From their Friday potlucks to new skills workshops, Grin City found that one of their central roles was providing a place for people to gather. Pro tip: free garage sales or free food are some of the best ways to broaden your audience and bring people together to share an experience.

Grin City created a publication to celebrate harder-to-locate and less-well-known resources of their town. Then community members connected over a party that had them filling out an application for an obscure or obsolete community job that just might be their true calling. Read more.