Social Trust and Civic Healing

“America is fractured and living a quiet crisis of disconnection. We have lost our trust in each other and our institutions. Divided, we face uncertainty, social turmoil, and political gridlock. Yet, within every community lies an answer.” -David Brooks

Every community and all things in it must be continuously renewed and reinvented.

Especially today. Our society is divided. There is a sense that people with differing perspectives cannot find common ground and that the very institutions that are meant to serve us no longer work.

The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia has joined a large and rapidly growing grassroots movement to help rebuild social trust across America. Our governments, businesses and communities can only function when people trust each other and act in concert together.

Every individual and institution of renewal has a role to play in the civic healing of our country. We hope you join us in this national effort to help bridge the partisan divide, and in the process, recall our shared humanity and the many values we hold in common.