Join The Happy Community Builders Network

Elevate your community impact with like-minded people around the world!

Connect, share, find resources and co-create

You bring together people who believe communities are fundamental to happiness. Isn’t it time you met others who do the same?

Attention community leaders, connectors, builders, organizers, volunteers and advocates.

We see you there, tirelessly changing the status quo of your own community. In a way that brings about deep positive change.

In fact, there are millions of people around the world, just like you, trying to make their communities happier places. In so many different projects and initiatives, we can’t even possibly begin to list them all. But no doubt you can identify with the challenges of:

Creating intergenerational connectedness.
Replacing divisiveness with a common sense of purpose.
Breaking the cycle of harmful systems like bigotry, racism and misogyny
Combating gentrification or erasure of your community’s diverse history
Providing dignity and support to citizens who feel alone, unwanted and abandoned
Creating change without being bogged down by bureaucracy, politics, pettiness and other distractions that compromise progress

You are making a difference in your community. And for that, we thank you.

We also know this work can be incredibly frustrating and lonely at times…

Where do community change-makers like you go to be connect with other Change makers?

Where do you go to feel supported, connect with other people facing the same challenges and share ideas and resources?

Where do you go

To find help to make the right decisions?
To co-create brand new initiatives, get advice, and get mentorship from more established volunteers and organizers?
To help spread the word to other communities facing similar issues around the world?
To connect with other people who understand the highs and lows when disrupting the status-quo?
To learn about new skills and opportunities that can fast-track community initiatives to success?

Where do you go to connect with your supporting network who understand?

Being a change maker doesn’t have to be a lonely and frustrating journey. In fact, your very own community is waiting to meet you.

Check out Happy Community Builders for yourself.

We created a place where community builders can connect, share and co-create in a sandbox of ideas.

Imagine being able to…

Talk candidly with someone who also understands what it’s like to be a community builder with a project, and can help you move forward.
Get feedback on your initiative with others who understand the complexities you have to deal with.
Share your experiences, resources and skills with others around the world.
See your big vision through with resources and tools created specifically with change makers in mind.
Feel part of a global movement of connectedness, without leaving your own doorstep.

many people like you have told us this is what they want. And for so many others like you, we made it happen.

Introducing Happy Community Builders: a global network designed specifically for community change makers

The Happy Community Builders Network is unique and we want you to be a part of it. Because we made it just for you.

We called it “Happy Community Builders” because that’s how we see you. An awesome force building capacity and change in your community for the better. We created a space where people like you believe communities are fundamental to our happiness. To meet others who believe the same thing, share ideas, and form action groups.

So that community builders like you can get out of reactive mode into visionary mode. So that together we can change local and global community stories where Happy Communities are First Priority.

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What is this ‘network’, exactly?

Happy Community Builders is a safe place for community change makers, leaders and advocates to gather together online. It acts as both a way for you to reach out and connect with other people, as well as a repository for what you need to succeed:

Monthly meetups called “Coffee Connections” where Members gather on Zoom to about specific topics related to making change happen
Weekly meet and greets where you get to meet others from around the world.
Chat function to connect with people in a safe environment not connected with any social media platform
Breakout areas for specific work and topics such as fundraising, community engagement and community development
Opportunity to present to the network about your current initiative, experience or topic you think will help others with their cause
Access to community builder resources provided by the Happy Community Project and other members

All at a low pay-what-you-can (or not at all) fee. Because while we do have operational costs to maintain, we believe all Members should have equal privileges and responsibilities no matter where they live.

We’re still in early days, so you are in a unique situation to contribute and shape this network into what you need it to be the most!

Who will get the most out of this network?

You will fit right in with Happy Community Builders if you care about your community and want to share that experience with other like-minded people. To us, being a community ‘builder’ can mean a variety of things, but often such folks are:

Doers and organizers of existing initiatives who are looking to improve their impact and operations
Advocates and change makers who want better than the ‘status quo’ they see around them but don’t know where to start.
People working within not-for-profits on focused concerns.
Those new to their community and notice a problem that needs to be solved.
Those who have lived in their community and want something better.
Those who have experience, insight or skills that they want to share.

Happy Communities are fundamentally important

Communities are fundamental to being human. We have lived in supportive communities since time immemorial and it is only in the last 40 years where we have replaced the idea of community with self-reliance. Covid has woken us up to how mistaken the idea of self-reliance is. We need each other.

Happy Communities are places where people like you and your neighbours can experience personal integrity while enjoying sufficiency, security, social connectedness, belonging and mutual caring. Happy Communities exist in harmony with nature and welcome creative thought and difference.

Happy Communities Make a Better World. When all people live in happy communities, most other problems will disappear. We won’t need as much and we will be happier.