Field Building Initiatives
For decades, Mediators Foundation has been a trusted convener and catalyst in the bridge-building ecosystem. A key part of our mission is to elevate and support initiatives that deliver unique and lasting value to the common good.
As the field has evolved, we've recognized that certain systemic gaps remain unaddressed- areas where existing efforts fall short and where Mediators Foundation, given our experience and positioning, can play a pivotal role. In such cases, we don’t just offer fiscal sponsorship; we proactively launch and host collaborative field-building initiatives designed to strengthen the overall infrastructure of the field.
These initiatives go beyond addressing single-issue challenges. Instead, they aim to create foundational assets—tools, networks, or frameworks that improve coordination, boost capacity, and increase the effectiveness of bridge-building efforts across the board. They are developed in close partnership with field leaders and allied organizations, and Mediators Foundation takes an active role in their design, development, and implementation.
Current Field Building Initiatives
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Better Together America is a nation-wide, nonpartisan support network of local, regional, and state “Civic Hubs.” These civic hubs are helping build community resilience and civic capacity, enabling communities across the country to work together to solve their biggest challenges and ensure government institutions and elected leaders are accountable and fairly elected. By connecting and accelerating these place-based, collective impact efforts across the country, we are empowering communities to reimagine democracy from the ground up. This project by a collaborative group of leaders in the field, which formed around a shared recognition that local organizations and efforts could create greater impact by replacing siloes and silver bullet approaches with community-centered, collective action.
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The Civic Exchange is a collaborative fundraising campaign designed to address one of the most persistent and widespread challenges facing the bridge-building sector: chronic underresourcing. The Civic Exchange is free to use and offers a creative and collaborative approach to mobilizing funds by blending gamified, peer-to-peer, and crowdfunding strategies with larger donor matching opportunities. The Civic Exchange is structured to engage both national and local partners, inviting broad participation in a shared effort to democratize and strengthen the sector’s financial foundation.
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Investors for a Better America is a nonpartisan, invitation-only gathering of leading investors, family offices, and foundations committed to strengthening the civic foundations that underpin long-term economic prosperity. Through candid conversations with prominent investment leaders, participants explore how investors can help reduce polarization, strengthen democratic institutions, and foster effective governance—creating the conditions for innovation, stable markets, and broad-based wealth creation. The conference, which will be on September 3, 2026 convenes leaders from across the political spectrum to identify practical, investor-driven solutions that support both a thriving economy and a healthy constitutional democracy.