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Business Through a Different Lens
We see business through the lens of brand and design. In addition to our Founders, many of our members have world-class reputations and records of success in advertising, design, marketing, and building successful companies. As a member of our community, you’ll soon find that our global network is a one-of-a-kind resource that exists to ensure that you have access to the people and talent you need, fast.
COMMON is dedicated solely to ideas and projects that take care of the planet and all the creatures on it. Our criteria:
YOU ACT FOR THE COMMON GOOD BY:
- Creating and sharing social value, rather than extracting and hoarding it.
- Being friendly to the planet and the creatures on it.
- Doing good, not bad.
YOU DO SHIT THAT MATTERS BY:
- Dedicating yourself to doing what’s needed, not what’s frivolous.
- Disrupting the status quo.
- Being well-designed and wildly functional.
YOU’RE RUN BY FEARLESS, UNCOMPROMISING, AND KIND PEOPLE WHO:
- Understand that fear is the mortal enemy of creativity.
- Stick by their values under pressure.
- Believe that everyone needs a hug every now and then.
IS THIS YOU? LET’S WORK TOGETHER.
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COMMON HAS BEEN FEATURED IN
A FEW OF OUR NOTABLE MEMBERS
Adam Butler
Co-Founder, Strategic Chief
The Butler BrosHusband. Father. Co-founder @TheButlerBros, @WeWaveOrg, @FarmshareATX.
The Butler Bros refine and redefine brands for people pursuing growth.
Boo Fagan
Visual Designer, Innovation Strategist
TJOKEEFE / LOOKCASTPassion for the larger design community and has a greater goal to promote American design on a global scale.
Corban Baxter
Co-Founder, CTO
BarbershopDesigner. Co-Founder, CTO @barbershopio by day, instructor @bdwcu by night and mentor for @boomtownBoulder. These are my words.
Barbershop is a creative technology studio
Alex Diaz
Founder And President
COMMON FutureCOMMON Future is a content studio and communications strategy consultancy that digs deep for pathways that make climate adaptation irresistible and indispensable for cities that must mobilize citizens and companies that must promote life-saving brands.
Elijah Szasz
Partner
Spark6Eli lives in Santa Monica with his wife and two children. His exceptionally weird background includes nutrition, fitness, investment banking, robotics and user experience design. Now he is a serial entrepreneur whose mission is to leverage technology for the reduction of human suffering.
Julia Dopp
Lead Insurgent, Writer, Researcher, Social Media Strategist
COMMONBooks, cheese, glitter, ponies, and a fine mug of wine...all the things that fit nicely into your backpack, basically.
Jeffery Garland
Director of Photography
Jeffery Garland PhotographyDirector of Photography, Jeffery Garland Photography.
Kae Erickson
COO, Co-Founder
NCompass InternationalOver 20 years experience in developing award-winning promotion and marketing campaigns for Fortune 500 companies.
Keisha Banks
Architectural Consultant
Inscape PublicoAn incurable wanderlust with a penchant for motorcycles and fast cars (driving not riding b*tch)! OH and a sick ❤ of DESIGN.
John Weiss
CDO / Co-Founder
HumanDesignMy work is guided by purpose, passion, simplicity, beauty, innovation and surprise. Live Deliberately.
Kristian Bye
Founder
Bright ProductsFounder and Business Developer in Bright Products. Turning the world on to smart, simple and sustainable energy solutions.
Michelle Bove
Founder
designCASEA lover of travel, yoga and design, this licensed architect has a passion for community and understands the impact of collaboration.
Marty Butler
CO-Founder, Creative Chief
The Butler BrosFamily is the center of all things / father of 2 / Co-founder & Dir of Creativity @thebutlerbros / Board Pres @AHBschool / native Austinite
Dr. Matthew King
President
The COMMON FoundationServing people, planet, and peace.
COMMON Foundation combines the power of an incubator with philanthropy and social entrepreneurship to support, promote, and develop non-profit ideas and organizations in the US and abroad for the benefit of people, planet, and peace.
We serve the members of the COMMON community, as well as the non-profit and philanthropic interests of external clients including individuals, families, companies, philanthropists, and social and environmental entrepreneurs.
