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When community initiatives get trapped in process over purpose

Our neighborhood organization started because we all wanted more community connection, but now every meeting turns into the same five people arguing about logistics while everyone else checks out. We've created this bureaucratic monster that's sucking the life out of the thing we were trying to build together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The structures you created to sustain your shared vision are now actively working against it, and you're caught between dismantling what you've built or watching it hollow out from within.

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