Social Liberty Foundation
We're a California nonprofit public benefit corporation supporting research, publication, and public education on alternative models of governance and community — and, in turn, other nonprofits doing similar work.
We study and publish on ideas about social structures and governance — libertarian, georgist, and beyond — so readers can reason about them, rather than pushing a party line.
Alternative models of governance, property, and community are worth taking seriously on their own terms, examined with the same rigor as the status quo.
We're organized as a California nonprofit public benefit corporation. No part of the foundation exists for private gain — research, writing, and grants all serve the public.
Beyond our own publishing, we aim to support other nonprofits doing aligned educational and civic work, rather than treating them as competitors.
Thomas Paine opened Common Sense with that distinction in January of 1776, months before any congress had declared anything, and the distinction is the whole argument this piece is built on. Society — the actual fabric of people cooperating, trading, […]
[What Sacramento Is Deciding](/posts/what-sacramento-is-deciding), [Austin's Long Recess](/posts/austin-s-long-recess), [Beacon Hill's Interval Training](/posts/beacon-hill-s-interval-training), and [The View from Tallahassee](/posts/the-view-from-tallahassee) each read one state capital's session for what it actually decides about social liberty, bill by bill. [The South Rises](/posts/the-south-rises) broke that pattern once […]
[The Park](/posts/the-park) walked three postures a public good can take — fenced and gated, worn and organic, natural and unmanaged — and asked, along the way, whether "public good" names anything real at all. Its answer set two conditions a […]
The foundation is newly formed. A few programs are already underway; others are still in development — we'll share updates here as they launch.
Ongoing upkeep of the Social Liberty website and feeds, plus allied information sites working in this space (transparentcities.org, on40.org, greenspacesbayarea.org, greenspacesmv.org, and others).
A planned stipend program funding independent researchers to complete and publish research on alternative social and community structures.
A planned part-time or full-time staff role to support day-to-day foundation operations as the organization grows.
Individual events will be listed here with links once they're scheduled.
A monthly public talk and book group discussion on topics in social structures, governance models, and civic life — free to attend, recorded, and posted publicly.
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