My foray into racial justice work has been synchronistic at best; haphazard, frightening and intimidating on the reverse. The bottom line for me has been a sense of personal responsibility for being the best human possible. Here’s what I’ve learned so far.

No matter what, change comes to people and places. Whether by choice or circumstance, staff leaders will transition, board members will come and go, and organizations will evolve and change. Read more about how organizations like Commonplace navigate leadership transitions to embrace and manage change.

We’re working to create a Commonplace Community Agreement. This agreement will make the implicit culture of Commonplace explicit and it will empower our members to better build the kind space we all wish to inhabit. Here’s how the process is unfolding.

So, we did a clickbate-y thing and asked ChatGPT to write a blog on coworking. Here's what it came up with...

After conversations with the current owners of The Box, we have jointly agreed that February will be our last month managing the 2nd floor office space. So here’s a look back and a look forward at this interesting building we’ve been proud to call home for the last handful of hopeful years.

Commonplace and Commongrounds are two mission-aligned, but independent organizations. We have separate staff, boards, budgets, and  work. Here are some ways in which we’re aligned but different!

Patagonia hasn’t always been the perfect paradigm of the triple-bottom line. Here are a few big takeaways from the company’s history and from founder and (former) owner Yvon Chouinard’s Let My People Go Surfing.

"I sum it up by saying Street Outreach brings resources to help people in their homelessness right where they are.” Learn more about Goodwill’s Street Outreach program and The Northwest Coalition to End Homelessness from Commonplacer Ryan Hannon.