Sail on!

Dear Churchill Wendell Wilkie will give you this--He is truly helping to keep politics out over here. I think this verse applies to you people as it does to us: "Sail on, Oh Ship of State! Sail on, Oh Union strong and great. Humanity with all its fears With all the hope of future years Is hanging breathless on thy fate." As ever yours Franklin D. Roosevelt

Be who? Do what next? How may I help?

Feast Day of St. Ignatius of Loyola

July 31, 2020

Dear Friends,

Let's all take a few minutes today to reflect on where we are now, where we have been, where are we going, and what are the next few steps, as far as we can see through the fog.

For me, what I see 5 years or so out is to Recover America with a healthy small group in every neighborhood, every neighborhood where we work, and every neighborhood where we live. 

Right now I'm recruiting students for the Franklin Circle Online that is forming right now, and I'm recruiting faculty who want to form a new Franklin Circle in their neighborhood.

Next step: IDEA Cafe this afternoon and Socrates Cafe at University of Denver, both online for right now (see post below.)

Why? My hope is to play a small part in restoring the vitalism and dynamism to the economy, to Recover America by strengthening grassroots, the voices of the informed and involved common person.

How may I help you? Right now, while it's on your mind, call me. I'd hate for us to miss this chance to work together.

John Wren

(303)861-1447

Wren: "the grassroots will disappear."

SBCC Franklin Circles.1881 Buchtel Blvd. #501, Denver, CO 80210  www.SmallBizChamber.org 

Contact: John Wren cell or text (720)495-4949

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 21, 2020

Ben Franklin’s Junto model for new hyper-local groups to strengthen neighborhoods.

“Without a healthy small group in every neighborhood, the grassroots will disappear.”

Denver, CO 02/20/2020— “Our mission is to save the grassroots, good neighborhoods and the voice of the informed common person, the man or woman who reads the newspaper, watches the news and specials and casts an informed vote.

 “To accomplish this we are working to make sure there is is a healthy small group in every neighborhood,” said John Wren, founder of the Colorado not-for-profit Colorado corporation, Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc. For help to start or join a group in your neighborhood see the SBCC site www.COCaucus.org.

“I believe our grassroots, the political voice of the common person, will completely die if nothing is done. It is our grassroots that has always made America great. My hope is that eventually, community newspapers across the USA will join us to encourage the formation of new nonpartisan neighborhood educational groups, which we are now calling Franklin Circles. 

Our mission is to help people turn familiar strangers into real neighbors. Without good neighbors, it is almost impossible to have a meaningful political conversation, “ said Wren today at the SBCC IDEA-OODA Cafe at the Commons on Champa, https://Meetup.com/Small-Biz-Chamber 

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Long-time community activist John Wren was a registered agent for Save the Caucus, a Colorado political committee, and he is the founder of the virtual educational organization the Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc., a Colorado not-for-profit Corporation. For more see  www.JohnWren.com  or call Wren at (303)861-1447 

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