The research confirms what experience, and common sense, tells us: individual and community health and wellbeing are linked to how connected people are to their neighbors, from the family next door to the person who rings up your groceries.

Our goal is to create a lasting, flexible resource that will continue strengthening this community for generations.

There are many reasons people live in this beautiful county, and chief among them is chance to live in ways that are less anonymous and more engaged in your community than the big city offers.

We would love to see each community create local advisory boards to direct these funds, build them to the point that they sustain themselves and disperse money to whatever matters most to community members.