People over profit, communities over corporations!

Placeholder image for Foundation for Intentional Community website.
J McCune Porter
  • April 25, 2017
Foundation for Intentional Community logo on a building with community members outside.

People Over Profit, Communities Over Corporations!
Soon to be posted on the FIC Blog
Sky Blue

A long-time, low-rent community building in East Oakland could become a giant playground for big tech–or stay an affordable, people-of-color-led social justice center, with your help!

This multi-use space includes:

  • The Bikery, part of Cycles of Change, a community bike shop
  • Sustaining Ourselves Locally, a Queer & Trans People Of Color collectively-run house and community garden
  • Shaolin Life, a martial arts and self-defense studio
  • Liberating Ourselves Locally, a people of color-led maker/hacker space
  • and is home to a diverse group of low-income people of color who want to stay in their homes!

Please support this crowdfunding campaign! As of writing this, they’ve raised $62K of the $75K needed. Follow this link to find out more and make a donation.

This group is partnering with the Oakland Community Land Trust, POC Sustainable Housing Network, Sustainable Economies Law Center and Northern California Community Loan Fund, to put together the legal and financial pieces in place to keep this community intact.

We need spaces like this to exist. We need communities of empowered people working for a better future for everyone. We need the people most impacted by society’s problems to have control over the space and resources they need to help address these problems in meaningful ways for themselves and the world.

Comments

Featured Blogs

Keep the conversation going with these pieces

Arjuna da Silva
Tue Dec 2010
  • Living in community
  • Relationships
For many baby boomers, taking on the mantle of eldership means transforming the sometimes rambunctious, in-your-face, empowerment-obsessed energy they worked so hard to sustain.
Saul Of-Hearts
Thu Jun 2016
  • Economics & Law
Last year, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced its “Smart City Challenge,” a contest that will award one mid-sized city with $50 million in funding to improve its transportation networks. The USDOT hopes the selected city will become a role model for implementing safer, more energy-effic…
Codicts Team
Tue Dec 2023
by Harvey BakerWatch the video to hear FIC board member, Harvey Baker, talk about FIC’s history using our community beads!
Molly
Wed Jan 2008
  • New to community
While not a commune in the traditional sense, the residents of 475 Kent Avenue in Brooklyn, NY describe their home as a kibbutz or commune. Unfortunately they were all evicted a few days ago due to the building being a fire hazard. Evidently the building was not even supposed to have residential spa…
Sky Blue
Thu Nov 2017
  • Governance
Photo by Ben Hejkal be********@***il.com Alyson Ewald is a former Board member of the FIC. Full bio below. For more 30th blog posts click here. This morning I gave a tour of our homestead at Red Earth Farms to a dozen pe…
Dan Schultz
Thu Jul 2016
  • Living in community
  • Relationships
At Maitreya Mountain Village, mainstream pragmatism meets radical idealism.
Saul Of-Hearts
Sat Jul 2016
  • Economics & Law
Although not as famous as some of his contemporaries, the French thinker Charles Fourier was one of the early visionaries of the intentional community movement. A utopian socialist, he proposed that society should be organized into Phalansteres, or “grand hotels,” each housing several hundred to sev…
Marcus Gardner
Mon Feb 2008
  • Sustainability
The big media splash in cohousing these days is about Senior or Elder Cohousing, and some might say cohousing’s core constituency is among the boomer generation. But recent posts on Trendcentral and Treehugger are noting that cohousing also has appeal for Gen X and Gen Y. A lifestyle trend that firs…
Devon Bonady
Mon Jan 2015
  • Living in community
  • Relationships
Avoiding computers can mean losing out on connecting with others when one is desperate for connection, yet a rich, computer-free, community-based social life is also possible.
Saul Of-Hearts
Thu Apr 2017
  • Sustainability
A new pilot program in Portland, OR, is exploring an unconventional way to reduce homelessness in the city. Relying on $350,000 in funding, the county will pay for the cost of building a tiny house in a homeowner’s backyard – under the condition that a homeless family can live there for five years. …

Insights & Stories from the Communities Movement

Subscribe to our newsletter for fresh stories and community updates delivered to your inbox.

Join the Communiversity Community

Get unlimited access to courses, exclusive member events, and a supportive network of community builders

Unlimited Learning

Access all courses, books, and premium content

Community Network

Member-only workshops and community builders

Exclusive Events

Member-only workshops and gatherings

Update to a Public Profile

  • Log in
  • Go to your profile page
  • Toggle on the "Add my profile to the directory"
  • Save your profile

Information

Communities

A residential project: people live here as their primary home.

Organizations

An institution, business, network, or project that isn’t a residence (e.g. a learning center, farm, or network with no one living there full-time).

Plus Community Membership

  • Find people with Profile Match
  • Access to your community listing statistics
  • Create Discussion Groups
  • Access to our affiliate program
  • Member badge on your community profile
I am an official member of this community
Disclaimer
I affirm that my information is accurate and I am authorized to manage this listing
Foundation for Intentional Community FIC Member badge logo.

Free Plan

Free Membership
Free

Intentional Advertising

  • Subtotal

    {{ currencyFormat( pricing_summary.total_amount ) }}

Icon representing community connections and collaboration for intentional communities.

Plus Membership

We’re introducing new Plus features — including community reviews, Profile Match, and unlimited Needs & Offers posts — while keeping most of FIC free for everyone. Membership costs less than two coffees a month. 

  • Find communities with Profile Match
  • View detailed reviews about communities
  • Create free listings in Needs & Offers
  • Plus Member resources in CommUniversity
  • View communities detailed reviews
  • Plus Member badge on your profile