Cohousing-L Mailing List: Remember to post your Cohousing Month event on the Community Calendar

[Raines Cohen (rc3-coho-L]

Hi, all. National Cohousing Month is less than a week away! Can you feel it?

I note that while we have around 3 dozen of your events listed on the
National Cohousing Alliance's Community Calendar, there's a bunch more that
I'm only seeing on your websites, in your newsletters, or on your Facebook
feeds.

So please do list any event, be it an open house or a house concert or a
virtual tour or a work party or games night or whatever, on the calendar so
we can celebrate it and send folks your way, plus build your visibility
among future neighbors and the community of cohousing communities at large.

Just go to:
https://www.cohousing.org/events-2/

and log in to the site if you aren't already (this is an important step,
and you may find yourself stuck AFTER filling out the form if you don't log
in, and get an error about a required image being missing).

If you don't have a login, perhaps someone else in your community does.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This is the login you may have used for classified ads and
Directory entry editing, NOT your Cohousing Institute login used for
classes. Don't worry about this difference long term, the two are getting
merged next week as part of big changes coming to the site.

If you can't make the form work, go ahead send me a link to a public
posting for your community event and I can get it up there. It does need a
photo, date and time, an address, an RSVP link if you have one (or a zoom
link or registration link for virtual events), and just the basic
description.

Please do include something about the name and/or location of the community
in the event name, to make it easier to distinguish among all the events
named just "national cohousing open house." If it's something unique, start
with that. The group name and location does show up in your listing
anyways, but this helps make it clearer and gives people a good reason to
click on it.

Thanks in Advance for being a part of National Cohousing Month! Let's have
some fun with it, build the movement, share the joy, surprise, and
connection of our unique member-led cooperative communities.

Raines, co-organizer, National Cohousing Month 2026
living at Berkeley (CA) Cohousing
  where we are a stop on the East Bay Cohousing Crawl (listed on the
cohousing.org community calendar linked above), and we're already seeing so
many RSVPs that we are staggering arrival times / order of stops for
different participants so we don't get too many at once - although we know
from experience that some will be no-shows. We're delighted to say that two
different families who came to last year's Crawl are now part of our
extended community, part of our meals program.