Put Yourself and Your Community on the Map
Every week on The Bottom-Up Revolution podcast, I get the privilege of talking with advocates who are doing the important work to make their communities stronger. Many of them are sustaining Strong Towns members, and each conversation blows me away when I hear about how they are taking this message of financial resilience to heart and making incredible, incremental strides to strengthen their cities alongside their neighbors.
For example:
A few months ago, I talked with Alex Rodriguez and Danny Lapin who are collaborating with fellow residents in rural upstate New York to revitalize a historic property as a community gathering space and entrepreneurship catalyst.
Back in December, I heard from Sheleita Miller who hosts a neighborhood group and radio program to help her neighbors in Gary, Indiana, understand what’s going on in local government.
Just last month, I chatted with Charles and Whitney Coats, who’ve been bringing the Strong Towns mission into their work at Habitat for Humanity in the Brazos Valley in Texas, as well as advocating for greater housing options and zoning flexibility at the state level.
These are just a handful of the thousands of Strong Towns members who make up a truly amazing map… Take a look:
(Note: We’ve got this organized just by city so that we keep home addresses private, but know that most towns with one dot probably have several members living there.)
Every single dot represents a member who is taking the (big and small) steps to make their community more economically resilient—and who publicly and financially supports this movement.
Go ahead and zoom in on your state or region. Do you see Strong Towns members nearby? You should, because we’ve got members in every single state, and in several different countries.
This movement is growing across the globe, and we want to see not just thousands, but tens and hundreds of thousands of members who are taking action in their communities.
Are you ready to join this movement and put your dot on the map, too?
Once you do, you can also check out our map of Local Conversation groups, where Strong Towns members are gathering together to discuss important local issues and make plans to address them together. (Learn more about that here.)
If you’re taking action to make your community stronger, it’s time to get on the map and join fellow Strong Towns advocates across the country.
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