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Across the country, people are being asked to engage in civic life, but they are rarely genuinely listened to. Public input is often collected through surveys, comment periods, or town halls that favor speed, volume, or conflict over depth and understanding. Social media amplifies division. Many institutions lack the capacity to listen carefully across differences at scale.
The result is a widening gap between lived experience and public decision-making. The American Conversation Project (ACP) responds to this gap by rebuilding a foundational civic skill: the ability to listen carefully, collectively, and with integrity at scale.
What does America mean to you today, and what do you hope it can become?
How We Are Igniting Change
Through small-group conversations hosted by trusted local organizations—leveraging tools and processes to capture insights and storytelling at scale—the project will elevate the voices of everyday Americans to better understand how we strengthen our communities and our country.
ACP is designed to support thousands of community-led conversations across all 50 states, engage tens of thousands of participants through trusted local institutions, and produce localized insight reports alongside national synthesis.
This combination of local depth and national coordination positions ACP to become one of the most visible and credible civic listening efforts of its time.
How it Works
- We train local partners to facilitate small-group conversations.
- Conversations are hosted in homes, workplaces, campuses, and community spaces.
- Guided prompts support open listening and storytelling.
- With permission, conversations are recorded and themes are gathered.
- Insights are shared to help illuminate what Americans hope for our future.
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