strategic. Impact networks build on the life force of community—shared principles, resilience, self-organization, and trust—while leveraging the advantages of an effective organization, including a common aim, an operational backbone, and a bias for action.

1. Build or Join a Community of Kinship: find or found a community that purports to fulfill the needs of its members through participatory governance and voluntary participation.


2. Identify other related or resonating communities: find communities that share the same “pattern integrity.”


3. Encourage the