Community Building

Start Where
You Are

Pana MIA is built by the people in it. There is a way in at every size, and the first one costs nothing but showing up.

The Problem

Wanting to help is not the hard part.

There is rarely a door
Most groups doing good work here have no obvious way to join them. You find out after it happened, from somebody who was already inside.
The ask is always money
Plenty of people have an hour, a van, a storefront or a trade and nowhere to offer it, because the only button on the page says donate.
You never learn if it mattered
Help that disappears into an organization is hard to repeat. People come back when they can see what their hour turned into.

Three of them, in order of how much they ask.

Show up to something
Come to a market, a workshop or a meetup. No form, no membership, no money — the events are open, and this is how most panas started.
Become a pana
Fill out the sign-up form and get a profile in the directory. It takes a few minutes, a person reads it, and we email you when you are live.
Run a pod
Community Connectors are neighborhood pods across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach running their own projects. Three tiers, and everybody starts at the first.

Neighbors who can find you
A profile your community can search by name, trade or neighborhood — and one more local name standing behind the club.
People nearby already doing it
A pod in your own county working on the street you live on, instead of a volunteer list two cities away.
Something that stays yours
Members and donations pay for the directory, the feed and the events. That is the reason none of it has to sell your attention.

The Point

Pana MIA was started so that anyone with an idea for making South Florida better had somewhere to bring it. Bring yours.

The rest of it