Mission: artistic and economic freedom
From www.ic.org/directory/motropolis/:
Mission: We are a cooperative, intentional, mutually supportive community, committed to peace, equality, inclusiveness, social and environmental justice.
From www.ic.org/directory/commonplacecoop/:
We are a cooperative housing community with 8 households in a 3-story walk-up near Porter Square, Cambridge. Our urban location is ideal, convenient to shopping, good public schools, universities, public transportation, and bike lanes into Boston.\n\n\ We come to this community as individuals with our own aspirations, values, and experiences. At the same time we recognize that the art of successful life in a cooperative community is dependent upon building healthy capacities for compromise. We seek to live in community, learning from each other, respecting our differences and resolving the inevitable conflicts that will arise from these differences. Kindness, compassion, and respect are the foundation for our interactions. We are committed to engaging in honest, direct, and respectful communication with each other.\n\n\ Many of our members have been here for our history, since 1973, with new members bringing energy and commitment along the way. We\xE2\x80\x99ve raised children together and now most of us are retired, enjoying grandchildren, family visits, travel and social occasions, as well as the cultural life of the city. \n\n\ We share celebrations and support one another through losses. We gather for community events in our common room as well as our beautiful yard and gardens. We have off-street parking for one car per household. Many people stop on their walk to the \xE2\x80\x9CT\xE2\x80\x9D to smell our roses or choose a book from the Little Free Library.\n\n\ Members own the building and land cooperatively, each household owning shares based on square footage. Shareholders rotate terms serving on the Board of Directors. We work together on committees and projects, including planning, maintenance, gardening, and social events. In our monthly meetings, we share perspectives and concerns, and make decisions by consensus." grouping: email_response_token: physical_country: United States oid: fe854277-346a-4795-89ec-58bdb59855be mailing_zip: latitude: 42.380442 fax: primary_location_id: 23155 id: 22719 dso: Fellowship for Intentional Community year_founded: responded_at: phone: updated_at: source_grouping: mailing_state: dso_update: fresh created_at: - physical_zip: "70117" name: Jourdan Valley group: dccid: response: physical_state: Louisiana physical_city: New Orleans mailing_city: mailing_address2: mailing_address1: longitude: -90.024731 import_notice_sent_at: email: physical_address2: physical_address1: 1308 Jourdan Ave access_rule_id: 1 mailing_county: mailing_country: democratic: website: physical_county: mode: description: "Mission: Our mission is to develop a residential housing alternative designed to maximize interaction between neighbors. We believe that building smaller homes around an extensive, shared common space will foster an affordable, sustainable, and engaging community experience. We are seeking community members who want to live in a diverse, multi-generational environment with strong community support.
Our society focuses on traditional nuclear family homes, but for us, this format no longer meets our needs. We live in neighborhoods, in communities, but still many people don't know their neighbors and feel isolated and alone. \n\ \xE2\x80\x8B\n\ We have a simple mission: to create an affordable, residential community with efficient private homes and generous common space structured to engage its members and create daily, casual interaction and shared experiences. Tucked between Claiborne and St. Claude along the Industrial Canal, this area within the Lower Ninth Ward is well-suited for a pocket community. \n\n\ The Lower Ninth Ward has a history of strong community roots. We are inspired by the legacy of neighborhood participation and want to resurrect the high-functioning neighborhood traditional to this area to serve the mental, emotional, and physical health of the community. We feel that isolation in a community can be detrimental to its people, and our aim is to rebuild the neighborhood fabric that offers activities, shared amenities, and friendly environment to elevate the benefits to all of our neighbors. We hope that our development leads to other development in the area. While the community still has limited access to groceries, schools, and health care we hope to be an impetus for additional, positive investment." grouping: email_response_token: physical_country: United States oid: f07521e3-aaee-4937-8b6a-af44c5925a06 mailing_zip: latitude: 29.965734 fax: primary_location_id: 23193 id: 22757 dso: Fellowship for Intentional Community year_founded: responded_at: phone: updated_at: source_grouping: mailing_state: dso_update: fresh created_at: