Gathering Neighbors, Growing Trust

Our Mission

Gathering Neighbors, Growing Trust

We bring communities together.

    • Face-to-face relationships foster familiarity, understanding, and respect.
    • Shared meals, human conversations, and service projects nurture a shared vision for a thriving community.
    • Media that inspires
    • Public leadership and civic partnerships for the common good
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Our Vision

Communities where everyone belongs and can work together – So that all can thrive.

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Who does PTU work with?

A thriving pluralistic democracy depends on collaboration between people of all walks of life. Civic engagement begins in our neighborhoods and fans out into ever wider circles of participation.

    • PTU strengthens the foundation of civic life by building face-to-face relationships between local community groups, including wisdom traditions, nonprofits, service organizations, cultural clubs, and others.
    • We work with formal and informal leaders who want to build trust and collaborate with each other across lines of difference. These role models invite more and more people from their communities into group-to-group relationships.
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From Our Blog

When Our Double Mind Turns Deadly

January 8, 2026

Our founding documents say that all people are created equal and born with rights that cannot be taken away—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I believe that. But those same documents denied the full humanity of women, Indigenous people, and Black people. From the beginning, we told ourselves two stories at once: All people…