Northwest Intentional Communities Association (NICA)

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Intentional Community Resources

Getting Started	First steps to start a community, writing a vision statement, samples
Group Process	Meetings, decision making, conflict resolution.
Locating a Site	Locating and purchasing a site
Legal Resources	Lawyers, bylaws, legal documents, ownership forms
Community Design	Group design process, site, unit, and commonhouse design
Dealing with money	Working with banks, affordability
Building	Dealing with contractors and construction, alternative building sources
Recruiting members	Finding the people, selling your community homes
General resources	Books, articles, websites, papers, videos about Intentional Communities
Cohousing resources	Books, articles, websites, papers, and resources, specific to cohousing
Other resources to suggestion? nica --at-- ic --dot-- org

Note: Some of these resources are out-of-date, so you may find broken links and content issues. NICA hopes to upgrade this content in coming months.

Last Update: Aug 2, 2005

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