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At my good friend’s World Cup watch party in Los Angeles a few weeks ago, I noticed Mexican jerseys everywhere. I couldn’t stop thinking about that. Mexico and L.A., sure that part makes sense considering the relationship to the country and the city. On the television in front of us, Mexico was playing South Korea...

For more than 15 years, Adrienne Evans has organized in some of the most politically conservative, rural communities in the United States. Through her work with United Vision for Idaho and the United Vision Project, she's helped facilitate over 100...

What if the most radical idea in the world is simply that everyone belongs? In this episode of the If You Were in Charge podcast, host Sanam Naraghi Anderlini sits down with john a. powell for a wide-ranging discussion touching on his family upbringing, fears driving people to the right, popular defense of immigrants in Minnesota, public spaces as infrastructure for belonging, mental health, and more.

The 2025 Supreme Court term ended last week with several landmark decisions that will shape, reshape and continue to affect our politics, our culture, and the health of our society. After his re-election in 2024, the Trump team promised to overwhelm...

Through the Bridging and Belonging Fellowship, community leaders are using bridging to reshape systems, relationships, and what becomes possible in their city.

Around the world, communities and organizations are developing strategies to confront the weaponization of gender and build a future rooted in belonging and pluralistic democracy. In this series of conversations, we speak with individuals and groups at the forefront of this work.

Some of the most important work happening today rarely makes headlines. This annual report captures how, in 2025, we pursued our vision to ensure that every person and community has the power to help shape the structures that shape their lives.

What does it mean to gather in a moment like this? To sit in a room—shoulder to shoulder with strangers—and feel, even briefly, that you are not alone. For faculty from UC Berkeley like Eric Stanley, that question is no longer abstract.

In Washington, an emerging “network of networks” is working across sectors to rebuild trust, civic connection, and create systems where more people feel they truly belong

Leo Murrieta, Make the Road Nevada’s Outgoing Executive Director, in conversation with Mansi Kathuria and Joshua Clark Make the Road Nevada is a statewide, member-led nonprofit organization that builds the power of Latine, immigrant, and working...

Read the fourth piece in the Blueprint for Belonging paper series, "New Organizing Strategies for California’s Future," featuring Miguel Hernandez of the OCCCO, a faith-rooted, community-led organization in Orange County focused on developing everyday leaders to organize for systemic change.

The Denver Foundation leaders talk about their effort to connect Colorado residents through Belonging Colorado, a long-term initiative that aims to bring residents together to strengthen communities and work across differences.

Never before have as many countries simultaneously been in the midst of the systematic undermining of institutions and rights, what scholars call “democratic backsliding.” Last year marked 25 years of democratic decline globally. Wherever anti...

OBI’s Places of Belonging program supports community efforts to rebuild trust, share power, and create systems where everyone belongs.

How can the adults entrusted with youth care — parents, educators, coaches, librarians, community leaders, and policymakers — ensure that young people feel a sense of belonging in their daily lives? This study seeks to expand the adoption of belonging design in youth-serving institutions by centering young people as insightful and creative architects of their own world.