Hahrie Han

I think their instinctive reaction sometimes is for people to say, like, well, you know, we're an environmental organization, so we don't have that same kind of, you know, spiritual grounding that's going to be able to make our work possible, which is true. But there's no reason why an environmental organization can't create the same kind of community that a church does, you know.

I think their instinctive reaction sometimes is for people to say, like, well, you know, we're an environmental organization, so we don't have that same kind of, you know, spiritual grounding that's going to be able to make our work possible, which is true. But there's no reason why an environmental organization can't create the same kind of community that a church does, you know.

And so that is, to me, a choice as opposed to, you know, something that has to be the way it is.

And so that is, to me, a choice as opposed to, you know, something that has to be the way it is.

Yeah. Yeah. It's a universal preschool program. You know, as I put my political science hat on, it's very hard to kind of like causally unpack the extent to which – you know, what that sort of precise effect was.

Yeah. Yeah. It's a universal preschool program. You know, as I put my political science hat on, it's very hard to kind of like causally unpack the extent to which – you know, what that sort of precise effect was.

But what I will say is that, you know, hundreds of volunteers from Undivided got involved in Issue 44 and then basically volunteered at the, at a level of, you know, somewhere between kind of two to 10 hours a week in the sort of 12 weeks leading up to the election.

But what I will say is that, you know, hundreds of volunteers from Undivided got involved in Issue 44 and then basically volunteered at the, at a level of, you know, somewhere between kind of two to 10 hours a week in the sort of 12 weeks leading up to the election.

And that's a level of volunteerism that is just having looked at a lot of the data on a lot of these kinds of campaigns that is just very unusual to see. You don't see that level of commitment. And, you know, what they're doing is they're doing things that you normally do on political campaigns or knocking on doors or calling voters or getting people engaged, you know.

And that's a level of volunteerism that is just having looked at a lot of the data on a lot of these kinds of campaigns that is just very unusual to see. You don't see that level of commitment. And, you know, what they're doing is they're doing things that you normally do on political campaigns or knocking on doors or calling voters or getting people engaged, you know.

And, you know, the fact that it was neighbors talking to neighbors means that You know, we know from the data is that it's much more likely to be effective than having an outside vendor from Washington, D.C., like calling voters in Cincinnati, telling them to get involved in this ballot initiative or something like that.

And, you know, the fact that it was neighbors talking to neighbors means that You know, we know from the data is that it's much more likely to be effective than having an outside vendor from Washington, D.C., like calling voters in Cincinnati, telling them to get involved in this ballot initiative or something like that.

So we can't estimate the precise effects, but we know from other research that those kinds of locally driven volunteer efforts tend to be more effective than ones that are not.

So we can't estimate the precise effects, but we know from other research that those kinds of locally driven volunteer efforts tend to be more effective than ones that are not.

Yeah, so a couple things that I'll say is, first is just, you know, so Undivided started as a program within the Crossroads Church. They have spun off, since spun off, to become their own independent nonprofit, and they have brought the program to other churches within the U.S., but they've also brought it to other, they also developed a secular version that they've taken to other workplaces.

Yeah, so a couple things that I'll say is, first is just, you know, so Undivided started as a program within the Crossroads Church. They have spun off, since spun off, to become their own independent nonprofit, and they have brought the program to other churches within the U.S., but they've also brought it to other, they also developed a secular version that they've taken to other workplaces.

And so, for example, some of the people I interviewed was a police force in a suburb of Cincinnati that invited Undivided to come and essentially run the six-week program with a coalition of people from the city that was a group of people, officers from the police force, but then also some city council people and other civic leaders.

And so, for example, some of the people I interviewed was a police force in a suburb of Cincinnati that invited Undivided to come and essentially run the six-week program with a coalition of people from the city that was a group of people, officers from the police force, but then also some city council people and other civic leaders.

And they all did this program together and they report it as having been pivotal to kind of opening conversation about race within their city. And so we see it in even like very unusual places like that. That's a small suburb of Cincinnati. So it's not scale in the sense of reaching like tens of thousands of people, but it's a different kind of entity that they've been able to reach.

And they all did this program together and they report it as having been pivotal to kind of opening conversation about race within their city. And so we see it in even like very unusual places like that. That's a small suburb of Cincinnati. So it's not scale in the sense of reaching like tens of thousands of people, but it's a different kind of entity that they've been able to reach.