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Explore the many ways intentional communities come together.

Join with others to start a commune, a home share, or a residential intentional community, or add a compatible member to a household that’s already part of an established community.

Once you have bylaws and a definite location, list your community in the ic.org directory too.

33 founders’ groups

Ecohouse & Healer Cooperative Carbondale CO

A small group in Carbondale, CO has been meeting for years as an advocacy group for local causes and for relationship building. Several members have…

📍 U.S. rocky mountain regionView group →

College Commune in San Luis Obispo CA

This place is pretty close to paradise. The Cal State University there is my first choice of schools because...connections. I want to study animal…

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Founding

Cohousing on Vancouver Island BC

These cohousing developments listed below are under construction. CoHo BC is in contact with groups of locals who are interested in joint purchase…

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Forming

Ecovillage Regenerative Farming Vancouver Island BC

In founding stage of a permaculture farm IC. We have BC charitable status, currently working toward finding land and forming a land trust for…

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Hedgerow Hill Farm UT

We are seeking two families to buy in and build their own house on the property. We likely in near future will be able to subdivide w/o co-owning. O…

📍 U.S. rocky mountain regionView group →
Forming

High Road Haven NM

Forming-phase, NM west-side Rockies. 17-acre farmstead, 4 under irrigation; perennial creek in band of forest; rich, productive black soil; house…

📍 U.S. southwest regionView group →
Founding

Founding-phase Cohousing in Vancouver British Columbia

These cohousing developments listed below are under construction. CoHo BC is in contact with groups of locals who are interested in joint purchase…

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Forming

Founding-phase Cohousing on Vancouver Island, British Columbia

These cohousing developments listed below are under planning or construction. CoHo BC is in contact with groups of locals who are interested in…

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Concept

Concept-phase Urban Cohousing in Duncan BC

Potential site: 247 and 257 Evans Street full private apartments and shared community spaces 3 blocks to farmer’s market 8 minute walk to Duncan…

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Healers/Green Wiccans Unite

My dream is to have a medi-spa healing sanctuary with a community garden & chosen family like situation where we share resources and help…

📍 U.S. rocky mountain regionView group →

Center for Creative Community

My vision is for a nucleus of a creative community forming with 2-4 like-minded kindred spirits somewhere in Northern Arizona…

📍 U.S. southwest regionView group →

Uneeda Farm

How to Serve and Thrive in the Anthropocene ? Growing Food is our Extinction Rebellion . This is our effort to accept uncertainty. Food is the new…

📍 U.S. southeast regionView group →

Echoes in the Valley

We are 3 friends wanting to be totally self sufficient on 160 acres. That takes many hands ✋️ and it is a task. However when u look at all the…

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EcoShire

Hello, I go by the handle EcoShire Jim. Looking to find good people to come out for a visit and see if our place is a good fit. 9 years ago, I…

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VeganPermacultureCommunityEcuador

Terra Frutis is a vegan intentional community in Ecuador, situated at the edge of the Amazon rainforest.

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Hamden Cooperative Forest Farm

Located in Hamden, Connecticut, near New Haven. We are a small community sharing a 3-bedroom house on 7 acres of land, focused on native plant…

📍 U.S. northeast regionView group →

Cohabitat Organic farm co-villaging

Nature & people, as nature intended Where the live and let live people, the help each other out people and the work together people are the…

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Blissful Greens Community

I am starting a community on a 19.5 acre property near Dothan, AL. The property has 2 houses, pond, barn, 7-acre field, 7-acre forest, chickens,…

📍 U.S. southeast regionView group →

Common Purse Christian Community

New Covenant House is an intentional, common purse, Christian community in the Catskills region of New York. We learn to live, work and worship in…

📍 U.S. northeast regionView group →

Coslor Cove off-grid self-reliance community

Coslor Cove is an off-grid, garden-farming community in Navajo County, Arizona, where families and individuals can live sustainably while enjoying…

