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Plaid Friday, Cider Monday, and Shop Indie Local 2023
by Jen Risley
For the past decade, our community has pulled together to support locally owned businesses during the holiday season. This year, let's inspire more of us to join the movement to Shop Indie Local this holiday season and BEYOND. Please, join us!
Building a More Walkable Keene
by Jen Risley
Increasing tourism, economic activity, public health, safety, and sustainability by building a more walkable community.
Knight Affordable Housing Solutions – Create an Affordable Housing Development of 400-600 sq ft Houses in Cheshire County
Our project is build a community of smaller, more affordable houses in Cheshire County to help with the housing crisis and provide more options for people that can't afford or don't want the larger mortgage that comes with the larger houses that are currently on the market. Our goal is to build 1 t
Round It Up for Food Connects Farm to School Initiative
by Jen Risley
Food Connects nourishes Farm to School programs in the Monadnock Region. Be part of the movement to create Healthy Families, Thriving Farms, and Connected Communities today!
The Daily Good Global Foods Pantries
What makes daily life better for college students? Culturally-responsive foods from their home countries! (Check the local rewards for contributions of $25 or $50.)
Build the Movement for More Local, Equitable, and Sustainable Economies
by Jen Risley
AMIBA is the leading national organization building the Local Economy Movement. Double the impact of every dollar you donate to build a strong local economy movement that is diverse, equitable, and sustainable.
Choose Indie Local – Grow the Movement
by Jen Risley
For the past decade, our Choose Indie Local partners have pulled together to support locally owned businesses. We invite you to fuel our movement!
Plaid Friday, Cider Monday, and Shop Indie Local 2022
by Jen Risley
For the past decade, our community has pulled together to support locally owned businesses. This year, let's pull together even more. Please, join us!
A Village Roots Book – Patterns of Resilience: Northeast Permaculture in Action
Emerging Patterns of Resilience: Northeast Permaculture in Action A Village Roots Book Can we create a future that is abundant and resilient in the Northeast? In Emerging Patterns of Resilience, Marty Castriotta will delineate patterns that can be used as trail maps to navigate an uncertai
2022 Locals’ Local Fund benefiting the Monadnock Mobile Food Pantry
The Locals' Local Fund will support local farmers who will be selling fresh, local food at a negotiated price to Monadnock Mobile Food pantry. The Fund will be managed by the Monadnock Farm and Community Coalition in collaboration with The Community Kitchen, the operational partner for the mobile fo
Dump to Dirt – Elm City Compost
Here at Elm City Compost, we are working on a handful of projects to advance waste diversion and sustainability efforts in the region. We are planning on expanding our Remote Drop-Off Services to surrounding towns, we have the chance to start a Pilot Compost Collection for local schools, and we are
The Keene Sentinel – News for the Future
by James Rinker
We cannot think of a recent time during which staying informed is more crucial. Understanding national, state and, most importantly, local events and their impact on you, as a reader and citizen, is vital. Help us expand this coverage, to provide you more trusted local news and to broaden your under
GKPC and The Thing in the Spring
Coming together to celebrate -- whether with food, music, holiday festivals or the arts -- has a long tradition of uniting our communities throughout the Monadnock Region. More than just a night out, local events become a part of our family traditions (think holiday lightings and annual parades), in
Start Small. Think Big. Impact Monadnock
Our vision is that every child in the Monadnock Region and their families are thriving! Your gift can help make that vision a reality. Start Small. Think Big. is the early childhood development initiative of Impact Monadnock…because the future of the entire Monadnock Region depends on the success o
Building Racial Equity in the Monadnock Region
by Jen Risley
Building a Racial Equity Growth Plan for our region, one that will eliminate racial inequities in our area and improve the outcomes of all racial groups.
Community Supported Solar for Farms
Farmers are the heart of our region: providing fresh produce, caring for the land, and nourishing our community. With farmers being key to our local food system and conservation priorities, it is crucial that they too are supported. Here’s one great way — through the Monadnock Region’s Community Sup
Shop Indie Local – Grow the Movement
by Jen Risley
For the past decade, our Shop Indie Local partners have pulled together to support locally owned businesses. Now, we invite you to fuel our movement!
