Citizen Collective

 Citizen Collective: a community leading and learning for a #CitizenFuture and home of the How To Save Democracy Podcast -  a podcast about repairing our relationship with democracy, hosted by Omezzine Khelifa and Jon Alexander 

Since the book Citizens by Jon Alexander came out in March 2022, we've met SO MANY people who are working with the logic of what Jon talked about in the book as the "Citizen Story": the idea that all of us are smarter than any of us, and that the best way to face the challenges of our time is to tap into the ideas, energy and resources of everyone. 

It's happening in local communities all over the world, in workplaces and professional communities across sectors, and even in whole national and local governments. What's become clear is that this energy could create a very different future from the default dystopias that seem most likely to be in the headlines of our times - if we can connect the dots, learn from one another, and make the whole more than the sum of the parts. 

That's what Citizen Collective started out to make possible - for all of us who are trying to do this work, trying to build this future, to be able to see that we're not the only ones, and to be able to learn from one another as we do it. 

Through this journey, we've learned that the most impactful way we can support this work is by backing the people and projects already doing tangible citizen-led work in their communities. So we're exploring what it might look like to evolve into infrastructure that supports established citizen-led initiatives - helping with things like fiscal sponsorship, shared resources, and connection opportunities.