RAFT for America
Reuniting America by Fostering Trust

What unites us is much more important than what divides us!

One RAFT for America trip left in 2024

to help us broaden the impact of RAFT for America in 2025.

Show your support for fair, safe, and secure elections
Sign the Principles for Trusted Elections.
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Take the Challenge

On the RAFT for America Experience, participants are paired up with someone from "outside their bubble" for a transformative personal adventure in one of the most exciting and pristine places on earth!

The goal is to demonstrate that no matter what our differences, there is much more that unites us than divides us, and that we always do better by pulling together than by pulling apart.
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Get in touch with our common values!

It can feel demoralizing or even dangerous to engage with those who disagree with us, inhibiting conversation across political divides. 

However, studies show that perception of the political divide is worse than the actual division. By doing activities together with those that see things differently than ourselves, we get in touch with our common values and are better able to understand each other and work together to solve our problems.
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Learning To Disagree Better

It's a fact: As a country, there's not a single issue that we're all going to agree on. But democracy isn't about agreeing. It's about
learning to manage our differences by Listening First and by Disagreeing Better.


Let's make 2024 the year that we all get behind the National Governors Association's call to Disagree Better. It's the one thing we can
all do to help really hear one another, and manage our inevitable differences. Help build the movement by joining us on a river this year, as part of the nationwide R.A.F.T. for America Challenge.
Join the Movement

Here's How It Works

This summer and fall, whitewater rafting
outfitters across America will offer free whitewater rafting trips to some of their guests, to help highlight our collective ability to manage and celebrate our differences. To apply for these trips, participants just answer a few questions, and agree to be matched up with
someone very unlike themselves.
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This isn’t about politics!

It’s about demonstrating to ourselves, to our fellow-Americans, and to the world, that our politics don’t define us, and that when we Listen First and Disagree Better, we really can accomplish great things together.  We want the world to see that America remains resilient, buoyed by the many millions of us who understand that we always do better by pulling together, than by pulling apart.