A broken development pattern is bankrupting your city and endangering your neighborhood. Your membership enables the Strong Towns movement to fight this.
Learn About MembershipTo eliminate processing fees, checks are a great option. Checks should be made payable to Strong Towns and mailed to: Strong Towns 1001 Kingwood Street Studio 116 Brainerd, MN 56401
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Ideal for: Concerned citizens, Local Conversation leaders, local advocates
Includes:
Member exclusive emails.
Early access to new videos and courses.
10% discount on Strong Towns Academy courses.
20% off Local-Motive tickets.
Member rate for Strong Towns National Gathering.
Weekly “Ask Strong Towns Anything” virtual meetings with Chuck Marohn and other Strong Towns experts.
Invitations to local meetups with Strong Towns speakers.
Ideal for: Professionals, business owners, change-makers
Includes all the benefits of Strong Towns Members and…
Twice yearly Friends of Strong Towns Book Club with optional complimentary book copies mailed to you.
Exclusive invitations to at least four special events each year, including the Sponsor & Supporter Reception at our National Gathering, an “Ask Me Anything” conversation with Chuck Marohn, and more.
Special insider monthly emails.
Coaching calls with Edward Erfurt, Chief Technical Advisor.
Priority consideration for speaker requests in your community.
We need to turn that into hundreds of thousands, then a million, and then more. We can only do that with your support. So, will you join us and help grow this movement?
When you make a donation of any amount to Strong Towns, you become an official member of this movement.
There are two ways to manage your membership: with an annual contribution, or a monthly donation. Either way, your membership is valid for one year following your most recent contribution.
There is no minimum or maximum donation required to become a member, because we want to ensure everyone has the ability to join. We just ask that you join at whatever amount is financially comfortable for you.
Strong Towns members believe that we can save our cities from financial ruin (and put them on a path toward resilience) through rigorous accounting, traditional development, and bottom-up action. In some ways, your membership is like signing a petition to that effect. Monitoring membership is one of the best ways for us to measure the strength of this movement, observe that it is growing, and show that Strong Towns thinking is taking hold in meaningful ways. In other words, your membership proves these ideas have merit. Your membership inspires more people to take notice and join up.
We aren’t just challenging the status quo, we’re changing it.
Your membership contribution allows us to give local advocates the tools they need to start building their own strong towns. We use these resources to write articles, host educational events, create videos, and much more. But that isn’t the center of this movement. The Strong Towns organization exists to support advocates who are putting the mission into action: those who are stepping up to make the streets they live on safer, working at city hall to open doors for innovative housing development, opening new businesses in vacant downtown buildings, and more. This is the hard work that sparks a revival and builds strong towns in the real world—and your membership supports these heroes.
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Strong Towns is a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization. No good or service is exchanged for your voluntary donation, the entirety of which is tax-deductible in the United States. Our EIN is 27-1459378. More information on Strong Towns is available on Guidestar.
"I am incredibly impressed and inspired by this movement. I live in a small town in a widespread county with amazing things to offer and nothing coming together. We have the ability to create a utopia in a great farming community in the middle of Indiana and the opportunities are just being squandered. I would love to help my home to move forward on this all around sustainable path and be a thriving desirable place to live."
"Thank you for helping me learn more about good city design! I know $5 isn’t much, but you have truly changed my perspective on life and I now plan to enter a college major to help become a city planner. Thank you!"
"Coming from a community that is in desperate need of strengthening, I hope to use the tools I learn from Strong Towns to make my hometown a better place for all involved. I am so excited to see where Strong Towns is headed and I am proud to be a member and contribute to the cause."
Ask membership questions in our Action Lab to get answers from a team member, or view our Frequently Asked Questions.
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