The Movement Collective

The Movement Collective is a “systems change” project incubator. The Movement Collective has a prefigurative strategy: we are partnering with communities to start to build the new, more caring, liberated, sustainable world we seek now. We do it by generating and piloting local models of visionary new systems that can lay the foundation for that new world – and then replicating them. As Movement Collective models demonstrate new systems, they also meet the immediate needs of communities and build the roots – the underlying sources – of community power. Our initiatives rebuild and foster:

• Local self-sufficiency by shifting the provision of basic needs from economies that are extractive and exploitative to ones that are local, just, democratic, and sustainable;
• Deep community by bringing people together in collective purpose;
• Democratic proficiency by creating opportunities for people to practice democracy in cooperative governance structures; and
• Natural bounty by restoring local ecosystems.