Cleveland Commonweal Local Community Network

    REINVENTING THE CLEVELAND COMMONWEAL LOCAL COMMUNITY The  Cleveland CLC  met 29 times, about once a month, between September 13, 2017, until we ceased gathering after February 24, 2020, due to the pandemic. A total of 36 names appeared at one time or another on the membership list. Almost all of these were  Commonweal  subscribers. In 2018 there were about 165 Commonweal subscribers with an email address within thirty miles of the center of Cleveland.  Therefore, about one out of five of these expressed some interest in our  CLC.   Commonweal  provided me with the zip codes of subscribers who lived within thirty miles of downtown Cleveland. Analyzing that data I concluded: "In order to have  CLC  meetings within easy driving distance, there would have to be at least four or five  CLC  groups.   If half of the subscribers in an area come to our meetings, non-subscribers would have to be recruited if more than ...

  On Sunday, November 17 of last year, I received an e-mail message that I had not seen in more than three years "New Member for your Commonweal Local Community." When I googled the person's name, I found an association with John Carroll University. Instantly the idea formed. This November is the Centennial Issue of Commonweal.  Perhaps now is the time, and perhaps John Carroll may be the place, to begin reinventing Commonweal Local Communities. By November 24, I had posted on this website the first draft of: Models for Reinventing Commonweal Local Communities Analyzing the data from the 29 meetings that occurred between September 13, 2017 until we shut down after February 24, 2020, a total of 36 names appeared at one time or another on the membership list. Almost all of these were Commonweal subscribers. In 2018 there were about 165 Commonweal subscribers with an email address within thirty miles of the center of Cleveland.  Therefore, about one out of five subscribers w...