Hilltown Families 
Common Good Tools for a New Economy
Offers & Needs Board for the Hilltowns and Beyond
We’re in this together. Use Common Good’s online Offers & Needs bulletin board to offer help and ask for help from your friends and neighbors in any community in the United States. No sign-up needed. Go to CommonGood.earth and click on the red Offers & Needs button!
The nonprofit Common Good provides innovative economic tools for local use. During this time of widespread social distancing to combat coronavirus, it’s up to us, as a community, to make sure we all have what we need. So Common Good created and launched a free online Offers & Needs Bulletin Board, where anyone, anywhere in the US, can offer help and ask for help from their neighbors.
Whether it’s a home-cooked meal, a ride to the drugstore, or an hour of childcare, we can use the Offers & Needs board to make it happen. The online bulletin board can help people expand their scope in addressing community needs in bigger ways too. Kirsten Levitt, the director of the Stone Soup Café in Greenfield, MA, used the Offers & Needs bulletin board to find more drivers in communities beyond where the café customarily serves its free, hot meals on Saturdays. “Demand on our service exploded the first Saturday after social distancing went into effect,” Kirsten says. “We’ll only be able to expand capacity to meet demand … with tools like these because we need more volunteers in communities we don’t normally serve. It’s a time for all hands on deck, and Offers & Needs can help.”
Common Good’s director William Spademan says, “our tools for a new economy reflect core values of community resilience and caring about the people around us. Now more than ever, we want to do everything we can to encourage mutual support at the community level.” William adds, “it’s really about neighbors helping neighbors in small ways to make a big impact, without depending on government assistance. It’s how we build an economy that works for everyone, a common good economy.”
Submitted by William Spademan, Directory, Common Good
