Our Vision
Civity envisions a world in which everyone belongs.
We live in a world of haves and have-nots, insiders and outsiders, people who belong and people who are marginalized because mainstream society sees them as other. Our vision is a culture of civity—relationships of respect and empathy with people who are different. Relationships between people are the threads that create the fabric of our society.
This is a change and a challenge, but we have what we need to make it happen.
Our differences are our strengths.
Our Mission
Civity seeks to build relationships across difference to transform communities.
When we create authentic and positive person-to-person connections across difference, we transform our communities into places where everyone knows that they belong.
At Civity, we work with people in communities to spark and sustain this transformation. We support them in creating a relational infrastructure that grows from a civity culture and grounds institutional and structural change.
Civity’s work is grounded in decades of research, and we are committed to an evidence-based approach. We are also active contributors, operating at the intersection of practice and research, to the collective enterprise of growing understanding of how to enable communities to thrive.
“The challenge is
in the moment;
the time is always now.”
– James Baldwin