We create opportunities for community members to get to know one another, build trust and empathy, and practice civil discourse.
Let’s Get Together!
Our monthly(ish) free event series focuses on fostering social connection, belonging, and bridge building. Through rotating formats and subjects, we bring together community members to forge relationships that support individual and collective wellbeing. Recent events include:
Let’s Talk! Death, Dying & Grief
Let’s Sing! Holiday Edition
Let’s Play! Mobile Children’s Museum
Let's Watch! Outdoor Movie Nights
Let's Dance! Community Social Dance
Visit our Events page to learn more about our upcoming gatherings.
Community Forums
Our most popular events, these bi-annual town hall-style gatherings bring together local experts and 100+ community members to foster respectful public discourse around hot topics relevant to Sisters Country. Complemented by robust resource guides and more intimate educational gatherings (e.g. book clubs, debrief meetings, workshops), the conversations are designed to empower community members and encourage additional collective action to address local challenges.
Recent conversations have focused on senior services, wildfire preparedness, social isolation, and housing affordability.
Land of 1,000 Picnics
With support from Ford Family Foundation, our micro-grant program offers $150 stipends for community members and groups hosting neighborhood gatherings.
The premise is simple – sharing a meal with neighbors is a powerful way to build community connection, resiliency, and belonging. And in increasingly polarized times, that feels more important than ever.
Sisters Country Civility Project
Based on community input, Citizens4Community launched the Sisters Country Civility Project in February 2016 to encourage civil discourse throughout Sisters Country. The program advocates for the use of 9 basic tenets offered by the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation’s Speak Your Peace initiative and P.M. Forni’s book Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct.
These tenets are presented on our “9+1 Tool Cards,” which are available for use and display by local individuals, groups and businesses. The cards offer useful “terms of engagement,” appropriate for fostering respectful dialogue everywhere from the kitchen table to city hall.