Community Agreements

We ask all partners of the Jewish Partnership for Democracy to acknowledge these Community Agreements:

  • By joining the Jewish Partnership for Democracy, partners commit to taking action to mobilize and engage American Jews to protect and strengthen democracy. Aligned with one or more of our strategic priorities, partners will create a plan for action (or "commitment") that is meaningful and right-sized for their context to pursue by the end of 2026. The Jewish Partnership for Democracy will provide the space and support to help incubate and implement partners' plans for action.

  • In a collective impact network, partners seek to build relationships, share ideas, pursue opportunities for collaboration, lift up each other’s work, and cultivate curiosity. We know we can achieve more together.

    In practical terms, this means partners:

    • Mobilize their community and resources to act

    • Pursue opportunities to build community, collaborate, share and exchange ideas, and create new possibilities across the network

    • Amplify calls to action, timely messaging, and important opportunities to address mis- or disinformation

    • Celebrate stories of impact to demonstrate the power of Jewish institutions working together to protect and strengthen American democracy

  • We acknowledge that our participation will be undertaken in a spirit of nonpartisanship and will seek to promote a strong, healthy, pluralistic American democracy, not any one particular political party or its desired outcomes. Likewise, we are eager to engage respectfully in a transpartisan network -- a community that is ideologically diverse, civil, and generative.

Please note: The Jewish Partnership for Democracy does not engage in policy advocacy on behalf of its members, though education on relevant policy may be offered. Membership in the network does not imply endorsement of, or alignment with, policy positions of other members or with any or all of the positions A More Perfect Union may take on democracy-related issues.

What is transpartisanship?

We believe that protecting and strengthening American democracy is not a partisan issue.

That's why we pursue our work in a spirit of transpartisanship, which rejects the "us vs. them" mindset that characterizes so many political conversations.

We believe that whatever issues we care about individually – from religious freedom to climate change to fair elections – we all have a stake in American self-governance. Engaging effectively in self-governance requires respect and compromise, and we can only exercise these muscles when we focus on what brings us together rather than what sets us apart.

Ultimately, transpartisanship is both an approach and a commitment – to ourselves, to each other, and to future generations.

Further Reading

  • The Perception Gap from More in Common

    This study explores how Americans tend to have a distorted understanding of people on the other side of the aisle, what causes it, and why it matters for polarization in America.

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  • Transpartisan Coalitions: The Future of Policymaking

    This video from New America challenges the traditional understanding that ideology must dominate all political conversations.

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  • The Belonging Barometer

    This report calls attention to belonging as a critical dimension of life that should matter to all stakeholders who seek to improve America’s physical, social, civic, and democratic well-being.

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