Our Philosophy

Our Community Project is a community development organisation that believes in the power of the community to transform, strengthen and inspire each of us to contribute something to the culture in which we live. Culture impacts everything. Culture is simply the way we do things around here; and the way things are done should reflect the values, skills, and dreams of the community. At OCP we partner with organisations, groups, and individuals to develop and grow projects, enterprises, programs, or simply an idea.

We are careful but not risk-averse. We understand that culture requires a continual act of building by all of us all the time. We make the world we live in and the making of the world is a joint responsibility belonging to no less than everyone. What is required is that we bring to this task the best of ourselves. Our unique gifts whatever they may be, need a culture and community to grow and thrive. I hope when you read through these pages you will catch a glimpse of what can happen when people decide that something needs to be, created, expressed, developed, and built.. or when something simply needs to be done differently. In order to belong, we all need communities to which we can belong.

This is our work, we are participating in many communities, we are helping to change the culture to be more like a culture that helps us to live and to die well. Each of us doing the work that is the best of us.