Representatives of 160 community-based organizations are learning how to more closely work together despite America’s intertwined crises of social isolation and rising extremism. 

The organizations met in downtown San Francisco this week for the first in a series of eight regional convenings that will be held across California in the coming weeks. The California Connects Regional Convenings are being put together by the Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications, an initiative of the Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement, or GO-SERVE. 

Josh Fryday, the state’s chief services officer and a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor in next year’s election, is GO-SERVE’s director. In addition to the community partnerships office, GO-SERVE includes the C

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