Schools & Colleges
Middle schools, high schools, colleges, universities, student organizations, and after-school programs.
Partnership Is Central to Stewardship
Conflict literacy cannot be cultivated by one person, one organization, or one professional discipline alone.
The Mediation Stewardship Project welcomes collaboration with institutions and community leaders committed to communication, education, youth development, peacebuilding, leadership, and constructive conflict engagement.
Partnerships may involve workshops, youth programming, public education, referrals, shared events, research, outreach, resource development, sponsorship, or other forms of mission-aligned collaboration.
Potential Community Partners
Nonprofit Organizations
Community organizations, youth programs, housing providers, family-serving agencies, and neighborhood initiatives.
Faith Communities
Churches and faith-based organizations seeking education in listening, leadership, communication, and conflict.
Businesses & Professionals
Businesses, law firms, employers, healthcare organizations, professional associations, and organizational leaders.
Mediators & Educators
Mediators, facilitators, teachers, trainers, researchers, conflict professionals, and community educators.
Peacebuilding Initiatives
Movements and organizations working to reduce violence, strengthen neighborhoods, and support community dialogue.
Ways to Collaborate
Program Collaboration
- Host a Conflict Literacy Workshop
- Develop youth programming
- Collaborate on a public presentation
- Organize a community conversation
- Develop educational resources
- Support research or evaluation
Community Infrastructure
- Become a referral partner
- Share professional expertise
- Provide meeting or event space
- Support public outreach
- Contribute technology or materials
- Help identify community needs
Sponsorship & Community Investment
Sponsorship can help make workshops, youth programming, educational materials, public events, and conflict-support resources accessible to communities that might not otherwise have access.
Sponsor a Workshop
Underwrite free or reduced-cost programming for a school, nonprofit, church, neighborhood, or community group.
Support Youth Programming
Help bring conflict-literacy education to students, youth organizations, and emerging leaders.
Support the Conflict Support Line
Contribute to outreach, telephone infrastructure, referral development, and public access.
Fund Educational Resources
Support guides, handouts, videos, research summaries, workshop materials, and public education.
Sponsor Community Events
Help support forums, public conversations, presentations, workshops, and peacebuilding activities.
Provide In-Kind Support
Contribute printing, technology, venues, transportation, refreshments, media, or professional services.
Current Partners & Collaborators
Partnership Directory in Development
As formal relationships develop, this section will recognize participating schools, community organizations, sponsors, referral partners, professional collaborators, and peacebuilding initiatives.
How Partnership Begins
Share Your Interest
Identify your organization, community, area of interest, available resources, or proposed collaboration.
Explore Alignment
We discuss shared goals, community needs, responsibilities, possible programming, and the appropriate relationship.
Define the Collaboration
Appropriate next steps, expectations, scheduling, sponsorship, referrals, or project responsibilities are documented before work begins.
Build With the Mediation Stewardship Project
Explore a partnership, sponsor public programming, become a referral resource, contribute professional expertise, or help bring conflict literacy into your community.