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.
Civic work that advances understanding, rights-literacy, and the public record. Research, writing, citation verification, teaching the civic library material back to neighborhood audiences.
Research Contributor
Maintain the civic library: draft case briefs, update primers, verify citations, keep Part I–III current.
Civic Education Facilitator
Lead reading groups, host library-topic conversations at meetings, bridge civic library content to people who aren't reading 10,000-word primers.
Civic work that requires physical presence, organizing, and showing up. Site visits, gathering coordination, hands-on support for members who are building something.
Land & Farm Coordination
Support member-farm site visits, help with diligence, connect aspiring growers to parcels, coordinate visits with Grove House.
Events & Gatherings Host
Host or co-host LongHouse Wednesday meetings, civic discussions, and Fuega/ShareCraft cross-pollinations.
Civic work that protects community resources and extends financial or material aid. The financing ring, partner-org outreach, mutual-aid coordination.
Community Financing Participant
Join the LongHouse financing ring as a pool participant, lender, or borrower. Transparency-reported quarterly. No Howey-test securities — structured as state-formal peer lending with published terms.
Outreach & Partnerships
Connect LongHouse to partner organizations, neighborhood associations, civic groups; coordinate mutual-aid calls-to-action when members need material support.
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.
Paid. Compensated work is paid at the Arizona state-median hourly rate. No credentialing barrier. No volunteer-exploitation.
Transparent. Every paid hour is logged and published quarterly. Operator compensation (currently Brady at $25K/year, ratified) is public. 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.
Compensation transparency
Current operator: Brady Hugins, $25,000/year (ratified at the March 2026 meeting).
All circle-level paid work is logged to the public governance record and published quarterly.
Community financing ring: 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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