Quote of the week
Nobody is coming to fix your town. That is the bad news and the good news in the same sentence.
Updated weekly
Home / Community
Join the
Conversation!
This is where it keeps going between events — the blog, the forum, and two things we change every week. Pull up a chair.
Question of the day
What is the one thing about your town you would fix first — and who actually has the power to fix it?
Add your answer
Updated daily
From the blog
What people are talking about
Running your first town hall
Room, agenda, timekeeper, follow-up. The four things that separate a meeting from a nice chat.
How to read your town’s budget
It is a public document, it is usually online, and you can learn more from an hour with…
How to start a chapter in your town
Three people and a standing date is a chapter. Everything after that is logistics.
From the Field
What people are saying
Real notes from real people who held a meeting this month.
“First time our town council has had fifty people in the room for a zoning vote. Two of our chapter members spoke. The ordinance was tabled for sixty days.”
Sarah M. · Chapter lead, Lancaster County, PA
“We didn’t wait for Washington to fix our school boards. We started right here in our own community with three people.”
Marcus Vance · Ohio
“The host kit gave us the agenda to turn a backyard barbecue into an ongoing monthly town-hall group.”
Elena R. · Host, Texas
Stay in it
Find us where you already are
New here? Start with the Dispatch, then answer today’s question. Someone from your nearest chapter reads every answer.
Get Involved