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The Fellowship for Intentional Community's Non-profit Purposes
TO EMBRACE THE DIVERSITY THAT EXISTS AMONG COMMUNITIES
and to facilitate increased interaction between
communitarians and the wider culture;
TO BUILD COOPERATIVE SPIRIT WITHIN AND AMONG COMMUNITIES
through shared celebrations, joint ventures, and activities
that build awareness of our common humanity;
TO FACILITATE EXCHANGE
of information, skills, and economic support among
individuals, existing intentional communities, cooperative
groups, and newly forming communities;
TO SERVE AS A REFERENCE SOURCE
for those seeking intentional communities, conferences, and
other community building experiences and practices
appropriate to their needs;
TO SUPPORT EDUCATION, RESEARCH, ARCHIVES, AND PUBLISHING
about contemporary and historic intentional communities;
TO DEMONSTRATE PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
of communities, cooperatives, and their products and services
-- through seminars, catalogs, demonstration projects,
gatherings, and direct sales;
TO INCREASE GLOBAL AWARENESS
that intentional communities are pioneers in sustainable
living, personal and community transformation, and peaceful
social evolution.
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