Lubetzky Family Foundation

Starts with us is a movement to counter the extreme social and political divisions seen across American society by fostering independent thinking and constructive communication across lines of difference. Starts with us leverages media and technology to scale the daily practice of its core values -- curiosity, compassion, and courage providing americans with content, tools, and exercises to help tackle community problems and improve society.the program's activities included social media programming that develops and distributes short videos of human stories, news media and educational content to foster flexible thinking and constructive problem solving; convening discussion groups of citizens with widely differing views on divisive issues, facilitating their attempts to reach consensus on those issues and publicizing the results in order to demonstrate to the public that consensus and cooperation are possible.