Examples of CoHo Contributions to Society | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Dan Suchman (71756.2661compuserve.com) | |
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:10:57 -0500 |
Dear Cohousing-L Readers: I recently visited Katie McCamant and Chuck Durrett at their home in Emeryville, CA. Chuck is attempting to gather some data for his presentation at the North American Cohousing Conference in Boulder, scheduled for late September. He has asked me to inquire of Cohousing-L subscribers how they see cohousing contributing directly to the greater community, outside of cohousing. Chuck seeks examples of contribution beyond the modeling of such virtues as cooperation and reduced environmental impact. He would like examples of more direct and active contributions to the greater community, such as lobbying for progressive legislation and service in local government and non-profit organizations. These activities may be undertaken by or on behalf of the cohousing community (such as a bake sale or cleaning up a park), or it may be something that an individual cohousing resident has chosen to do. For example, in my community one resident serves on the board of a local non-profit organization that provides low-cost housing. Another serves on a local land planning council. I am attempting to compile for Chuck a list of examples of such contributions and would greatly appreciate any examples that any of you could share with me. If you are willing to provide me with actual names of individuals and communities, that would be great. If not, could you please provide me with some demographic information about the contributing individual(s) (e.g., age, occupation, marital status, with or without children at home). Please include in your responses only examples from substantially constructed, occupied cohousing communities. I would also appreciate any correlations that contributors feel exist between their lives in cohousing and their contributions to the greater community (e.g., they have more free time as a result of living in cohousing, or cohousing values reinforce participation in the greater community). I would further appreciate the assistance of any Cohousing-L subscribers who would be willing to poll other members of their groups to help ferret out examples that might not come easily to mind. Please share this information (or at least a copy of same) with me by private email, since I do not always take the time to go through all of the cohousing-l postings. If you feel that other subscribers could benefit from the information, you can always post a copy of your private message to Cohousing-L. I hope that compiling this information will further the development of new cohousing communities. Thank you for your assistance! Dan Suchman (Winslow Cohousing Group) P.O. Box 11378 Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-5378 email: 71756.2661 [at] compuserve.com telephone & fax: (206) 842-9700
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