Community-building resources
Resources that support building and maintaining healthy communities, online and off.
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Small Hassles Court
Small Hassles Court is a digital game where players practice different approaches to interpersonal conflict resolution and self-governance.
Dark Forest Operating System (DFOS)
DFOS is the infrastructure for new private internets. Where groupchats, members, money, and private feeds work together in one shared operating system.
WeLivedit.AI
Centering lived experience in managing online toxicity
Neighbourhood Warmth
Neighbourhood Warmth is our vision of a free, online platform that helps people to form teams around shared home energy challenges โ like retrofit assessments, draught-proofing, or energy flexibility.
Toyooka iDO
Toyooka iDO is a child-friendly web-based service by the Toyooka Smart Community that shares local events and facility information useful for parenting, is easy to access on smartphones without regist...
Qiqo
Qiqo is a trusted community hub of positive & useful local information to help you love where you live
Blacksky
Join the cookout
Common
Connect with aligned organizations and funders building a new economy together
The Awesome Foundation New Chapter Handbook
Our Neighborhood Today
A local events and community calendar system to keep neighbors informed about what's happening in their area.
Neighbor Story Sharing
A platform for collecting and sharing personal stories from community members to build connection and understanding among neighbors.
Neighborhood Association Hub
A digital platform for neighborhood associations to manage activities, communications, and member engagement online.
Block Party Organizing
Tools and resources for organizing neighborhood block parties, including planning templates, coordination features, and community engagement.
Hyperlocal Neighbor Hub
A hyperlocal neighbor hub that brings care, resources, and connection to a specific neighborhood or block.
Neighborhood API
A minimal, open, stewarded feed format for sharing local events, assets, dreams, plans, and notices across neighborhood websites, tools, and communities.
Local Supplies Sharing
A resource sharing system where neighbors can lend and borrow party supplies and event materials within their community.
Community Apps Dashboard
A dashboard or directory showcasing community-built digital tools and resources created by and for local residents.
Civic Switchboard
Civic Switchboard is an Institute of Museum and Library Services supported effort that aims to develop the capacity of academic and public libraries in civic data ecosystems.
Civic Switchboard Guide
[A] living document designed to help libraries become more engaged in their local civic data ecosystems [including a guide to mapping your ecosystem]
Hey there, neighbor!
Tool to make it effortless to meet people you live next to
The Relational Technology Project
We can build what we need for care and connection.
Smalltown
A fork of Mastodon designed for civic communities looking to run their own social networks.
Civic Tech Project & Community Handbook
From Taiwanโs g0v Community to the World: The Collaborative Wisdom of Digital Citizens
Community Partnerships Playbook
How to Create Equitable Partnerships between Technical and Community Experts
Simply Stakeholders
From advanced stakeholder mapping and relationship health tracking to sentiment and qualitative analysis, each feature works together to help your organization get more from your stakeholder relations...
The Community Networking Movement
They were locally controlled sites on the Internet that typically free services including training and hardware donations, as well as e-mail (years before Google and others got involved) web space, an...
To Community
To Community is a set of strategies for bonding companies to communities. Itโs also an open research program on how to transition society to new forms of community ownership and governance.
TrollWall.ai
AI-powered community management solution with human-level accuracy
Terran
A community of care and practice building systems and tools for a regenerative future
Code for Japan Notion community pages
Overview of joining and starting projects in the Code for Japan community
g0v Civic Tech Project & Community Handbook
Open handbook about g0v and how to form a civic tech community group
One Project
Weโre building tools for participatory funding connecting resources directly to community-controlled funds on Common, our digital platform that connects people, organizations, and resources to coordin...
Digital Community Stewards Online Course
A training program for digital community stewards (online group moderators and admins) focused on building social cohesion in online communities, and creating inclusive, engaging, and safe digital exp...
StuFiS
Open source financial management software for organizations (Die Finanzverwaltungssoftware)
Community Tool Box
The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change.
Equitable Community Engagement Toolkit
The City of Philadelphia aims to improve collaboration with communities. This website shares guidance on how to engage communities equitably.
Community Data Dialogues
Learn how to host events to engage non-technical audiences on open data
Team CommUNITY
Want to join the global digital rights and internet freedom community? We providing events, services, job board, community spaces, and more!
Community Power: The Evidence
The first research to take a comprehensive view of what community power looks like and to analyse evidence of the impact of community power.
Community Tech NY
Community-owned internet infrastructure
Community Tool Kit
A toolkit for communities to listen, tell stories, and imagine better futures together.
Community Rules: Simple Templates for Great Online Communities
A free e-book covering common patterns in open project governance
PolicyKit
A tool for building and evolving governance in online communities.
Civic tech community organizer toolkit
This guide is meant to provide key tips to help you establish successful hacknights.