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 CURRENT PROJECTS 1. PHILANTHROPY BRIDGING DIVIDES In mid-November of 2017 a small group of philanthropic leaders gathered at Pocantico, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s conference center, for a confidential conversation about philanthropy’s role during these contentious and divided times. Many of us have had conversations over the course […]

If you take the medicine prescribed by your doctor and your condition only worsens, you know you need a new prescription — and perhaps a different doctor and diagnosis as well.   The same is true when democracy gets sick. I should know: my colleagues and I […]

“Make no mistake: We are a country under attack.” -Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly “The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. It’s easy. Just tell them they are under attack.” -Hermann Goering, Minister of the Third Reich under Adolf Hitler If the […]

It’s not just young revolutionary Bernie Sanders supporters or angry-as-hell Donald Trump fans who want to “change the system.” It’s also the president of the United States of America. The future we want “will only happen if we fix our politics,” said President Obama in his 2016 […]

As a Christian, the Republicans assume they can win my vote; as a Latina woman, granddaughter of Mexican immigrants, the Democrats think they can count on me. They are both wrong. Like so many of my generation, I am living evidence that the red-vs-blue portrait is severely […]

America the Invisible: Anybody Out There? What the Transpartisan Movement Means for Millions of Americans Rebecca Nunziato February 2015 As far as the electorate goes, 2014 was a rough year ““ headlines left and right frantically shouting that it was the lowest turnout since WWII (just 36.4% […]

Mark Gerzon Published by Kosmos, Fall/Winter 2009 Tong Shan University, Zhuhai, China, May 12, 2008 “Why do the people in France hate us?” a second year student, one of almost three hundred seated in the large lecture hall, asked me. “They tried to attack the Olympic torch […]

It was a typical transpartisan moment. “Mark, I’d like to introduce you next week to Mr. X,” said my colleague. She was organizing a meeting with some ad agency executives to help us develop a brand and p.r. strategy for the transpartisan movement. “Great,” I replied. “Mr. […]