Riding Across America To Raise $10M To Stabilize Communities With Low Friction, Direct To Recipient Grants For Housing, Health and Business Capital
Giving Cash Grants Is Proven To Be Life Changing
More Americans deserve a financial shot in the arm to live stable lives, rebuild after tragedy, and participate in the American Dream.
Christopher Baron - Founder
Why Millions Are In Financial Jeopardy?
Too many Americans are stressed, stuck, hopeless, and systemically frozen out of the American Dream and the astoudning creation of wealth that is on display around them.
Lagging Wages
Millions of Americans are one paycheck or simple misfortune away from losing their housing. When someone loses their home, whether it be a rental or one they own, they are immediately in jeopardy of serious knock on effects including: stress and mental health issues, substancee abuse, inadequate diet, loss of friends, relational and family stress, and most of all they become susceptible to crime, scams, and their risk of suicide rises significantly.
Gig Work
Gig work does not replacee traditional American jobs with mostly set hours, known compensation, and health insurance. Gig workers are dependent upon platforms, lack any bargaining power, and are susceptible to inefficicentt use of their time, changing income and unknown schedules.
Power Differential
Whatever issues Unions had - and there were real issues - Union workers had bargaining power, representation, and were able to buy a home, have insurance coverage, send their kids to college, and perhaps have a vacation home or rental income property. It wasn't perfect, but they built a broad middle class that had a buffer. They were not on the edge as so many Americans are today.
Cost of Living
Life's basics are now consuming the bulk of low and middle income workers income. People feel pressed - and are. Housing prices have sky rocketed to the point that a historic number of Americans know it's unlikely they will be able to afford a home - traditionallly most American's largest asset. With the bulk of their paychecks now going to life's basics, and with the safety nets and cusions of traditional employment mostly gone, there is a national unease and fear that they could easily fall throug the cracks or never be able to retire.
RAISING $10M TO ESTABLISH PILOT CITIES IN 2028
OUR FOUNDER IS CROSSING THE COUNTRY PROMOTING MORE IN COMMON VENTURES AND IT'S SISTER ORGANIZATION THE MORE IN COMMON DINNER CLUB
Millions of Americans are one paycheck or simple misfortune away from losing their housing. When someone loses their home, whether it be a rental or one they own, they are immediately in jeopardy of serious knock on effects including: stress and mental health issues, substancee abuse, inadequate diet, loss of friends, relational and family stress, and most of all they become susceptible to crime, scams, and their risk of suicide rises significantly.
Medical Care and Recovery
It is a tragic cliche that medical care is the largest cause of bankrupty in the United States. This metric does not include the untold number of American's who are financially damaged and hamstrung by medical debt. As a hospital billing administrator told our founder, "these people, some of whom do not have access to a computer or smart phone, are simply ruined forever. They do not have the energy or the technical and financial savvy to advocate for themselves."
Up to $10K For Low Risk Business Formation
Many Americans with the ability and drive to start a basic, low risk bsuiness that will provide them with an income to provide for themselves and their famlies, as well as pride of accomplishment and dignity lack the capital and credit to do so. Traditional banking is complex, expensive, and complicated for modest amounts of capital many Americans take for granted. Especially as we are entering a time when it is likely many Americans will experience a changing employment landscape due to artificial intelligence, modest amounts of capital for basic businesses can provide reipients with working capital to transition the next chapter of their lives in an orderly way.
Who We Are
More In Common Ventures is a lean and agile national non-profit whose mission is to stabilize communities with low-friction, direct to recipient grants for housing, recovery after tragedy such as health events, and with modest capital for small business formation.
Our Founder And The Origin Of The Projects Christopher Baron is a serial entrepreneur, author, host of Baron’s America, More In Common, and founder of Magical Year Retreats, a global school for navigating mid-life.
Mr. Baron received a dual major in Business and Journalism from Indiana University, Bloomington.
He dedicated a decade to circumnavigating the continental United States as research for a book project about post-9/11 America. That became Perimeter, An Odyssey, Book 1 in his Perimeter Trilogy.
Dduring that period he traveled 25,000 miles, embedded in cities across the country for months a time, and hosted thousands of conversations with the people he met. It provided him with a rare view of the forces that created the country - and world - in which we live.
These expanded into a podcast and were the foundation of The More In Common Dinner Club - Healing The Divide One Meal at a Time, and More In Common Ventures - A Value Fund For Humans.
He believes that precisely because the country is divided it is critical for beach heads of robust but polite and respectful discourse to be established, and that a rational and more equitable social fabric replace the massive divide in wealth that has accumulated during the last 30 years.
The More In Common Dinner Club Bridging the Divide One Meal at a Time
The More In Common Dinner Club is a national organization that during a time of unprecedented division provides a place for people to meet over a good meal and practice the simple art of human communication and connection. They provide a space to build authentic community, enjoy interesting and invigorating conversation, and a respite from the polarized issues on which most people have fixed beliefs.
They are my version of Jeffersonian dinners, and an expansion of the dinners I hosted during my travels in America, and then at my home near Aspen, Colorado during the pandemic. During those warm and intimate gatherings, I found people eager to understand one another and share their experiences and while observing where the conversations trended, I realized that most of us desire the same things: love, family, friendship, good work, security, safety, and community. But due to cultural and other changes, we now more often define those in very different ways.
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