1) Education on scientific research for non-academics – We reviewed new scholarly articles that relate to bridging moral divisions and also attempt to distill this research into concrete recommendations that have the most support (e.g. these two recommendations).  We also consulted with organizations to tailor our recommendations to any particular situation.

2) Learning from partner organizations – There are many organizations doing valuable work bringing people together in their community and we seek to learn from their experiences.  We routinely interviewed organizations as to their best practices and share their wisdom with others.  We also helped with program evaluations and the combined qualitative and quantitative evidence from field work serves to also inform our understanding of the research as our best recommendations are supported both by academic studies and field experience.

3) Supporting new research – We published academic articles and collected data that is used by others to understand morality better, with an eye toward work that can specifically help bridge moral divisions.  Our data collection platform, YourMorals.org, collects data from hundreds of thousands of people each year, educating the public while also providing data for numerous moral psychology studies.

Our hope has been to create a loop between researchers and practitioners, which will enable the evolution of effective, evidence based approaches to improving relations across divisions that have a moral dimension.  While we did not bring people together ourselves, we hope that our work can help some number of interested people and organizations bring people together more effectively.