Precarity isn't just a lack of money — it's a lack of both economic security and social connection. Why a negative income tax needs bottom-up community infrastructure to actually work.

What does civic engagement look like? UnidosUS’s Civics for All program connects civic topics to our everyday lives. And the program's impact is growing, extending into some of the country's most historically underserved communities, including tribal lands and Native American reservations.

The Village Movement is a the best and most popular Age-in-Place Aging model. The Village Movement is an innovative grassroots movement that coordinates critical services for older adults.  Villages are one of the most promising options to cope with the upcoming “Aging-in-Place” dilemma.  The Village Movement began in 1999 with a group of older adults who wanted to live in their own homes while staying engaged in social activities within their neighborhood.  

Community Commons is a robust online platform that supports change-makers working to advance equitable community health and well-being. For over a decade, we’ve connected those driving change to the best tools, resources, data, and stories to support this work.

Once you learn what the "uni-context" is, you won't stop seeing it everywhere

A THAT BUSINESS OF CONVERSATION. Baiba Matisone is a brand & creative strategist in Berlin. She is the co-founder of brandLingual, a learning platform that bridges evidence-based and intuitive marketing. Previously, she has held strategy roles at Ogilvy, Grey, Fallon, Kantar Millward Brown, and Antoni Berlin, working on global accounts including Mercedes-Benz, Vodafone, L’Oréal Paris, and Google across Asia, Europe, and North America. She lectures at Miami Ad School, and is the founder of strategy community Planning Folklore, and practitioner community Strategy Pints Berlin.

The most important currency for a strong nation is trust. The Trust Waterfall is the framework that guides the Chandler Foundation’s work with national leaders to build trust across three domains: government, marketplace, and community. Our approach to integrity-building is to inspire, support, and empower government leaders to implement meaningful reforms that cultivate integrity across the three domains.

Nature immersion and ancestral skills. Description: A nature immersion school and online resource founded by Kenton and Rebecca Whitman, based in Wisconsin’s Driftless Region. Covers wilderness skills, foraging, herbalism, nature awareness, and ancestral living through free videos, books, and intensive in-person programs.

Discover Planetir, an ecosystem platform uniting individuals, companies and communities leveraging their heart and tech skills to regenerate the planet.

We support building community resilience as a hopeful and practical response to multiple emerging ecological and social challenges.

In a talk on "community wealth" at the Ecovillage Findhorn, Guy Dauncey shares how kinder, community-based economies can create lasting shared prosperity for people and nature.

“Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.”

Why we need both, and the risks of differentiating community as lifestyle content and community as survival infrastructure

Cheimgauer’s can only be spent in a three month window, after which they become invalid. If the notes aren’t spent they can be renewed at a cost of 2%

Humans (sometimes) make other humans, but not in conditions of their own choosing. “There isn’t really a loneliness crisis,” I said. “At least, not in the way people often imagine.” What I mean, specifically, is that there is not good evidence people are getting lonelier. You can see data here, or, you can talk to Paddy Maher, a loneliness researcher interviewed in my next book who wrote an article on this topic here. (Tragically paywalled…) The short version of the evidence is:

More complex problem solving. Systems thinking was a genuine intellectual leap. Before it, most management frameworks treated organizations as machines: predictable, decomposable, controllable. You could understand the whole by understanding the parts. If something went wrong, you found the broken part and fixed it.

Shifting the narrative, changing the system. Better Future Media covers economic movements, political power, and planetary wellbeing.

Everything is connected. Tonight for supper I ate a hamburger and a can of hominy. Without the hamburger the hominy tastes much like old fashioned library paste. I don’t eat meat every day, but I eat some most weeks. I know this disgusts some people, but I am at peace with it. I am not going to permit my body to be embalmed. Living, dying, being eaten. It is the way of all life and I respect it.