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Special event: PBS NewsHour senior correspondent Judy Woodruff joins the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Stacy Palmer on Wednesday, December 4, at 12:30 p.m. ET for a post-election conversation about what it will take to bring the country together. They will discuss Woodruff’s reporting for the “America at a Crossroads” series, which examines the country’s fractures and the role of nonprofits and philanthropy in developing solutions.

📣 Join the conversation! The event is free on LinkedIn. 🎟 Registration is required.

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News and other noteworthy items:

• Greater Good Magazine looks to the post-election horizon in two installments: “What’s Giving Us Hope Now?” and “Where Do We Go From Here?” The pieces round up post-election perspectives (in short form) from writers, thinkers, and leaders such as Marc Freedman and Eunice Lin Nichols of CoGenerate, Mylien Duong of the Constructive Dialogue Institute, Mónica Guzmán of Braver Angels, and Tami Pyfer of Project Unite.
  
• The Atlantic’s Jennifer Senior asks: “How do we move forward without venom, without looking at strangers — and people within our own party — as potential enemies?” The answer, she writes, is to zero in on things that matter: “We can focus on our vulnerabilities. We can choose to talk about and pass bills to address and continually emphasize the human hardships that bind us together. We all experience grief. We all have disabled relatives in our family whom we worry about. We all need friendship and mourn the relationships that have faded away. We all get cancer or some other disease that makes us reckon with our own mortality. We get chronic illnesses; our bodies fail.”
  
• On the Washington Post’s Impromptu podcast, contributing columnists Amanda Ripley, Matt Bai, and Theodore Johnson consider civic involvement in a second Trump “resistance.”