Local
Local chapters and community circles
The primary unit is local: neighbors, practitioners, and volunteers solving problems together where they actually live.
Communities
Build strong local roots and still cooperate across wider boundaries.
Prosper Movement is not meant to be a centralized audience. It is meant to be a living member structure that begins locally, learns regionally and nationally, and can connect into wider foundation-linked work when the scope genuinely calls for it.
Structure
Four levels, one movement logic.
Regional
Regional coordination and mutual support
Regional layers can connect nearby chapters, share practical know-how, and help good local models spread without flattening local autonomy.
National
National organization and shared campaigns
National coordination can hold common policy, shared learning, member services, and larger campaign or movement infrastructure.
Global
Foundation-linked international initiatives when appropriate
Most global work will likely live under Prosper Foundation stewardship, but member-initiated global efforts can also be carried there when they genuinely belong.
What local chapters can actually do
Move from broad agreement to concrete work.
Local resilience
Strengthen the social and practical fabric close to home
Build stronger neighborhoods, circles of trust, and real community capacity instead of leaving resilience to distant institutions alone.
Economic self-reliance
Support people in building more durable livelihoods
Help people create more freedom, more skills, and more mutual support around work, enterprise, and practical contribution.
People and planet
Work on challenges that matter materially and morally
Take on issues where local action and coordinated collaboration can improve conditions for people, communities, and the wider living world.
Cross-boundary cooperation
Share what works beyond one place
The movement should help strong local ideas travel across regions and nations without losing their human scale or practical grounding.
Next move