A US-based 501(c)(3), incorporated in 1986, that serves the intentional communities movement — ecovillages, cohousing, and other shared-living communities — as a resource hub, publisher, network builder, and fiscal sponsor. It runs the ic.org directory where communities worldwide list themselves (self-submitted listings, which this site doesn't mirror), a Needs & Offers board for openings and housing, the Communities bookstore, podcasts, and CommUniversity: online courses, webinars, and virtual tours of real communities, many free or pay-what-you-can. Its stated mission is social, ecological, and economic justice and resiliency through cooperative culture and intentional communities. Its team works remotely around the world, and in 2026 it launched a shared website and directory with the Global Ecovillage Network.
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A two-hour online panel from the Foundation for Intentional Community on how cooperatives, community land trusts, cohousing, and multigenerational households make housing affordable in practice — and keep it that way. Five practitioners talk candidly about what has worked and what has been hard: longtime organizer and former FIC executive director Sky Blue, intergenerational-living researcher Savannah Fishel, Madison community land trust and cohousing board member Beth Welch, LIFT Economy's Erin Axelrod, and Hugh Farrell of the Indiana Cooperative Development Center. Includes audience Q&A. Pay-what-you-can, starting at $0. 12-2pm CT.
Six Wednesdays, 10am-12pm CT, on Zoom: October 28; November 4, 11, and 18; December 2 and 9, 2026 (no class on November 25). · starts Oct 28, 2026 · until Dec 9, 2026 · schedule confirmed Oct 21, 2026
A six-week live online course from the Foundation for Intentional Community, taught by Jahia de Rose, on how equity and power show up inside intentional communities — across class and wealth, national origin, language, race, gender, and ownership stakes — and what to do about it. Covers foundational equity principles, communication strategies, transformative governance models, conflict navigation, and tactics for redistributing power, in everyday language. Each class is recorded and posted within 24 hours, with a discussion group for participants. Paid: prices on the course page start from $80, with $120 also listed.
A beginner-friendly two-hour online workshop from the Foundation for Intentional Community, led by Lee Warren, for people thinking about joining an intentional community. It works through assessing what you need, what you can offer, and what makes a community a good match, and ends with drafting a preliminary letter to your future community. Pay-what-you-can, starting at $0. 1-3pm CT.
Checked Oct 21, 2026 for ways to get involved: found the events listed above, and found a community this site can't list yet.
Found, but this site has no way to show it yet:
Events come from each CommUniversity page, not the /events collection, which is empty ("No Community in this collection") — the self-contradiction RESEARCH_QUEUE.md warned about. CommUniversity pages list times in US Central (the site's timezone is America/Chicago). Added: the Affordable Housing panel, the Equity & Power Dynamics course, Community Seeking 101, and the Oak Park Commons virtual tour. Left out: "Welcome Home" (2026-11-12), a launch party for the new FIC/GEN directory aimed at communities updating their listings; and the self-paced library courses (Finding Your Community, Starting a Community), which have no date. The Virtual Tour series is ongoing but publishes no cadence, so only the dated tour is listed; past tours are on FIC's YouTube channel. Needs & Offers is a classifieds board, not a discussion space, and each course's discussion group is only for enrolled students.