The Convergence Project
"Coming together for a greater good"

While technology has linked the world more closely together, the human race has become ever more divided and increasingly polarized, right down to the very communities in which we all live. Political ideology tears at our cohesiveness, religious differences threaten us at the most fundamental level, and deeply ingrained values and beliefs make it harder to find common ground. The Convergence Project is an international 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that is community-based and brings dissimilar groups together to identify and complete common ground projects that benefit the greater community in which they are based.

What we believe: We believe that people are more alike than different and that people of differing values, beliefs, and ideas can work more strongly together in their community than by working alone.

Video Message from TCP's Founder, Brock Oyler

What we do: We facilitate and support the coming together of diverse or opposing groups to work in an ideology-free setting in order to accomplish projects that benefit the groups involved and their greater community.

For our purposes, we define a group as any collection of 3 or more people. They may be civic organizations, social clubs, for-profit organizations, or non-profit organizations and all are free to partner in any combination that they choose. Common ground is defined as the area in which both groups are already in agreement.

Our work is supported by research and is evidence-based. Read more about this on our How We Work page.

The Convergence Project was originated and conceived of by Brock Oyler, a Colorado native who has lived and worked in a number of communities and now calls Colorado home again. Brock has an M.A. in organizational communication from Purdue University and has a background in training and development and conflict management.

The Convergence Project is incorporated in the state of Colorado as a non-profit and a 501 (c)(3) organization, a determination required by US Internal Revenue Code to be tax exempt and to be an organization to which tax exempt donations may be made.

Read what people are saying about The Convergence Project. Read what people are saying about the common ground approach - Sojourners Magazine - June 2009 - Bridge Over Troubled Waters by Julie Polter. The Convergence Project is part of President Obama's United We Serve effort.

The Convergence Project staff eventually hopes to be able to communicate in a variety of languages, but presently we are English speaking. See our website translated by Googlebot. Spanish - El proyecto de convergencia French - Le projet de convergence German - Die Konvergenz-Projekt Italian - Il progetto di convergenza Chinese - simplified - 的趋同项目