become exclusionary or conflict escalates into hate crimes, high polarization, and political violence. 

​But conflict can also be productive; it can empower collaboration and authentic solutions around shared priorities such as religious freedom and racial justice. Societies don’t cohere by force. A community, like a murmuration, sticks together when each member finds more joy in it than sorrow. Creating that dynamic is collective work.

Cohesion Strategy partners with nonprofit and philanthropic organizations working toward bridgebuilding, pluralism, and belonging. Together, we can shape diverse communities built on meaningful relationships, strategic collaboration, and productive conflict.