live · open enrollment
When the power goes out on your block, do you know which neighbor has a generator? When the creek floods, do you know the evacuation routes? We run our Neighborhood Resiliency Program to help neighborhoods organize their resources, relationships, and knowledge to support healthy, vibrant, and connected communities-of-place to cultivate their practical preparedness in case of emergency.
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Pillar · Coordination
Because there’s no going it alone.
When the power goes out on your block, do you know which neighbor has a generator? When the creek floods, do you know the evacuation routes? When you grow more tomatoes than you can eat, do you know who down the street could use them? When a wildfire pushes toward your neighborhood, do you have a plan — and did you compose it with the people you’d be evacuating alongside?
Right now, for many people on the Front Range, the answer to those questions is “no.” SPIRIT rises to change that. That’s why we created the Neighborhood Resiliency Program – to support denizens taking responsibility with their neighbors to cultivate patterns of relationship, solidarity, and resiliency so that we know whose backs we’ve got and whose got ours.
01 · Why before the How
02 · Knowing your neighbors
03 · Walking the neighborhood
04 · The basics
05 · The drill
06 · The capstone
Sign up for the next group
The program is free, runs in groups of about 12 people, and is delivered with the Neighborhood Villaging Project. Tell us where you live and who you'd bring along, and we'll put you on the list for the next opening in your area.
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For inquiries, email hello@spiritofthefrontrange.org
The SPIRIT programs all interconnect.
Solidarity Suppers foster relationships, the Commons Sense teachings build understanding, the Neighborhood Resiliency Program builds enduring capacity, and the Grant Rounds put resources in motion.
Culturing
Commons Sense Education
We offer Commons Sense teachings to educate people on the history, present, and future of the Commons, particularly as it relates to our responsibilities to the living land and to 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.
Belonging
Solidarity Suppers
We host small Solidarity Suppers to nourish and council with indigenous relatives, community elders, mothers, and movement leaders. 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.
Flowing money to the work
Community Grant Rounds
We raise money for the members of the Front Range Bioregional Commons to allocate to regenerative cultural and ecological projects along the Front Range using community-led coordination and resource-disbursement technologies.
