Get Involved at LongHouse
LongHouse is a working civic body — a research library, a community-financing vehicle, and a regular gathering space. Here's how to contribute, participate, or access what we're building.
What LongHouse actually does: maintains a civic library (primary-source legal and governance research, published for free), runs a community-financing ring (transparent lending among members), hosts Wednesday meetings tied to the lunar cycle, and supports small family farming and land-stewardship operations with application-prep help for USDA, state, and private programs.
We aren't a church, a political org, a credential body, or a business. Operators are paid fairly. Decisions are made at meetings. Finances are published quarterly.
Public-facing officers of LongHouse. Run meetings cleanly, keep the books open, and represent the organization at public hearings, partner conversations, and on the public record.
Open-Book Treasurer
Custodian of the monthly P&L for any LongHouse-financed project. Publish where money goes so contributors can see the work.
Meeting Facilitator
Run the monthly civic meeting. Keep agendas moving, time-bounded, and accessible. Make sure quiet voices get heard.
Public Representative
Speak on behalf of LongHouse at city council, county supervisors, school board, or partner-org meetings. Stays accurate on the public record.
The volunteers who train the rest of us. Constitutional rights, de-escalation, safety, security best practices for a small public-facing civic organization.
Constitutional Rights Educator
Run short workshops on the Bill of Rights, due process basics, free speech limits, what to do when stopped or questioned. Plain-language, primary-source-based.
Safety + De-escalation Trainer
Teach basic first aid, conflict de-escalation, situational awareness for canvassers and event hosts. Build the curriculum others can run.
Security Best-Practices Trainer
Cover digital + physical security for meetings, contact lists, event check-in, and protecting attendee data. Light, practical, repeatable.
Volunteers who hold the long work. Steward the information layer, run the seven-year projects, and care for the stories that need slow, patient diligence.
Long-Mission Lead
Champion a seven-year civic project per the published methodology. Annual reviews, year-seven decision: renew, hand off, or end.
Sensitive-Topic Researcher
Work carefully on civil-rights cases, missing-persons files, historical injustice, and stories that require primary-source diligence before publication. Slow on purpose.
Civic Archivist / Story-Keeper
Capture community memory before it disappears (recordings, transcripts, signed releases). Preserve court-watch logs, oral histories, primary documents.
How civic work works here
Part-time, civilian, revolving. Nobody is expected to make a career of this. Hours are small and flexible. Roles rotate.
Volunteer. All chapter roles are voluntary at this stage. LongHouse does not have budget for paid positions right now. If and when the operating budget supports paid work, the policy will be transparent and any compensation will be published in the quarterly governance record.
Transparent. All decisions and any future paid hours are logged and published quarterly. Financial decisions are discussed openly at meetings.
Consensus-led. Proposals are brought at Pre-Full-Moon meetings, decisions made at Post-Full-Moon meetings. Simple majority if consensus fails. No single person has unilateral decision power over member-affecting choices.
Transparency commitments
Volunteer-only at this stage. No paid roles in any chapter.
Any future change to paid roles will be ratified at a public meeting and published in the quarterly governance record before it takes effect.
Community financing ring (when launched): all loans published with terms, amounts, and repayment status (borrowers consent at time of participation).
Not legal or financial advice. We help members find and prepare applications for real programs — we are not a certified lender, advisor, or fiscal sponsor.
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