2. We’re offering open access to our online membership club while social distancing is in place.

If you’ve been keeping up with our announcements, you know that we’ve also been working on launching two individual membership clubs – The Common Club and the Common Good Professional Network.

We also weren’t planning on launching these quite yet, but given our collective need for support, guidance, and community, we decided we couldn’t wait any longer. For the time being, we’ll have one club that everyone can join, committed to one goal – creating a Guide To Community Resiliency, together.

The standard price for our individual membership clubs is $120/ a year, but given the urgent need for this kind of digital community, we’ll be waiving our usual membership fee for anyone who wants to join. However, if you are able to contribute financially, we ask that you please do. Like so many others, we have been severely impacted by COVID-19 and after 16 years of community service, are finding ourselves wondering how we’ll be able to survive.

When you sign up, you’ll gain access to our private Slack Channel and Facebook Group where you’ll be able to:

• Engage in important conversations around building community resiliency, with a special focus on topics like – urban gardening & food preservation, policy, resource management, climate change, equity, lessons learned from history/ other times of crisis

• Share your own stories of personal and community resilience, as well as gain inspiration by listening to others

• Learn from fellow Austinites and share your own unique skills of resilience – gardening, creative reuse, harvesting and saving seeds, etc.

• Listen in to video interviews (conducted by Austin Common staff) with community activists, historians, and policy makers who have insights to share on how we can get through this crisis now and become more resilient in the future.

• Regular action items that you can take from home to help yourself and others through these uncertain times

Our goal is that by the end of this crisis, we’ll have created a powerful resource (and community behind it) that we can share with our fellow Austinites and cities around the world so that we can be stronger in the face of an uncertain future.

Join us.