We offer fiscal sponsorship for non-profit projects, donor-advised funds, conduct philanthropic advising, set up scholarship programs, conduct legacy research and development, develop non-profit strategies, and we offer a full suite of consultative services for people, planet, and peace.
Mitchell Toomey
Director of the UN Millennium Campaign
UNDP New YorkClearing space in the international conversation for social innovators, findings ways for larger and larger crowds to organize into effective, agile governance processes. I lead a team at the United Nations that helps governments, individuals and organizations find new solutions to long-standing development challenges by embracing the power of partnership.
Michael Etter
Creative Director, Co Founder
The Story Manufacturing Co.Director, grant-writer, instructor and evangelist for a youth arts education organization that introduces students to communication design and job possibilities in the creative fields.
Tracie Dean Ponder
Founder AND Executive Director
B~STEM ProjectDefinitely born in the wrong century, most admire those who sacrifice for a greater cause, believes in the possibility of the impossible, fascinated with people, youngest of 11 children, love Korean Dramas and in another life would like to be a Monk living in Meteora monastery -- Greece.
Larry Olson
Creative Director, Screenwriter, Filmmaker
Larry OlsonFounder, Studio Designer, Art Bio: I enjoy sneezing and opening jars for old people.
Ryan Fiorentino
Director of Design
Fathom/Carnival/Why: We need renewal (is exciting). How: Create moments that spark change and inspire new perceptions.
Toby Krout
Managing Director
Boomtown AcceleratorFormer startup founder, operator and now accelerator. Optimist. Seeks to have mind blown by renegade innovators.
Mark Aink
Founder
COMMON, NATIVE CirclesFather, son, brother, husband, lover, singer, dreamer, doer, but most of all Mark.
Rich Adams
CEO
Pure3d, Inc.Product Innovation, Sustainability, Design, Manufacturing And Supply Chain
Matt Pretorius
Co Founder
Toilets For AllHealth, dignity and well-being for all through sustainable dry toilets...Collect. Trade. Recycle.
Kyle Westway
Founder, Managing Partner
Westwayauthor @prof_purpose | attorney @westawayco | lecturer on law @harvard_law | editor @weekendbriefing.
We work with social entrepreneurs—people creating smart solutions to social and environmental problems. Our clients include non-profits and for-profits as well as benefit corporations and B Corps.
Michelle O'Grady
Founder, CEO
Team FridayWe're a creative agency focused on building purpose, furthering causes & creating impact through collaboration & innovation.
Kevin D. Wilhelm
CEO and Founder
Incline SolutionsIncline Solutions is a comprehensive corporate development firm based in Boulder, Colorado.
Kerrie Finch
Founder & CEO
FinchFactorFounder of @FinchFactor Rep for Cannes Lions @OrangeLionsNL member of @CreativeSocial keeper of secrets @ADCN board member Derren Brown fan.
Aquiles La Grave
Founder + Dad
BrandzookaTrying to make something entirely wrong, right again. Without the help of either religion or the police.
Brandzooka allows you to put your videos in front of your exact target audience on the biggest sites on the web.
Wesley Ter Harr
Co-Founder and COO
MediaMonksThe biggest creative digital production company on the planet. Fighting mediocrity and deadlines since 2001. Available for high-end production and high fives.
Jennifer Crews
Founder
FlockEntrepreneur. Student of Life. Efficiency Geek. Lover of Communes. Currently laser-focused on reinventing the family as its own sharing economy.
Richard Averitt
CEO
Digital ReLabSoftware company pioneering Open MDS technology— open Media, open Data, open Storage.
Seamus Matthews
CEO & Founder
PennyOwlCEO & Founder of PennyOwl, a savings platform for families with young children. #AllowanceApp #SavingMoney #FinTech Family, friends & cycling - fortunate!
Kazia Jankowski
Culinary & Brand Innovator
Kazia Jankowski ConsultingLoves tequila, wrote a guide book of Peru, soul of a baker, always planning the next trip.
