Livable Future Co-op

If you are interested in visiting in person, please send us an email or letter sharing why you want to come, your skills and talents, and your vision.

Thanks so much...we look forward to hearing from you and hope that we can work together.

Coordinator, Founder Patricia Mikkelson
Email: livablefuture@yahoo.com
PO Box 192
Kingston AR 72742
Home: 479-665-2538
Office: 479-225-0047

Livable Future Co-op

Our Purpose and goals

Our purpose is to develop a training program that is free to all people who want to be servant leaders and team builders, and who want to help neighborhoods become thriving, self-reliant communities with localized economies.

One person can make a difference, especially if they have some skills, mentoring, coaching, and networking support. Thus we have the following goals:

1. To create a web site much like the www.nvcacademy.com which gathers all the best practices and information for neighborhood transformation.

2. To locate people who want to live in community and/or work on-line and focus on this project.

3. To have a pilot program at the Farm Neighborhood in Fayetteville and Living Springs Community in Kingston

4. To network and create a coalition with all the people who are doing great things in neighborhoods.

5. To get funding for the actual project, and to offer stipends to the Community Facilitators.

6. To have 10,000 Community Facilitators making a phenomenal difference by March 2008.

Our Vision

Imagine thousands of people -- of all skills and abilities, all income levels, all ages, colors and creeds -- coming together in their neighborhood, agreeing on a dream for their community in which no one is left out, and then acting together to make it real.


... Individuals, families, community groups, businesses, churches, nonprofits and schools together taking ownership of their economic and cultural lives, creating a unified voice, multiplying opportunities for youth and adults to lead lives with purpose and meaning.


... People acting like true citizens, taking pride in their shared commitment to community, working on their own and in partnership with government to make the place where they live safe, prosperous and beautiful for all.


. . . Everywhere, the world building community this way -- year after year, generation after generation -- in neighborhoods, towns and cities, regions and countries, transforming our government, society, and planet.


... Reconnecting us all, neighbor to neighbor, person to planet, making the world whole.


We can create this world?…together. Will you join us?

from Neighborhood Assembly Network www.sfnan.org

How to get involved

On-line community: join our yahoo group by sending an email to
facilitatortraining-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Rural community: Join us in creating and living in a demonstration community in our rural land, one hour from Fayetteville.

Urban community: We rent a small house (very cheap) in a great neighborhood that will serve as an urban pilot program where some residents can live, and still be connected to the rural community