Taking the plunge to visit the community you’ve researched can be scary. Here are five tips to consider when contacting a community for the first time through ic.org.

A Q&A with Hank Gamel and Fran Biederman, about living in an intergenerational neighborhood called Hope Meadows. Excerpted from Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection edited by Samantha Paige Rosen.

“What being raised in an intentional community actually gives her is something less photogenic and far more profound. It is the daily presence of multiple trusted adults who are not her parents.” A perspective on what it is like to raise your child in community.

The history of the Intentional Communities movement runs deep, and the Foundation for Intentional Community was birthed from this movement more than 40 years ago. Read more about its history and the people who made it happen.

“The health of any community can be measured by their relationship to disagreement.” How any intentional community reaches connection has a lot to do with how they address disagreement.

How does capitalism influence our approach to community? And how does community change our relationship to capitalism? The two are not mutually exclusive.

There is a growing overlap of people previously from the military that end up in intentional community. Dave Booda explores how the culture of the military and the culture of intentional community are not as different as you might think.

Meet the young people opting out of society and building utopia for themselves. Read an excerpt from the full article published by Teen Vogue.

New to intentional community? Begin your understanding with this introductory to our shared terms and purpose.

A brief reflection from former FIC Executive Director, Sky Blue, about the presence of white supremacy culture in the IC movement.