Let's talk about a hard truth about voting and community networks....

[A community network is a group of people commited to making their community better, only this.]

[The ideal number of members is twelve.]

[Those involved should ideally not know each other too well because when they share friends it reduces the number of people the group can call upon. Think coworkers, religious group, community sports.]

[When it gets to eighteen people, the group naturally splits into two. When each of those splits into two, create a C group to direct activities and keep everyone on the same page.]

[via fort bragg ada odb odc.]

[If food insecurity is a specific issue, you'll want to recruit someone who is familiar with this and who also has a B group.]

[To recruit: look for people who post about problems on social media and want to fix them; look to other activist groups; people you have helped can become a resource to ask for help.]

[Just because someone needs help doesn't mean that they're helpless: they can have skills that complement your needs despite being in need of help.]

[Anti-authoritarian leftists and small-government conservatives can be good allies at the local level.]

[When you are going to do something, make a public request to the local politicians, knowing that they don'won't do anything. Then do it yourself and over time point out how you did ask, and that they repeatedly did nothing, and that your group did it.]

[Keep the mission simple, like 'to better the community'.]