Community Works Summit 2025

Community Works (CWorks) National Director, Meredith Dean, welcomed close to two hundred  people joining the first national Community Works Summit since the program began in 2023. According to Dean, the mission of Community Works is to “work side by side with neighbors to address concrete local needs. Local CWorks Chapters collaborate with civic, faith-based, schools  and other groups to strengthen our rural and working-class communities. While politicians in Washington are fighting partisan battles, we are rebuilding trust and finding common ground.”  

Twelve more local leaders from CWorks Chapters in Georgia, Virginia and Minnesota presented through videos and live testimonials. Others, including chapter volunteers in Alabama and  Maryland, appeared in photos lifting up the more than 600 volunteers, 400+ projects, and close to 500 community collaborations organized by Community Works Chapters over the past two  years. 

Democratic National Committee leader, Wendy Davis, urged Democrats and others across the country to listen to, talk with, and work alongside neighbors to make our rural communities a place where our kids have a future and want to come home to.  

RUBI ED, Anthony Flaccavento, summed it up with “At the foundation, it’s about rebuilding trust, because that’s what we’ve lost. We have millions of people who mistrust anyone who is  outside of their immediate sphere. I do not know of anything else going on in this country that is more effective at 1) getting things done and 2) rebuilding trust than Community Works.”