Common Ground

Common Ground may refer to:

• Common ground (communication technique)
• Grounding in communication (theory)
• Common resources, publicly owned areas, especially those for meeting
• Common land, ground where the public have traditional rights, such as grazing
• Common ground (electricity), multiple electronic devices connected to the same ground potential

Organizations

• Common Ground (United Kingdom), a UK charity and lobby group promoting local distinctiveness
• Common Ground (New York City), a New York City-based non-profit supportive housing provider nationally engaged in promulgating use of the vulnerability index with homeless enumeration counts
• Common Ground Project, a Buddhist-Muslim interfaith initiative endorsed by the Dalai Lama.
• Common Ground (Seattle), a Seattle-based nonprofit affordable housing developer
• Common Ground Athens, a resource center for grassroots nonprofits in Athens, Georgia
• Common Ground Collective, a network of volunteer organizations supporting New Orleans
• Common Ground Health Clinic, a non-profit, free clinic servicing greater New Orleans
• Search for Common Ground, an international non-profit involved in conflict resolution and transformation

Music

Albums

• Common Ground (Above & Beyond album), or the title song, 2018
• Common Ground (Gary Burton album), or the title song, 2011
• Common Ground (Leama & Moor album), 2006
• Common Ground (Paul Winter album), or the title song, 1978
• Common Ground (Rhythm Corps album), or the title song, 1988
• Common Ground (Richie Havens album), 1983
• The Common Ground, by Herbie Mann, or the title instrumental, 1960
• Common Ground (EP), or the title song, by Andy McKee, 2009
• Common Ground, by Kathryn Tickell, 1988
• Common Ground, by Mazgani, 2013
• Common Ground, by Tom Chapin, 2001
• Common Ground: Dave & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy, by Dave and Phil Alvin, 2014

Other uses

• "Common Ground (Get It Goin' On)", a song by A Tribe Called Quest from The Love Movement
• Common Ground Music Festival, an event held annually in Lansing, Michigan, U.S.
• Common Ground Festival, an underground punk festival in the UK

Literature

• Common Ground (book), by J. Anthony Lukas, which examines race relations and desegregation busing in Boston, Massachusetts
• Common Grounds, a comic book series
• Common Ground (magazine), a literary magazine published quarterly between 1941 and 1949 by the Common Council for American Unity (CCAU)
• Common Ground (memoir), a memoir by Canadian politician Justin Trudeau

Film, television and theatre

• Common Ground (1916 film), a silent film starring Marie Doro
• Common Ground (2000 film), a Showtime television movie
• Common Ground (2002 film) (Lugares comunes), an Argentine / Spanish film directed by Adolfo Aristarain
• "Common Ground" (Siders), a 1998 television episode
• "Common Ground" (Stargate Atlantis), a 2006 television episode

Software

• CommonGround (software), a software program that helps people receiving mental health services communicate more effectively with their clinicians