Let’s Rejuvenate the Sullivan Country Store
Looking to 2022, help us cross the finish line and re-open the Sullivan Country Store.
Back to School with Food Connects
by Jen Risley
Food Connects wants to help nourish Farm to School programs in the Monadnock Region. Be part of the movement to create Healthy Families, Thriving Farms, and Connected Communities today!
The Farm Cafe Outdoor Patio Campaign
by Jen Risley
Our campaign will help us obtain new outdoor tables, chairs, and umbrellas in order to create a positive, safe outdoor dining patio. Support our campaign today!
State-of-the-Art Technologies to Tell Our Local History Stories
by Jen Risley
For 94 years, the Historical Society of Cheshire County has been connecting people with local history. And recently, we have learned that our history stories can reach a larger audience when we share our programs over the internet. State-of-the-art technologies will allow the Historical Society of C
The Keene Sentinel – News for the Future
We cannot think of a recent time during which staying informed is more crucial. Understanding national, state and, most importantly, local events and their impact on you, as a reader and citizen, is vital. Help us expand this coverage, to provide you more trusted local news and to broaden your under
Start Small, Think Big – Impact Monadnock
by Jen Risley
Children in the Monadnock region are the most important investment we can make—focusing on the welfare of children from birth to age eight creates a strong foundation for their future health and happiness. Help us raise $10,000 to support Impact Monadnock Every donation will be matched dollar for do
The Monadnock Restaurant Project
by Jen Risley
Let's give our local restaurant economy a “shot in the arm” this winter and spring. Support our homegrown stimulus project!
Plaid Friday, Cider Monday, & More
by Jen Risley
For the past decade, our community has pulled together to support locally owned businesses. This holiday season, we need to pull together even more. Please, join us!
Fuel More Farms & Local Food
by Jen Risley
Support projects addressing Farms & Local Food in the Monadnock Region. Let's provide campaign teams with the extra resources they need to make their vision happen.
Fuel More Living Wage Jobs & Equity
by Jen Risley
Support projects addressing Living Wage Jobs & Equity in our region. Let's provide campaign teams with the extra resources they need to make their vision happen.
Sculpture at Keene Airport
by Jen Risley
Help us transform a once negative space into a welcoming sculpture park.
Teaching Successful Home Sharing
by Jen Risley
Support the development of our online course where people will learn how to create healthy, happy shared homes!
Help Village Roots Secure a Walk-In Cooler
by Jen Risley
Your support helps Village Roots Permaculture Farm purchase and install a Walk-In Cooler -- and provide more fresh, healthy and safe food to our community.
Prime Roast Beans By Bike
by Jen Risley
As demand for BySpoke - Beans By Bike continues to grow, we find ourselves in need of a back-up battery for Iris. With your support, we can keep Iris rolling and our community caffeinated!
Keep CC&D’s Kitchen Market Q’ing
by Jen Risley
Support CC&D's Kitchen Market by helping us purchase essential safety equipment and supplies for the catering arm of our business.
Orchard Hill Breadworks Pizza to Support Local Dairies
by Jen Risley
Small dairy farms and artisan cheesemakers have been hit pretty hard by the pandemic, and we'd love to be able to support their work by featuring their products on our pizzas this year, without transferring this increased cost onto our customers, or cutting into what we're able to donate.
Archway Farm Store Upgrade
by Jen Risley
Help us upgrade the electric service of our farm store to better handle our new display freezers and refrigerator and give us more capacity to make additional upgrades going forward.
Supporting Co-op Curbside Pick-up
by Jen Risley
We turn to our community to help us cover a portion of the cost of a refrigerated trailer. Your support will help us keep curbside pick-up available now and into the future.
Help Local Journalism Thrive
In these difficult times, local and trusted journalism is more important than ever. You can help The Keene Sentinel continue to provide vital news coverage for this region.
Fuel More Affordable Housing
by Jen Risley
Support projects addressing Affordable Housing in the Monadnock Region. Let's provide them with the extra resources they need to make their vision happen.
Helping Kids Access Success
by Jen Risley
Investing in children is investing in the future of our community. Help kids access opportunities in our community that cultivate a successful adulthood.
