Community Stories
People, partnerships, traditions, and experiences shaping our community.
Community Stories articles
A Story 46 Years in the Making, and It Needs You to Write the Next Chapter
On September 16, 1981, a small group of neighbors sat down in a room together and did something quietly radical: they decided that the stories of our community, the everyday ones, the ones that don't usually make it into history books, were worth saving. Read more
Why Founders’ Day Matters
I’ve spent most of my career as a fundraiser, and I’ve coached a lot of people who were terrified of asking for support. There’s a cultural bias many of us carry, one I understand completely, that asking for a gift means asking someone to give and get nothing back. It’s not true. It never has been. Read more