Braver Network
Braver Network is a network of organizations across the political spectrum working together to bridge the partisan divide. We’re committed to equal representation of reds and blues in the network, strong representation of independents and non-partisan groups, and a mix of national and community organizations. Our goal is national civic renewal.
It is 100% free to join. There are no required meetings. The only requirements are that you designate someone from your team to serve as a liaison to the network and that you list your organization as part of the growing network below. We’ll then invite you to tap delegates to send to our annual National Convention in the summer of 2024. The rest is up to you.
Check out the First Principles of a Civic Renewal Movement, ratified by delegates at the 2023 Braver Angels Convention.
How We Can Work Together
- Send members to our workshops, debates, and seminars to become more effective citizens and colleagues.
- Tap key leaders to join our leadership trainings and learn how to organize and facilitate events in your own organization and community.
- Bring your organization's unique strengths to the table to help chart the course of this movement.
- Designate delegates to our annual National Convention (summer 2024), where they can connect with other organizations to help shape the movement Platform and Call to Action.
Meet the Braver Network
BridgeUSA
Honorary Co-Chair
Institute for Local Government
Honorary Co-Chair
StoryCorps
Honorary Co-Chair
- 2nd Look News
- 4th Congressional District Democratic Party
- A More Pefect Union: The Jewish Partnership for Democracy
- Activote
- Acton Institute
- AlgEternal Technologies, LLC
- Alliance for Shared Values
- American Conservation Coalition
- American Council of Trustees and Alumni
- American Exchange Project
- American Purpose
- American Security Project
- American Solidarity Chapter -- Utah State Chapter
- American's for Prosperity - Arkansas
- Americas Future, Southeast Hub
- Ames Public Library
- Annapolis Friend's Meeting
- Arete
- Arkansas Forward Party
- Asheville Ideas Fest
- Asian Industry B2B
- ASQ Government Division
- Assemble America
- Association of Idaho Cities
- Augustana University
- Barbie's Peace in Our Time
- Better Cities Project
- Binghamton University Center for Civic Engagement
- Bipartisan Cafe
- Bipartisan Leadership Project
- Black Opportunities, Inc.
- Boileau & Co.
- Bridge USA
- Bridging Divides - El Dorado
- Californians for Equal Rights Foundation
- Campaign for an Informed Citizenry
- Carter Center
- Cascading Strategies
- Caster Concepts
- Center for Healthy Churches
- Center for Intersectional Media & Entertainment (CIME)
- Central Presbyterian Church - Chambersburg, PA
- Choralosophy
- Church of the Nativity, Raleigh
- Citizens Climate Lobby
- City of Jackson, TN
- City of Lakewood, CA
- Civic Synergy
- Civity
- Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans
- Cologne Community of Belonging
- Common Ground USA
- Common Sense Party
- Compassionate Listening Project
- Congregation B'nai B'rith, Santa Barbara, CA
- Connecticut Conference of Municipalities
- Connecticut Public
- Consistent Life Network
- Constructive Dialouge Institute
- Convergence Center for Policy Resolution
- ConversationsWithKaty.com
- Cornell Free Speech Alliance
- Cornell University Department of Global Development, Extension
- Cortico
- Council for Christian Colleges & Universities
- CrossWinds Church
- Cultivating Unity
- Cure Global Violence
- DaviesContent Podcast Consultants
- Delaware Community Foundation
- Deliberation Gateway
- Democracy in a Box
- Democracy Without Elections
- Derate the Hate Podcast
- Deseret News
- Difficult Conversations Project
- Dignity Dialouges
- Dispute Resolution Center of Grays Harbor & Pacific Counties
- Durham County Republican Party
- Eisenhower Institute–Gettysburg College
- Elizabethtown College
- Entrusted Foundation
- Envoys
- Equal Vote Coalition
- Equal, A Global Human Initiative, Inc.
- EquaSion
- Faith and Law
- Fighting To Understand
- FIRE
- First Things
- First Unitarian Church of Wilmington
- First United Methodist Church - Prairie Campus, Colorado Springs
- Fix Democracy First
- Focolare Movement
- Former Members of Congress
- Forward Party - Colorado
- Forward Party - Florida
- Forward Party - Illinois
- Forward Party - Maryland
- Forward Party - Nevada
- Forward Party - New York
- Forward Party - North Carolina
- Forward Party - Pennsylvania
- Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism
- Free2Express
- FreedomFest
- Friends Committee on National Legislation
- Georgia Center for Opportunity
- GettingAlong.com
- Gotham Arts
- Granite Bridge Legislative Alliance
- Grassroots Leadership Academy
- Ground News
- Growing Leadership LLC
- Halston Media
- Hearken
- Helena Group Foundation
- Heterodox Academy
- Higher Purpose Forum
- Hispanic Democratic Caucus Manatee
- House United Movement
- How to Heal Our Divides
- Humanergy
- Hyde Park Mennonite Fellowship
- Ideos Institute
- Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
- Institute for Local Government
- Institute on Religion and Democracy
- Interfaith Photovoice
- International Center for Religion & Diplomacy (ICRD)
- Issue One
- Jack Miller Center
- John F. Murphy Homes, Inc.