Growing Local Food Markets in the Monadnock Region
by Jen Risley
Join us and make it easier to buy and sell local food in our community! Together we can build healthier families, thriving farms, and connected communities.
Monadnock United Way
by Jen Risley
Our region has proven time and again that we are Better Together. United Together, we can: • Ensure people have good food and safe homes to live in • Prepare children and families for success • Create financially stable homes With your support, we will eliminate fear and uncertainty. We will
Yoga for Recovery
by Jen Risley
A community-funded effort geared toward supporting the individuals of our community who are in recovery by providing scholarships to attend regular yoga classes at Mudita.
2019 Plaid Friday, Cider Monday and More
by Jen Risley
YOU can help us inspire more of our friends and neighbors to support locally owned businesses by shifting more of our holiday spending to independent businesses. Show off your dedication to the local economy movement and support our campaign today!
Fast Charge Monadnock
by Jen Risley
Fast Charge Monadnock aims to lower greenhouse gases and increase regional sustainable living by investing in electric vehicle infrastructure. Stepping into the clean emissions future today requires investment in electric vehicle charging - specifically fast EV charging stations. Join us in bringing
A Stone Mill for Mill Hollow
by Jen Risley
In communities all across America, bakeries are introducing their customers to the increased nutritional value and flavor of baked goods made with freshly milled flour. Through the acquisition of a hand-built stone mill from New American Stone Mills in Elmore, Vermont, we hope to be able to provide
Solar Powered Popsicles
by Jen Risley
Bringing Cheshire Garden popsicles to more people with a solar powered cooler.
Join Us: Make The Local Crowd Monadnock Stronger
by Jen Risley
Leveraging the power of crowdfunding to make wonderful ideas happen -- projects that support a local, green and fair economy in the Monadnock region.
MAxT Coworking and Education Center
by Jen Risley
MAxT Makerspace seeks to create a new space for local consultants, entrepreneurs and creative people to work, meet and collaborate.
First Friday Art Hop
by Jen Risley
Creating a blank canvas of opportunity for the arts in Downtown Keene
NH Bee Initiative
by Jen Risley
The NH Bee Initiative Brings The Good of the Hive to Paint a Mural
Growing NH’s Energy Independence – Helping Farmers Harvest the Sun
by Jen Risley
Bring locally sourced power to local farmers through a Community Supported Solar framework.
Village Roots Barn Raising
by Jen Risley
Help us raise a barn! A well-designed building is like a generator on a farm: producing the materials and ideas that feed the entire system.
Moving Outdoors
by Jen Risley
The Montessori Schoolhouse Outdoor Classroom Project
Monadnock Buy Local Members Fuel The Movement
by Jen Risley
We turn to you -- our renewing Monadnock Buy Local members -- to help us transition into a stronger and more financially viable network.
Bicycle Mayor of Keene…more people on more bikes more often
by Jen Risley
The Bicycle Mayor of Keene accelerates the progress of cycling in the Monadnock region by focusing on three areas: education, creation and connection -- with an aim to get more people on more bikes more often.
Placemaker Local Rewards Program
by Jen Risley
Making Connections Visible and Rewards Sweeter
Hinsdale Beautification Committee Safe Streets Project
by Jen Risley
We're looking to make our Main Street safer and more welcoming for all.
Barn Raising at Stonewall Farm
by Jen Risley
This community-oriented project is to design and build a barn for the animals used in our educational and visitor services programs.
Farm To Table On Wheels
by Jen Risley
From Archway Farm Bringing the best locally grown food to a cart near you.
What is TLC Monadnock?
TLC Monadnock leverages the power of crowdfunding to make wonderful ideas happen!
The Local Crowd (TLC) Monadnock is a community-based crowdfunding platform that empowers individuals to support the businesses, organizations, and initiatives that grow wealthier and healthier communities in our region.
Crowdfunding is the practice of sourcing small contributions from a large number of people to provide funding for a particular project or campaign. We leverage the power of crowdfunding to cultivate a stronger ecosystem of investors, service providers and local economy champions investing in a local, green and fair economy in the Monadnock Region.