WHAT WE DO
We’re taking the paths of storytelling, translating, organizing and partnering to help people connect, care and come alive.
STORYTELLING:
Attracting new village makers and supporters by telling stories—like on podcasts and through creative ads—to spread the idea and potential benefits of villages, while serving caregivers and greying adults by sharing care ideas, tools and resources through our blog and newsletter.
TRANSLATING & ORGANIZING:
Turning research into tips and tools to make village making fun and doable for neighbors of all ages, and to engage decision makers across sectors. Also, compiling information about home and community-based services, and other resources, to make them easier for villagers to find.
PARTNERING:
Building relationships—particularly with caring neighbors, existing village leaders and others in aging, housing, home health and more—to develop and spread creative village models and programs, as well as simple strategies for neighbors to get medical care at or close to home.
We plan to prioritize programs in these areas:
Movement for well-being, cooperation and joy:
“When we move together, we tie our fates together. And we become invested in the well-being of those we move with.” Plus, “Regular movement changes your brain in ways that are a natural anti-depressant; that…make your brain more sensitive to pleasure and to joy.”
Dr. Kelly McGonigal
Author, psychologist, educator
Food Sharing, Healthy Cooking, Gardening & Composting:
Few things bring people together like food, and everything—from learning ability to national security, from personal to environmental health—is touched by food systems. Food is an essential “tool” for providing care, especially for those without enough.
Entrepreneurship training & group projects:
“Entrepreneurship is one of the most powerful Forces in the Universe. It is Creation. It is being in God’s own image at its best. … [Entrepreneurship] is a pathway that can redeem a person, a family, a neighborhood, a people, a country and even our world.”
Samuel T. Harmon III
Founder, Church of the Entrepreneur
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