Kerry David
Founder
Over & Above AfricaRaising funds from a global community to conserve and protect Africa’s most vulnerable animals from extinction.
Contact Kerry at kerry@overandaboveafrica.com.
Kimberly Kortash
Storyteller
BrandekkoDocumentary junkie + museum nerd with an insatiably curious mind. Frequent traveler + master packer of a carryon. Lover of laughter + seeker of joy for myself and others.
Brandekko is a creative group, yes. But we’re also a business partner, one that knows great design is only one element of developing a successful company. We help you think big about your brand, giving you a cohesive strategy centered around your goals.
Michelle Deane
Founder
eleveightEntrepreneur, design techie & lover of fashion, film, photography, Daenerys & Tyrion #GoT & human resiliency.
Leslie Collin
Founder/Pricipal
GIVGiv is a platform that celebrates the things that inspire the life around us: Music, Art, Design, Fashion, Technology and Education.
Marsh Mokhtari
Co Founder
Golden State DistilleryTV host | Distiller & Traveler #Adventure #CraftSpirits #Whisky #Travel #Cook #Gin http://marshm.com
Golden State Distillery is a small batch distillery. Sustainably made Californian spirits from local ingredients, inspiring a Golden State of mind.
Carmel Hagen
Founder & CEO
Supernatural Inc.Supernatural, plant-based food color and sprinkle sets.
Supernatural is leading a parade for kitchen creativity, and reimagining the ingredients that help chefs shine with plant-based food colors and sprinkle sets. Supernatural is a new way to have fun with food, your hands and your heart. Because making stuff makes us happy. So if that’s your thing, too, then climb on board – this is going to be good.
Dr. Christine McDougall
Founder
2:23AMChief Steward at 2:23AM, Social Innovation for a more Beautiful World
Andrew Esau Weaver
Foudner
SHOPINVSHOPINV is a company focused on informing, educating and giving opportunities to those who are economically disadvantaged. With our innovative economic system, the poor can now see a 401K in their future just by doing what they normally do…SHOP! All of this is possible via a free mobile app!
Alex Mondau
CFO
Starvation AlleyLocal, Cold-Pressed, Unsweetened, Cranberry juice from Washington’s 1st Organic Cranberry Farm. Proud #PNW @BCorporation :: #GarnetGospel.
Bud Caddell
Founder
NOBLNOBL (pronounced no-bell) was founded in 2014. Today, we operate from LA, NYC, London, and Vancouver. We’ve supported clients on five continents and across two-dozen industries.
Our teams are a potent mix of organizational psychologists, change management practitioners, strategists, and service designers. In addition to our dedicated teams, we maintain a large community of industry and regional experts that augment our teams when we need additional skills.
Our mission is to be the essential partner for ambitious and compassionate leaders everywhere. Our vision is to improve work and culture for more than a million people before we’re ten years old.
Catherine Yrisarri
Owner And Director
See Why Projects + LUCA Media CollectiveSee Why Projects builds out creative and innovative projects around the world for major media companies, brands and scientific agencies.
Keren Flavell
Founder
ContainerlyWe create coliving and coworking villages in nature, built from affordable, resilient and low-impact shipping containers.
Jessica Murrey
Co Founder
Battle For HumanityBattle for Humanity (B4H), an interactive story game you play on your phone and apply in your community. Inspired by popular chat fiction and interactive story game apps, B4H will use two types of interconnected gameplay, Sagas and In Real Life (IRL) Missions to help youth practice Common Ground Heroism through scenarios on the app and then take action in real life. Players will tackle a variety of topics—including bullying, sexual violence, racism, inequality, polarization, interpersonal conflict, and more. Our goal is to empower young people to overcome conflict, embrace difference, and transform their communities -- all while having a blast.
Member Benefits
You get all this and more for $99 (USD) a month per team member. You can pause your subscription at any time
Quarterly Executive Advisory sessions
Training and Education
Discounts on services, products, and training
Invitation to our private Slack community
Facilitated introductions and networking
A community introductory announcement
Heightened awareness around your business
Option to use the CM and identify as part of COMMON
Participation in our annual COMMON Unsummit
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