Overview: The CommUnity Zone Lewisburg

- What we do -

Organizational Empowerment

By leveraging our network of Partners and Patrons, we make resources and connections available to organizations.

Individual 
Empowerment

And people just need a place where you can give back.and be involved. ​Improving quality of life in a personal way is easier than you might think. Technology tutoring is one way. Helping other in need is another. 

Community
Engagement

Sometimes communities need to heal. Sometimes community groups want to share. Sometimes people want to take address a need. We are committed to help make that possible.
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How we do it

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. 
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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

"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

Joan Chittister: The Time is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage

In all my years of traveling around the world, one thing has been present in every region, everywhere and has convinced me of the certain triumph of the great human gamble to equality and justice. 

Everywhere there are people who, despite finding themselves mired in periods of national darkness or personal marginalization refuse to give up the thought of a better future or give in to the allurements of a deteriorating present. They never lose hope that the values they learned in the best of times or the courage it takes to reclaim their world from the worst of times are worth the commitment of their lives. These people, the best of ourselves, are legion and they are everywhere. 

They are the prophets of each era who prod the rest of the world into seeing newly what it means to be fully alive, personally, nationally, and spiritually. 

It is to these average but courage people who forever seek the truth, defend the weak, bring the peace, and always always, always stand up to protest injustice,