How:

Registered users of www.communitycommons.org have FREE access to:

• Over 7000 GIS data layers at state, county, zip code, block group, tract, and point-levels.
• Contextualized mapping, visualization, analytic, impact and communication tools and apps.
• Searchable profiles of hundreds of place-based community initiatives (multi-sector collaboratives) working towards healthy/sustainable/livable/equitable communities - funded by government and private philanthropy - complete with text & video narratives on "what's working."
• Peer learning forums in the "interactive commons" with colleagues exploring similar interests and challenges - hosted by leading national TA providers.

The Commons is a democratized learning and innovation platform for:

• enhancing the reach and impact of currently-funded place based investments;
• applying an asset-based approach to help grow and sustain impact once the funding is over;
• supporting communities of highest burden who neither have grant financing, nor cohorts.