Asbury Park, NJ
"Maybe everything that dies, someday comes back," Bruce Springsteen belted out in Atlantic City. He could have been singing about his own hometown...
Asheville(NC)/Providence(RI)
While the federal government continues to kick the can on reparations, local communities like Asheville (NC) and Providence (RI) are moving forward......
Babcock Ranch
A quiet new housing development fifteen miles north of Fort Myers, Florida could mark the future of suburban living and community, finding the sweet spot between Flintstone and Jetson life......
Braver Angels
Formed in 2016 election, Braver Angels is dedicated to depolarizing politics through online debates, courses, workshops, movies, even songwriting...
Bridge The Divide
Bridge The Divide was created by college students, for college students, to build trust and understanding not just between red and blue, but internationally too...
City Deals
While we've been centralizing power more and more, Britain has been taking a page from our original book of federalism through its City Deals program, much to the delight of legendary burgs like
Civic 50
For years the Points of Light Foundation has been highlighting major corporations that are doing the right things by our communities. Check out this year's honorees and past winners for inspiration......
Community Votes
Community Votes is demonstrating how non-profits who deliver services directly to the underserved can dramatically increase their participation in the electoral process......
Estonia
One of our smallest nations has one of the biggest footprints/capita in cyberspace. Take a whirlwind tour of the country that may be providing a preview of the future of governments planet-wide......
Georgetown, TX
A small town in the heart of Texas has become an unexpected leader among the growing number of municipalities seeking to bring all generations together...
GiveDirectly
What if we just gave the poor money instead of creating programs to help them? GiveDirectly has been doing just that for more than a decade with surprising results...
Green Bay Packers
America's smallest pro football team is also its most successful, and there's a reason for this that could turn what a...
Hands Across The Hills
Hands Across The Hills is conducting old-fashioned retail politics in the new-fangliest way, bridging chasms two communities at a time to creating a model for the nation...
Landforce
In Pittsburgh, PA, Landforce is reaching out to those returning from incarceration, people recovering from substance abuse and others struggling to get a foothold in the job market to develop fresh gr...
More In Common
MIC is an international organization (US, UK, Germany) dedicated to determining the root causes of polarization, then developing/testing initiatives to address them...
New Georgia Project
Stacey Abrams' New Georgia Project has become the new gold standard for engaging non-voters, getting them registered, getting them to the polls, and fighting voter suppression...
Participatory Budgeting Project
The Participatory Budgeting Project engages more than 300,000 citizens in 22 cities deciding how to spend more than $230M in public monies on hundreds of community projects across the U.S......
Phoenix, Arizona
The denizens of one of America's hottest cities band together to make life in the land of the sun more bearable, modeling an innovative all-in approach that could become a standard nationwide......
Radical Centrists
Radical centrist organizations and communities around the world are seeking to synthesize the best ideas of right and left to bridge partisan divides and dysfunction to move their countries forward...
Roanoke, Virginia
With twice as many followers as residents, and an overall reach of 25M, the small city of Roanoke, Virgina (pop. 90,000) has taken civic engagement viral, and done it with an in-house staff of one...
Rural-Urban Connections
Rural-Urban Connections Strategy and Center of the American West find ways we can all live, even work together, at least sometimes with a smile......
Sadhan, India
The Indian village of Sadhan has been proving for years that Hindus and Muslims can literally live together in peace...
San Francisco et al
For more than a decade, San Francisco and other Bay Area communities have been leading a revolution in voting that's reducing extremism and partisan division from coast-to-coast......
Social Finance
Social Finance is bringing together local governments, non-profits, tech companies, and impact investors to create new programs with a catch: either the program works, or no one gets paid......
Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact
At the US epicenter of the greatest global threat, the collaboration between four counties in southeast Florida is providing a potential regional model for dealing with climate change, not only in the...
Sra Pou School
The school as hub for the community around it has become a cutting-edge ideal; nowhere is it being more fully realized than in some of the world's poorest places...
STAR School, AZ
One of the best examples of a K-12 school doubling as a community hub in the U.S. is also one of the our most innovative, the Navajo STAR School in Arizona...
Stockton, CA
The most diverse city in the U.S. is Stockton, CA. Its multiculturalism enabled its rise from the ashes in the aughts and is doing so again today, but its story is also a cautionary tale...
Verde Landscape
A community-based enterprise created by nonprofit Hacienda, Verde is partnering with the city of Portland on a model that fuses green infrastructure with building community wealth, offering people wit...
Waterford, VA
It's the town time was kicked out of, a tiny and unique village just off the beaten path that still looks and feels much like it did in the 1700s, when community seemed to mean a lot more than it does...
We Feed The World
Small farmers produce 70% of the food we consume, on only a quarter of earth's arable land. We Feed The World has taken as its mission to take you to these essential rural communities...