Diverse hands resting together on a warm wooden table — rabbi, imam, and pastor in dialogue

Interfaith Dialogue Initiative

#WeGatherAnyway.

When hate crimes fracture a community, we bring rabbis, imams, and pastors to the same table. Not to agree — to finally speak, and listen.

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147

Dialogue Circles

held since 2019

Cities

across 22 states

94%

Return Rate

participants come back

Pittsburgh, PA · 2019·El Paso, TX · 2020·Atlanta, GA · 2021·Buffalo, NY · 2022·Colorado Springs, CO · 2022·Nashville, TN · 2023·Lewiston, ME · 2023·Kansas City, MO · 2024·Chapel Hill, NC · 2024·Dearborn, MI · 2025·Pittsburgh, PA · 2019·El Paso, TX · 2020·Atlanta, GA · 2021·Buffalo, NY · 2022·Colorado Springs, CO · 2022·Nashville, TN · 2023·Lewiston, ME · 2023·Kansas City, MO · 2024·Chapel Hill, NC · 2024·Dearborn, MI · 2025·

01 / Voices from the Circle

They came broken.
They left changed.

Rabbi Miriam Goldstein, a woman in her 60s with silver hair and kind eyes

Jewish

I walked in ready to defend my congregation. I walked out holding the hand of a man I'd called an enemy for thirty years. That table changed what I thought was possible.

Rabbi Miriam Goldstein

Congregation Beth Shalom, Pittsburgh

Imam Yusuf Al-Rashid, a man in his 50s with a beard, wearing traditional dress

Muslim

After the mosque shooting, I had no words for my community. The Gather circle gave us a room where grief didn't have to be explained — it was simply witnessed. By people who had also lost.

Imam Yusuf Al-Rashid

Islamic Center of Greater Atlanta

Reverend Claudette Moreau, a Black woman in her 50s with reading glasses and a warm smile

Christian

My bishop told me not to go. Said it would confuse my flock. I went anyway. And I came back knowing that the hardest sermon I ever preached — about our shared complicity in silence — was the truest thing I've said in forty years of ministry.

Rev. Claudette Moreau

First Baptist Church, Buffalo

02 / Our Reach

The work is quiet.
The impact is not.

Every circle begins with three faith leaders who have never been in the same room. What happens over six sessions cannot be quantified — but some of it can.

147

Dialogue Circles

Facilitated in the aftermath of hate crimes, mass shootings, and community fractures

412

Faith Leaders

Rabbis, imams, pastors, and chaplains who have sat at the table

Cities

Across 22 states, from rural parishes to urban mosques

6,200+

Congregation Members

Who attended open healing sessions led by their circle participants

Faith leaders seated around a wooden table in quiet conversation

Diverse group of community members gathered in a circle, hands joined

Candles lit on a memorial table surrounded by flowers and written notes

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03 / Fund the Work

Fund the Next Circle.

Every dollar goes directly to the table — travel, facilitation, and the space itself. No overhead theater.

Six sessions, three faith leaders, one community healed.

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Gather is a registered 501(c)(3). Your donation is fully tax-deductible.

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04 / Bring It Home

Bring a Dialogue
to Your Community.

You don't need a crisis to begin. Many of our most powerful circles happen before the next incident — when communities choose to know each other while there is still calm in which to try.

Chaplains at universities after campus incidents

City officials managing intergroup tensions

Congregation leaders seeking proactive partnership

Grief counselors working with bereaved communities

A facilitator standing at the head of a circle of seated faith leaders in a warmly lit room

Facilitation Timeline

First circle can be convened within 3–4 weeks of inquiry

#WeGatherAnyway.

They came broken.They left changed.

The work is quiet.The impact is not.

Fund the Next Circle.

Bring a Dialogueto Your Community.

Start the conversation.

They came broken.
They left changed.

The work is quiet.
The impact is not.

Bring a Dialogue
to Your Community.