SPIRIT of the Front Range
A Colorado nonprofit helping neighbors and communities along the Front Range take care of the land, water, and life that we share.
Our programming is designed on four pillars -- solidarity, education, allocation, and coordination.
Solidarity takes the form of our Solidarity Suppers, intimate in-home and third-space gatherings for Indigenous and elder community leaders to be fed, to tell stories, and to be in council together. Our Neighborhood Resiliency Program also brings communities and neighborhoods together to learn and deepen practices of shared resiliency; for example, permaculture design, local edible and medicinal plants, neighborhood risk assessment, and disaster preparedness.
Our Commons Sense Course is for educating folks on the commonality of our resources of place -- the water, the air, the land -- and how our stewardship of them together unites us under a common, life-regenerating purpose.
We are streamlining the processes by which regenerative projects gain funding according to the wishes of the community that drives the allocation of funds marked for the re-vitalization of our shared home, our bioregion.
Fundraisers
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Solidarity Suppers
Solidarity Suppers are long-table dinners where we nourish our Indigenous and community leaders with a lovingly-prepared meal, open ears, and open hearts. These are not networking events. They are invitational spaces where people show up on behalf of their communities, organizations, neighborhoods, and ecologies in the spirit of regenerating our capacities for fellowship and solidarity. We are creating spaces that intentionally lift up the existing leaders of the regenerative movement in our bioregion.
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Commons Sense Education
What even IS the Commons? What does being part of the Commons mean for us? Commons Sense is a broadcast teaching on the philosophical, historical, and practical roots of the Commons, particularly the “commons sense” that we all share responsibility for our most elemental resources – the land, the water, the air, and each other. Drawing on Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning research, Indigenous stewardship traditions, and the practical wisdom of communities that never stopped commoning, we educate participants in the learning journey about practical paths toward bioregional self-organizing, resiliency, and regeneration that address the Common Good.
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- Next milestone
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Donors
Kevin Owocki Excited for this trust network to grow 🍀
Jordan Stenholm Olivia Waller Julia Maddalena Tandena Wagner