Resources
Explore our growing collection of leadership resources — from case studies and research briefs to practical guides and reflective essays. Each resource is designed to help leaders navigate complexity, strengthen values-driven leadership, and lead with conviction.
Case Study
When Inclusion Meets Conviction is the first in a new series of case studies exploring real-world leadership dilemmas. Each story examines how leaders respond when values collide — and what it takes to maintain integrity, trust, and inclusion under pressure.
Download the full case study to learn how one foundation’s bridge-building effort tested its commitment to inclusion and accountability.
Free Primers
Each of these primers is grounded in a peer-reviewed paper by Allison Ralph on how nonprofits can more effectively work across difference. Drawing on that research, the primers translate key insights into practical, accessible guidance for nonprofit leaders—covering themes like advocacy and bridging, shifting constellations of partnership, dual identity contact, and tolerating disagreement.
Advocacy & Bridging
A Primer for Working Across Difference
Shifting Constellations:
A Primer for Working For Nonprofits Across Difference
A Primer for Nonprofits
Dual Identitiy Contact
Shattering Binaries
Nonprofits Working Across Difference
Tolerating Disagreement
A Primer for Nonprofits Working Across Difference
Additional Publications
These featured works by Allison K. Ralph, Ph.D. reflect her ongoing research into how nonprofits, funders, and communities of faith can sustain pluralism and integrity in complex social landscapes. From peer-reviewed scholarship to practical guides, each piece explores a facet of what it means to work across boundaries — religious, cultural, political, or institutional — without losing sight of mission or moral clarity.
Together, they trace the throughline of Allison’s work and Cohesion Strategy’s mission: helping organizations cultivate the skills, insights, and structures needed to thrive amid difference.
Sickness and Health in the Body Politic
Religious Traditions of Social Boundaries, Justification, and Policy
BUT WHAT IF THEY PREACH?
A Guide for Funding Faith-Inspired Grantees with Boundaries and Integrity
PLURALISM IN PERIL : CHALLENGES TO AN AMERICAN IDEAL
Report of the Inclusive America Project. Allison Ralph wrote the chapter on Religious Literacy and Inclusion in Education Settings and Youth-Serving Organizations: Opportunities to Grow the Field.
Advocacy and Bridging Strategies Are Failing on Their Own.
Multifaith Nonprofits Embody Six Solutions for a Pluralistic Democracy