What is Common?
At the heart of our contribution is Common, which we’re developing to serve as the digital backbone for economic democracy.
Common is a digital platform that connects people, organizations, and resources to coordinate and grow economic democracy to global scale. Designed through years of deep collaboration and experimentation with visionary communities, Common addresses real unmet needs—enabling communities to attract resources and decide together how to use them based on shared values. Through Common, organizers, entrepreneurs, funders, and members of any community can create new forms of cooperation that aren’t possible in the current system.
We’re starting by supporting existing community-led organizations and participatory funds worldwide. As Common grows, it will enable more forms of economic cooperation, helping us transition from experiments to an interconnected alternative system to the current economy.