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Weave’s Social Trust Map Picks Up Three Awards
November 18, 2025
Weave: The Social Fabric Project
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Every week, you’ll get resources on how to weave our communities and restore social trust.
What if you knew the strength of trusting behaviors, trusting intentions, and trusting spaces in your own community? Not in your city, county, or your zip code, but in your own neighborhood? How might you use that information to create belonging and trust with your neighbors?
That’s what Weave’s Social Trust Map tells you in a four-minute, interactive experience on your phone. It shares stories of how people everywhere are quietly showing up for others where they live to restore connection and trust in our divided country. Then you pick your neighborhood on the map and see what strengths you and others can build on to weave neighbors into a tighter community.
This week, the international Webby Awards announced their picks for the best online, mission-driven work of the year. Weave’s Trust Map won three of their Anthem Awards – gold for best use of data, bronze for local community engagement, and the Community Voice award (chosen by popular vote) for offering opportunities to engage the local community in an important cause.
If you haven’t seen the Trust Map yet, explore it at WeavingTrust.org. You’ll be able to put yourself on the map as someone who cares about uniting our communities and country, and you’ll see opportunities to get involved in weaving work right where you live.
Share the map with your friends and colleagues and help Weave with its mission to create a strong new social fabric for America. When columnist and author David Brooks started Weave: The Social Fabric Project at the Aspen Institute, he aimed to heal us by inspiring a nation of weavers.
In this edition of the Job Quality Newsletter, we unpack why manufacturing jobs are often seen as desirable yet don’t consistently deliver on that promise, highlight research that shows how efforts to strengthen businesses can also improve the quality of jobs they provide, and consider how government purchasing power can be used to set higher job standards across the sector.
Aspen Ideas: Economy highlighted how cultural institutions, creators, and new technologies are redefining what it means to participate in the creative economy.
What makes for truly effective, trustworthy business leadership in today’s complex environment? Judy Samuelson, the Executive Director of the Business & Society Program, joins other Aspen leaders for an “In Session” interview.
