Five essential needs. A shared commitment to progress.
Community priorities, practical planning, and partnerships.
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Project
Project name and description
Current stage
Planning, in progress, upcoming, or complete
What progress means.
Listen
Understand community priorities.
Prepare
Plan thoughtfully together.
Last updated
Date of most recent update
Learn
Adapt through experience.
Voices from the SOIL.
Stories from community members, partners, and neighbors.
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We’d love to hear from you.
Next step
What comes next
Share
Keep the community informed.
Help the next chapter take shape.
A future communities can own.
Built to last. Designed to sunset.
Prepare
Lay the groundwork with communities.
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Our goal: human-first systems communities own and sustain.
Build together
Implement and strengthen local systems.
If a project needs more time
We will publish a project-specific transition plan.
Hand over
Transition ownership and support long-term success.
Success is what continues after us.
Ownership with a community voice.
Proposed structure
Local representation
Community voices help shape decisions.
Shared decisions
Collaborative governance.
Clear responsibilities
Defined roles for long-term success.
Final ownership, representation and stewardship terms to be published.
Where we stand today.
Goals, milestones and next steps—clearly separated.
Water initiative
EXAMPLE UPDATE FORMAT
Location
To be confirmed
Stage
Last updated
Planning
Completed Milestone
To be confirmed
Next step
To be confirmed
To be confirmed
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