- Journeymen (Triangle, NC)
- Kansas Leadership Center
- Leadership Council San Mateo County
- Leadership Montana
- LEGECY Foundation
- Let's See Labs
- Life After Hate
- Listen First Project
- Lyceum Labs
- Madison County, TN
- Mainstream Republicans of Washington
- Majority in the Middle
- Meetings of Opposites
- Mejdi Tours
- Millennial Action Project
- Minnesota Women's Press
- MIT Center for Constructive Communication / Cortico
- More in Common
- More Like Us
- More Perfect Union
- Move for America
- MyInfinity
- National History Academy
- National Institute for Civil Discourse
- National Marriage Project
- Neighborhood House
- New Horizon Church, Jackson, Mississippi
- News Literacy Project
- Niskanen Center
- No Labels
- North Carolina Campus Engagement
- Northern California Public Media
- Nuclear New York
- NumbersUSA
- Oklahoma Media Center
- On Being
- One America Movement
- Padnos/Sarosik Center for Civil Discourse
- Parents 4 Peace
- Participatory Science Solutions LLC
- Paulist Productions
- Civity
- PeaceTech and Polarization Lab, Notre Dame
- PeoplePower TV
- Pepperdine School of Public Policy
- Perfect Our Union
- Principles First
- Project Phoenix
- Radiopaper
- Rank the Vote
- Rehumanize International
- Resolution Virginia
- RESOLUTIONARIES
- Resurrection, A United Methodist Church (Kansas City Area)
- Rhizome
- Rossmoor Community Group
- Rotarians for the American Promise
- Rotary District #5960
- Rumi Forum
- Sacramento Action Latin America
- Save Democracy in America
- Seeds of Peace
- Sempra Infrastructure
- SMUD Museum of Science & Curiosity
- SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University
- SNF Ithaca Initiative, University of Delaware
- St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, New London, NH 03257
- St. Matthews Episcopal Church
- Starts with Us
- Stories Change Power
- Story Incubator Writing Lab
- StoryCorps
- Stubblefield Institute for Civil Political Communication
- Tangle News
- Team Democracy
- The Caravan
- The Changemaker Podcast
- The City Club of Cleveland
- The Concord Coalition
- The Flip Side
- The Fund for American Studies
- The Growing Democracy Project
- The Horizons Project (THP)
- The McGovern Center at Dakota Wesleyan University
- The Narrative Method
- The People
- The Progress Network
- The Russell Kirk Center
- The Society Library
- The Sumners Foundation
- The Tennessean / USA TODAY Network Tennessee
- ThoughtStretchers Education Community
- Thread
- Toda Peace Institute
- Traverse Indivisible
- Tripoldi Quality Consulting
- Truth and Democracy Coalition
- Tuolumne County Building Bridges
- Twin Valleys Lutheran Parish
- UNITE
- United Independents
- UnityNow! Podcast
- Urban Rural Action
- Veterans for Political Innovation
- Village Square
- Virginia Commonwealth University - Political Science - Institute for Democracy, Pluralism, and Community Empowerment
- Virginia Military Institute Center for Leadership and Ethics
- Vision Orlando
- Visions, Inc.
- Wake Tech Community College
- Walkers Barber Shop
- Wassmuth Center for Human Rights
- WEAVE
- Westbury Friend's Meeting
- Wilmington College
- With Honor
- Women's Public Leadership Network
- Woodhull Freedom Foundation
- Working on it with Liz
- Young People in Recovery
Braver Network Directory
Frequently Asked Questions
Designate someone who’ll be responsible to be your organization’s liaison with Braver Network.
The liaison is the person within your organization who connects your members to Braver Network. They support the mission of bringing Americans together to understand our differences and seek common ground, and become a member of Braver Angels. They’ll receive digital newsletters outlining upcoming opportunities and, after the Braver Angels 2023 Convention, may be invited to attend periodic, one-hour, online gatherings to share information and discuss key topics.
For anyone joining Braver Angels, we ask you (if you’re agreeable) to indicate to us your overall political leaning. For Braver Network, we want a group of liaisons that’s politically balanced, with about half leaning red and about half leaning blue. Political balance is vital to our mission.
Yes. There are opportunities for work tailored to your organization’s needs.
Braver Angels.
Working with other groups to build a national movement for civic renewal advances Braver Angels’ mission.
Participation is entirely voluntary and can be ended at any time.