Helping communities work

Helping Communities Work (HCW) is a funding, investing and cross-sector financial leveraging strategy designed to advance entrepreneurship education, mentoring and small business development. HCW focuses on the fields of public interest communications, publishing, technology and law. The plan envisions these fields as a collective emerging industry, capable of demonstrating that diversity is a community asset, intergenerational collaboration is a vital resource and digital equity and inclusion are catalysts for change.  

HCW also functions to help ensure the continuing growth and sustainability of the open source software ecosystem while advancing digital equity through the collaborative and entrepreneurial power of the pen. 

HCW is researching the Fediverse and how the ActivityPub protocol can form the connective tissue required for small businesses to help achieve digital equity and other societal imperatives. HCW recognizes the Community Reinvestment Act as a raodmap for nonprofit capacity and field-building to align and advance community engagement, reinvestment and compliance.