Essential Partners Information

Founded in 1989, Essential Partners helps people build relationships across differences to address their communities’ most pressing challenges. EP’s proven approach helps people live and work better together. Through richer, healthier, more inclusive dialogue, people strengthen relationships while gaining new insight into themselves and each other as well as the problems they face together. The strength of relationships rooted in trust and mutual understanding empowers people to address the most pressing challenges—from partisan polarization and political dysfunction to interfaith conflicts and abortion access—without compromising their deepest values or identities.