From Connection to Coordination: Social Foundations of Collective Action

​Join Open Future Coalition for our emergent three-part virtual salon series - Common Infrastructure for Collective Action - designed to bring together diverse leaders and organizations shaping the landscape of collective action. These gatherings will showcase promising efforts already underway while creating space for cross-sector dialogue, shared sensemaking, and practical exploration of how common infrastructure can strengthen movements and enable greater cooperation across fields.

​Our first salon in the series, "From Connection to Coordination: Social Foundations of Collective Action"— is an invitation to connect, cross-pollinate, and co-create the social systems that sustain just and thriving futures.

​Speaker Include:

​Emmy Scott, Earth Guardians 

​Usha Devi Venkatachalam, Janani Regen Ecosystem 

​Loupa Pius, Karamoja Youth Effort to Save the Environment (KAYESE) 

​Xiye Bastida, Re-Earth Initiative

​Rebeca Lissa, AIME (Australian Indigenous Mentorship Experience) 

​Vasser Seydel, Oxygen Project 

​Wizipan Little Elk Garriott, NDN Collective

​This virtual gathering will explore the social infrastructures that connect movements, organizations, and communities into living networks of mutual support, resource exchange, and shared learning. Through showcase examples and facilitated dialogue, we’ll highlight cooperative models, tools, and learning ecosystems that help networks act in coordination while remaining rooted in local autonomy—building the cooperative foundations of large-scale systems change.

Together, we’ll look at what it takes to coordinate across sectors and regions: stewarding knowledge, sharing resources, aligning governance practices, and strengthening the relationships that enable diverse actors to move toward shared purpose and common impact.