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Putting our theories of membership into practice
An honest reflection on year one of Connective Tissue membership. Plus, an invitation to become a member and help power our writing.
 • Connective Tissue and Sam Pressler
What Money Can't Buy
The commodification of connection risks accelerating the inequality in our social lives while debasing the sacred good of human relationships. It's on…
 • Connective Tissue and Sam Pressler
A neighborhood microgrant in every town
Microgrants for neighbor gatherings are spreading. Here’s how to launch one where you live — and the theory underpinning our new experiment.
 • Connective Tissue, Josh Nesbit, Sam Pressler, and Elise Granata
Nobody to Call
We interviewed 30 men without degrees. Most are almost completely disconnected, but they don’t want to be — they’re yearning to connect and contribute…
 • Connective Tissue, Sam Pressler, and Soren Duggan
An Invitation to a New Civic Future
We’re committed to a new civic future where people feel agency over their lives, where neighbors are connected through relationships of trust, and where…
 • Connective Tissue
"I'm just here, just passing by—and that doesn't sit well with me"
The Turnpike Troubadours, Zach Bryan, and a sea of isolated young men, openly expressing their feelings of hurt, yearning for connection, but not…
 • Connective Tissue and Sam Pressler
Hello in there, hello
On failing to offer neighborly accompaniment
 • Connective Tissue and Sam Pressler
Renewing a spirit of membership, participation, and experimentation within the YMCA
11 ideas and experiments for the Y’s new 10-year strategy to “create connected communities”
 • Connective Tissue and Sam Pressler
Connection Grift
Expert gurus, tech companies, political saviors, and national nonprofits threaten to capture our generational moment of civic renewal. But we can push…
 • Connective Tissue and Sam Pressler
A simple act to strengthen civic life
What we learned from our neighborhood gathering experiment in Charlottesville – and how you can host a gathering of your own through our new $50…
 • Connective Tissue and Sam Pressler
Not all men (are in crisis)
But men without degrees really are
 • Connective Tissue and Sam Pressler
Introducing the Connective Tissue Membership Network
We’re launching Connective Tissue membership, a self-sustaining membership network to realize our generational project of civic renewal.
 • Connective Tissue and Sam Pressler
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