Catalytic Communities

If you believe that people can come together even in poor communities to solve their own problems, since we are all active agents of positive change, does that make you a conservative, a progressive, or maybe just a decent human being and citizen? Catalytic Communities grew from working in the favelas in Brazil, teaching computer literacy, to an on-line self-organizing network of grassroots efforts worldwide. What's working in your grassroots network? You can post your project at Cat Com and find kindred spirits sharing best practices. I know two of the people involved, Michael Maranda, their US Strategic Director, and Jean Russell, on their board. What's their angle? Too idealistic, I am afraid, to have gotten around to one. If markets fail us, and governments too, and we all end up in post-collapse favelas, these are people who would still be hard at it, trying to make life more tolerable for those around them.