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Tools, Reading & Practices

Resources

Curated tools, reading lists, and practices for building community resilience. Everything here is something we use, recommend, or host ourselves.

Self-Hosted Tools

Free, open-source tools we host on our own infrastructure. Available to community organizations and vulnerable populations. No ads, no tracking, no third-party data sharing.

CryptPad

End-to-end encrypted collaborative documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and forms. Zero-knowledge — we can't read your data.

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Privacy Tools & Apps

Recommended tools for protecting your data, communications, and digital life.

More links coming soon. If you have recommendations, get in touch.

Social Technology & Relational Practice

Practices and communities building the relational infrastructure that makes everything else work.

Authentic Revolution

Authentic Relating community and practice. Connection games, workshops, and facilitation training.

Relateful

Online Circling and relational practice. Drop-in sessions for genuine human connection.

UpTrust

Trust-graph ranking and relational technology. Building trust without centralization.

Art of Hosting

Participatory leadership and facilitation. World Café, Open Space, Circle Practice, and other conversation architectures.

Circles of Trust (Parker Palmer)

A practice of deep listening where no one fixes, saves, advises, or corrects. Based on the work of Parker J. Palmer and the Center for Courage & Renewal.

Community Infrastructure & Commons

Organizations and platforms building shared infrastructure for the common good.

Shareable

Nonprofit media outlet covering the sharing economy, cooperatives, and commons-based solutions.

News & Media Integrity

Tools and sources for understanding what the news is actually telling you — and what it's leaving out.

Sensus Communis

Live news divergence analysis across global sources. See which stories are told differently — and why. A Gifted Dreamers fiscal sponsee.

Reading Lists

Books, articles, and deep reading on the topics that matter.

Amazon reading list and book recommendations coming soon.

Toolkits & Playbooks

Step-by-step guides for building community resilience infrastructure.

Playbooks and toolkits coming soon.

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