More than a mission,
it's our practice....

Sweet Water Foundation is a community-rooted, nonprofit organization that practices Regenerative Neighborhood Development (RND). 

RND is a creative and regenerative social justice method that cultivates safe, healthy,  and inspiring spaces and places. RND is an interdisciplinary and intergenerational practice that offers a unique blend of design, carpentry,  agroecology, and lifelong education to create the physical spaces, programs, and resources necessary to heal and nurture people across cultures, geographies, and generations. 

Since 2014, SWF’s flagship site, The Commonwealth, has re-generated and re-storied six blocks in the South Side of Chicago into The Commonwealth. Today, The Commonwealth is a bio-dynamic campus for urban ecology, human development, Civic Arts, and neighborhood development. It is the heart of SWF’s Communiversity, an emergent institution through which humans from all walks of life come together to learn and engage in SWF’s practice of Regenerative Neighborhood Development (RND).