Overview: The CommUnity Zone Lewisburg
- What we do -
Organizational EmpowermentBy leveraging our network of Partners and Patrons, we make resources and connections available to organizations.
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How we do it
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OUR MISSION:
Empowering individuals and uniting community. We envision a community where all individuals, organizations, businesses, share ideas, talents, and resources in order to contribute to a connected, caring, healthy, and vibrant community. Have an idea? Come in and chat with us! We would love to help bring your vision to fruition. |
The goal of the CommUnity Zone is to help create a strong, diverse and thriving community in the Central Susquehanna Valley. We aim to foster the creation of a world characterized by equal opportunity for all racial, ethnic and gender identities, sexual orientations and religious and secular affiliations. We envision a community where all individuals, organizations, and businesses, share ideas, talents, and resources in order to contribute to a connected, caring, healthy, and vibrant community. It’s a grand idea, but one that deserves more of our attention. While each of us can make a difference, together we can make true and lasting change.
Our History
Co-Founders, Cynthia Peltier and Farida Zaid, 2012
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"The dream of the CommUnity Zone was in the back of my mind for a very long time. I do believe we are at a very important and unique moment in history as more and more people take a second look at the processes that govern our world and realize that we must all step up and take back control of our everyday lives. One important and essential step is to come together and look for ways to become more self-sufficient communities that do not just look outside for answers but instead to each other for solutions. The CommUnity Zone is an attempt to bring this dream to our community. The guidance, the inspiration and the energy we need is available to us if we just look to each other with that essential commitment to work together." - Cynthia Peltier, Director |
Mary Oliver on America
Something to ponder as we suffer through what seems like an irreconcilable state of affairs here in our country.
Below is a poem on America written by the great poet Mary Oliver.
Below is a poem on America written by the great poet Mary Oliver.
On the Empire
We will be known as a culture of feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, the rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
We will be known as a culture of feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, the rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.