In this issue:

• Neighbors share love notes
• Clients in the news
• 500CP Introductory Webinar: March 8
• 500CP Follow-Up Webinar: April 24

Neighbors share love notes

Neighbors at Nevada City Cohousing are spreading the love this Valentine's Day with notes of appreciation for neighbors. Cohousing communities always find a way to celebrate the holidays together, large or small.

Sometimes all it takes is a sweet email on the community listserv to make people feel like they're part of something bigger.

Whether you live in community or not, we hope you implement this sweet idea into your own V-Day celebrations. It's important to appreciate the people around you.

Subject: [nccoho-all] Love Notes! In the Dining Room

Date: Monday, January 30, 2023 at 12:19:48 PM PST

From: Mags

To: Nevada City Cohousing

<3 Come check out the Love notes Station in the Dining Room this afternoon and for the next 2 weeks.

Write a small note of appreciation, gratitude, or admiration for our neighbors, anonymously or not.<3

Write your name on a bag if you want to participate in receiving love, and try to make a commitment to write at least 5 notes for other neighbors. Want to appreciate someone not listed? Feel free to make a bag for them too.

-Feel free to bring more bags, stickers, valentines, colored paper, confetti, markers, etc to add to the fun. Also let me know if we need more supplies.

On Valentine's day evening take your bag of love notes home to bask in the admiration of your neighbors that care for you.<33

Mags

she/her/they

Clients in the news

The Times of Israel:

The First Jewish Urban Cohousing Community Opens to Families

The Mercury News:

Children feel safe and supported in cohousing-oriented neighborhoods

Fox 26 Houston:

Cohousing development offers community, cost savings, and sustainability

Join us for a 500 Communities

Program Introductory Webinar

Zoom: March 8 at 11:00am PST

Have you thought about getting more involved with cohousing professionally? We don't just mean forming a group and living in community, we mean within your line of work. Maybe you're a developer interested in sustainable community design. Maybe you're thinking about bringing cohousing into your real estate repertoire. Maybe you're pondering what it would be like to be a project manager for developing communities, or how you can help facilitate more communities in your area. Perhaps you are passionate about community and want to grow the market.

The 500 Communities Program is a 12-month course designed to train collaborators to meet the expanding need for professional support in creating new communities. The Program applies to many different job fields and was designed with all means on collaborative development in mind. Its intention is not to teach one model of cohousing, but build on lessons learned as we explore models of collaborative development that were not taught in university of trade school.

CoHousing Solutions is currently recruiting for the next 500 Communities Program Class of 2023! Consider joining Katie McCamant (coauthor of THE cohousing book) for our 500 Communities Program Introduction Webinar on March 8. You will learn more about cohousing, Katie's background, and the 500 Communities Program basics.

Applications for the 2023-2024 cycle close on June 15, 2023.

Join us for a 500 Communities

Program Follow-Up Webinar

Zoom: April 24 at 9:00am PST

Once you have attended an Introduction Webinar we invite you to join us for a Follow-up Webinar, where Katie hosts a more candid conversation about the 500 Communities Program, answers questions, and gets to know prospective applicants. This year, people who have gone through the Program will attend to answer questions and offer insight. Our Program Affiliates truly enrich our community of cohousing professionals. We can't wait for you to meet them!

Applications for the 2023-2024 cycle close on June 15, 2023.

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We provide development consulting services to help you create your sustainable neighborhood. Our team pioneered the development of cohousing in North America, and we have helped create dozens of successful communities.

Our newest venture involves training passionate cohousing entrepreneurs through the year-long 500 Communities Program. We are now accepting applications for the 2024-2025 cycle!