Commonwealth Coworking

The mission of Commonwealth Coworking is to bring wealth home to America’s rural communities by connecting them to opportunity and prosperity through community and technology. We do this by revitalizing spaces in small towns and using technology to connect rural entrepreneurs and workers with opportunity and each other, developing in-demand skills through classes and mentoring, accessing new markets via ecommerce, and by encouraging diaspora members to bring their businesses, resources, and knowledge home. Commonwealth's theory of change is that if we can foster renewed hope and enthusiasm around entrepreneurship, and provide mechanisms for diaspora members to invest in their home communities, and deliver essential supports to locals in launching new businesses, growing existing businesses, and accessing new markets, then sustainable, well paying jobs will be created locally, local tax revenues will increase, and economic decline in distressed communities can be reversed. Commonwealth is a non-profit social enterprise with and application for 501c3 recognition pending with the IRS.