**Who:** Facilitators, civic hosts, local leaders, and social innovators implementing open civic systems in place. **Essence:** _Those who turn frameworks into lived practice._ Organizers embody civic imagination at the community level — weaving relationships, context, and participation. ### **What They Do** - Mobilize communities around local civic needs and opportunities - Adapt open protocols for participatory governance and local culture - Facilitate assemblies, workshops, and collective decision-making - Connect local action to global learning through documentation and storytelling ### **What They Learn** - Facilitation, hosting, and participatory governance - Translating global frameworks to local realities - Tools for collective intelligence and coordination ### **What They Contribute** - Implementation stories and cultural adaptations - Feedback on what works (and what doesn’t) in practice - Local prototypes and methods for replication elsewhere ### **What They Get** - Access to tested frameworks and playbooks - Peer support and mentorship from other organizers - Potential funding for local initiatives - Connection to innovators and patrons for long-term resilience ### **Why Participate** - **Purpose & Meaning:** Bring civic imagination to life in your own community. - **Connection:** Join a network of place-based changemakers learning together. - **Learning:** Gain access to participatory facilitation and coordination tools. - **Support:** Receive funding and resources for community initiatives. **Participation Rhythm:** Cyclic — tied to local initiatives, events, and community rhythms. **Example:** A neighborhood organizer implementing a mutual aid network using open civic coordination tools, then sharing learnings with others globally.