Plug into your neighborhood
Find local collaborators
Connect with your neighbors over ideas and projects,
not just complaints.
'Never doubt that a small group can change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.' -Margaret Mead
Are you curious about what you and your neighbors could do together?
Join your Neighborhood Network app to receive a few questions a month from other neighbors via text/email. You'll have a chance to see what other neighbors say. We'll suggest introductions to neighbors you may share more in common with than you had realized.Then we encourage you to make groups, get off-line, and meet up face-to-face in your neighborhood!
😎 Connect with those you don't normally.
Busy lurkers are more likely to answer specific questions - and it's easier to translate one question into different languages. Our research shows that even shy introverts will meet in one-on-ones if there's a reason - and we work with your local 'Network Stewards' to help you and your neighbors find reasons to meet.
💪 Improve your community.
Your local 'Neighborhood Network' app is available to make it easy to check out what your neighbors think. Share and find out about local events. See who else is interested in the ideas you care about. Search groups and create your own. Find mentors and institutional collaborators. Get support on your project ideas. We're here to help you.
💰 You decide.
Want to prohibit any type of advertisement? Okay! Want to allow ads to earn some money for your community? Great. Want to use that money to throw a block party? To buy some tree seedlings? A fund for youth entrepreneurs? Dividends for yourselves? You decide (with your neighbors) - via 'Neighborhood Funds' we'll help you figure out and implement (and possibly seed with initial funding).
Be a model of change for the country.
Right now, researchers say 1 in 2 American adults experience loneliness. Not only does social disconnection lead to health outcomes similar to smoking 15 cigarettes a day, but who likes feeling alone - without friendship and without a sense of agency?It's up to us to re-connect our communities.In a country like the USA where 74% of us report a sense of non-belonging at the local level, we believe change starts local.Join our community of practice of neighborhoods experimenting with Neighborhood Networks. Learn from amazing neighbors, and show the rest of the country what's possible!
Interested to bring this to your community?
We are looking for Network Stewards.
We work with local Network Stewards to adopt the Neighborhood Network to your local needs.The Network Steward(s) can be an individual, group, or organization. They help us invite neighbors into the network, support the local projects, design the Neighborhood Fund, and act as guardians of the network.Each Network Stewards only serves for a year or so, before rotating off to allow for others in the community to become Network Stewards.Here are the neighborhoods we look for:
A core group of neighbors who are passionate about co-creating a sense of belonging for all neighbors.
All types of communities: rural, urban, suburban...
Located anywhere: you'd be joining communities testing this out in Louisiana, Wisconsin, New York, and North Carolina.
At least a few active neighbors committed to helping us set up and test this model. The first main focus is recruiting and selecting an intergenerational group of initial Network Stewards.
Interest in setting up specific, time-bound community goals - and track progress! With our background in collective decision-making, we can help you figure these out.
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