★ Live & upcoming · open to everyone · free or pay-what-you-can
Easy ways to get involved.
Our programs are how strangers become neighbors, how neighborhoods become resilient, and how we learn what it actually means to take care of this place together. There are no prerequisites. Just the willingness to show up.
Pillar · Culturing
Commons Teach-Ins.
“What does it actually mean to take care of something together?”
Commons Teach-Ins are free monthly sessions on the long history, the practical ecology, and the everyday practice of caring for shared things. No prerequisites. No specialized vocabulary required. Bring your questions. Stay for the conversation.
We cover the long story — from a time when all peoples were native to a place, through the centuries of fencing-off shared land, to the communities that kept this work alive, to the new local experiments emerging today. Each session leaves something behind — a reading list, a recording, notes — building toward a free curriculum and book on this work.
Pillar · Belonging
Solidarity Suppers.
Solidarity Suppers are how we practice taking care of a place together — before we make it formal.
These are not networking events. They are invitation-based long-table dinners where people come on behalf of their neighborhoods, organizations, and places. The shared meal opens the door to honest conversation. We host listening circles and storytellings — the kind of slow conversation that lets people say what they’re actually working on, what they need, and where the connections want to be made.
We center community leaders and elders — especially our Indigenous neighbors, whose knowledge of this place goes back generations. The shared meal opens the door to everything that comes after.
Pillar · Coordination
Neighborhood Resiliency Programs.
Because there’s no going it alone.
A free 12-session program, run with the Neighborhood Villaging Project, that gives a small group of neighbors the relationships, the skills, and the plan to weather an emergency together. You leave with a finished Community Resiliency Plan for your block — and the people you wrote it with.
The program moves from why (values and accountability), through who (your actual neighbors), through where (the risks and resources on your block), through how (water, power, first aid, taking care of each other), through what if (a full practice scenario), and finally to the capstone Resiliency Dinner. Relationships are the foundation. Readiness is what they make possible.
Pillar · Flowing money to the work
Community Grant Rounds.
SPIRIT raises money so it can flow directly to the local projects this place most needs — with the priorities set by the people who actually live here, not by a distant board.
Anyone can propose a project: a community garden, a watershed restoration, a mutual aid fund, a cultural preservation effort. Our grant rounds use a community-weighted system designed to amplify the voices of many small contributors rather than concentrating power with a few large ones.
This is not a boardroom deciding what’s good for you. It is the people of this place deciding for themselves.
The first round is being designed now. Sign up to hear when applications open.
★ Other ways to take part
Become a founding member of the Front Range Commons.
Help shape how this works in practice — join working groups, propose projects, vote on community grants, and share what you know with the people who live where you live.