Cohousing-L Mailing List: Fwd: Communities magazine as a pathway to community

[Communities Editor (editor]

Dear /Communities/ friend/contributor,

Thank you again for your support of and contributions to /Communities/. 
I'm forwarding excerpts from the most recent FIC eNews, highlighting the 
ways (beyond contributing articles) that friends of /Communities/ can 
access more of our offerings and share the magazine with others. Please 
feel free to forward to anyone you think may be interested--and consider 
supporting us in one or more of the ways outlined below.

Our next theme announcement will follow in a few days.

Thanks again for your interest and support!
Chris

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Subject:        Communities magazine as a pathway to community
Date:   28 Aug 2014 08:21:12 -0400
From:   Intentional Communities <noreply [at] ic.org>
Reply-To:       Intentional Communities <pubslist [at] ic.org>
To:     cnroth [at] gmail.com



WWW.IC.ORG masthead <http://www.ic.org>
*/Communities/ magazine as a Pathway to Community**
Laird Schaub, **FIC Executive Secretary*
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*Originally published in **Community and Consensus* 
<http://communityandconsensus.blogspot.com/2014/07/yours-with-words.html>

[I]n 1992...I negotiated FIC becoming the publisher of /Communities/ 
magazine...

*/Communities magazine 
<http://www.ic.org/communities-magazine-home/>Communities/ as a Pathway 
to Community. *Even though publishing our quarterly magazine steadily 
loses money (we've finished in the black only twice in 22 years), it's 
something that FIC holds dear and we're doing everything in our power to 
keep it in print. The magazine was first launched in 1972, and has 
established itself as the source for information and inspiration about 
community living and cooperative culture.

We cover the *Intentional Communities Movement* in its full breadth: 
from cohousing to ecovillages; from ashrams to student co-ops; from 
group houses to agricultural communes.

At its best, /Communities/ chronicles both the triumphs and the 
heartaches of cooperative living. We take you behind the scenes to 
examine what challenges people are encountering, and what solutions they 
are discovering in their day-to-day experiences of living together.

*Cooperative living is messy business and we try to cover it all*. We 
don't sugar coat it, and we let authors disagree about the lessons to be 
learned. Our editorial mission is not to promulgate a party line; it's 
to make the lines shorter for getting into the party. If there's one 
thing we've learned from living in community, it's that we're all in 
this together and we're only able to do our best work when we listen to 
everyone's piece of the truth.

*How You Can Help. *This is where you come in. Nothing would make a more 
immediate impact on our bottom line than new subscribers. If you do not 
currently have a subscription, please consider clicking here 
<http://www.ic.org/subscribe/> and signing up. If you are a current 
subscriber, thank you!—and please consider giving a gift subscription 
<http://www.ic.org/community-bookstore/product/gift-subscription/> to a 
friend or loved one.

The timing couldn't be better! We've recently overhauled our website to 
offer content either as paper or plastic digital, and all back issues 
<http://www.ic.org/community-bookstore/category/communities-magazine/back-issues/> 
as either available *as in-print copies or as digital downloads*. We're 
also offering a completely revised collection of the /Best of 
Communities/ on 15 different themes, where we've gathered together 15-20 
of the best articles we've published on a topic (including Good 
Meetings; Leadership, Power, and Membership; Elders in Community; 
Challenges and Lessons of Community; and Cohousing) and created dynamite 
packets of 55-65 pages each. Buy one or buy them all.

For the truly inspired, we offer a complete back issue set 
<http://www.ic.org/community-bookstore/product/complete-set-of-back-issues-of-communities-magazine/>—all 
161 of them—for the bargain price of $500.

For those especially moved by what /Communities/ has meant to you and 
will continue to mean in our collective effort to manifest a more 
cooperative future, I invite you to consider making an earmarked 
tax-deductible donation 
<http://www.ic.org/community-bookstore/product/communities-magazine-donation/> 
in support of magazine operations. It all counts.

Your support today will help keep our cooperative flame burning 
brightly—and all of us cooperative authors in print (and off the street).

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Chris Roth
Editor, /Communities/
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