📍 U.S. southwest regionView group →

Oklahoma Intergenerational Intentional Community Living

This group hopes to form a collective of individual share holders based in Oklahoma, possibly North Texas. The ultimate goal is to purchase land…

📍 U.S. southeast regionView group →

Polaris Artist Residence in Spain

Hi I’m an artist that wants to buy a big house with swimmingpool in Malaga, Spain and start a conscious community. I want us to create an artist…

📍 European UnionView group →

Solace Seed

A mixed household creating a network of pocket homesteads in the suburbs of Frederick. We aim to share skills, spoons, food and nerdy queer joy.…

📍 U.S. southeast regionView group →

Gaius Julius - IC Retreat

GAIUS JULIUS - A DIVINE OPPORTUNITY - A WORKING RETREAT * Co-Create the community that you can call your home * Help select the living environment…

📍 U.K. (anywhere)View group →

Liberty Farmland Trust

Forming community for liberty-loving permaculturists somewhere in southern Appalachia (VA, TN, NC, KY). Land to be owned by a trust with all members…

📍 U.S. southeast regionView group →

Intentional Commuity

Vision for a New Intentional Community: We are beginning the journey of creating a unique intentional community centered around sustainable living,…

📍 U.S. rocky mountain regionView group →

The Humanity Lab

The Humanity Lab is an intentional community in a container — a small group of 4–10 people sharing a home in Tulum for 1–3 months, doing their real…

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Mermaid Avenue

Our main aim is to provide support, learning, and creative opportunities for neurodivergent individuals and their families. We also aim to promote…

📍 U.S. northeast regionView group →

Deer Creek Ranch

A regenerative farm in southern Utah’s red rock country. Seeking 6 motivated individuals or couples passionate about organic and regenerative…

📍 U.S. rocky mountain regionView group →

SoMoPNW-Ecovillage

We have a message for everyone here at ICMatch.org looking for an opportunity to join an intentional community project just getting underway. “In a…

📍 U.S. Washington stateView group →

Foothills of Denver Intentional Community

We're searching for 40 acres near the wilderness of Golden, Colorado. Our planned residential community is designed for the neurodivergent,…

📍 U.S. rocky mountain regionView group →

What’s Next

After living in eastern ma cohousing for many years and then back out here since 2019, we're working on what's next. We are creating a small…

📍 U.S. northeast regionView group →

Eden EcoVillage Project

The Eden EcoVillage Community Project [email protected] What is needed now is a new vision of an EcoVillage that will be big enough to reach that…

📍 U.S. rocky mountain regionView group →
A new collaboration option · free for ICmatch members

Support for forming your group, from SpiritDAO

ICmatch is partnering with SpiritDAO so founders’ groups can try additional support for community formation and collaboration at no cost: governance options (how your group proposes, discusses and decides), communication and record-keeping (agreements, meeting notes and decisions kept in one place the whole group can see), and tools that can also assist with financial management. ICmatch’s founder has personally reviewed and vetted SpiritDAO and its founder. To explore it for your group, visit SpiritDAO or mention it when you create your founders’ group.

Building your team

Find your cofounders

You don’t have to create community alone, nor can you! Find your teammates. There are people who have the skills to complement yours and want deeply to put them into practice. Many see no current opportunity to do so, because society is not structured to support many of the values intentional communities are built around. Your people could be long-term trusted friends, or even family members. Let them know about your goals, so they can let you know when they come across resources. Volunteer or visit non-profits or activist groups to find like-minded people. You may find some thru social media or online tribes that have an interest in a particular influencer. You may find some interested people thru events you create. Sharing a passion for the same activities or sharing a belief system helps groups to bond and last, so it can help to simply let people know about your project as you interact with existing groups you are part of.

If these ideas sound daunting or outside the realm of possibility in your current situation, start small. Host a dinner for friends who have a worldview in some way similar to yours, or a worldview that intrigues you. Invite them to come prepared to discuss what might be a viable way to address a common concern. You could make the theme “think global, act local.”

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