Hi, I’m Savannah, and I run the Neighborhood Accelerator Program (NAP)—a 10-week online program that helps people build genuine community where they live. Since the NAP DAO proposal in November passed, we’ve continued to grow—currently in Week 9 of NAP3.
Here’s a progress check-in and a look at what’s next:
NAP Growth Thus Far
- Check out the NAP Map of all active neighborhoods stewarded by NAP participants and mentors. You’ll see incredible people like: @Dahveed @KathiInPorto @asciiman @Kaela @bethanymarz @prigoose @jon @grin @dianacornell @Shani @McBain @risha @Liface @shirah @camlindsay and many, many more.
- Participant & Neighborhood Growth:
- Cohort 0 → 7 participants → 6 sustaining neighborhoods (sustaining = neighborhoods that are still actively being stewarded)
- NAP1 → 12 → 9 sustaining neighborhoods
- NAP2 → 22 → 19 sustaining neighborhoods
- NAP3 → 41 → 38 sustaining neighborhoods
- In total: 82 participants have helped build 72 sustaining neighborhood communities in just one year.
- With ~40 people impacted per neighborhood, NAP has touched an estimated 2,880 neighbors to date.
NAP3 Marketing Highlights
Here’s the breakdown of what marketing efforts worked:
- Our Supernuclear article brought in 13 participants to NAP3—our top referral source. Many thanks to @phil and Gillian for helping us get in front of so many of the right people.
- Maia Franz launched the first in-person cohort in Taos, NM (9 participants via Facebook + local outreach).
- NAP alumni + friends of NAP spreading the word → 4 participants
- Encouraging each aligned applicant to ask people in their life to take NAP with them (one of the best ways to increase their success in doing this work) → 4 participants
- In-person NAP talks Shani and I gave in Western Australia in January → 4 participants
- NAP team posting on our personal Facebook profiles → 3 participants
- Cabin’s website and brand presence → 2 participants
- General “word of mouth” → 2 participants
NAP3 Application & Attrition Metrics
- We had 61 total applications to NAP3
- 43 were accepted → 9 participants have left the program (75% completion rate is better than most online courses, but I’m definitely not satisfied with it yet.)
- Biggest Lesson: Filtering for aligned participants is more important than hitting a perfect cohort size.
Revenue & Funding Experiments
In NAP2, we experimented with a $400 price point and offered anyone a partial or full scholarship who needed it.
We made $4,220 total in NAP2 program sales:
- 39% of participants paid full price. Those with established incomes seemed happy to pay this rate without question.
- 17% of participants received partial scholarships
- 21% of participants received a full scholarship
- 21% of participants were comped due to their prior affiliation with Cabin
In NAP3, we experimented with a tiered pricing structure based on self-reported income (see details here) and continued to offer scholarships to all who needed them.
We made $6,200 total in NAP3 program sales:
- 0 participants selected the $1000 Sponsor / Professional Development Rate
- ~5% of participants selected the Standard Rate of $650
- ~47% of participants selected the Accessible Rate of $250
- ~48% of participants selected the Full Scholarship Rate - Part of our marketing approach pushed that we had a limited number of scholarships to offer which drew attention, but also meant more scholarships were given.
Program sales paid for by participants wont create the revenue we need to make NAP financially sustainable. We will continue offering scholarships and lower tiered pricing to all who need it to participate and continue experimenting with pricing.
In order to determine a financially sustainable path forward, we plan to run the following revenue experiments:
- Sponsorships: Seats and cohorts funded by local governments, aligned businesses, and foundations
- Grants at the local, regional, and national level to fund the impact we’re making.
- Strategic Partnerships with aligned organizations like Rotary Club (we’re already in conversations with local + high-level leadership) to sponsor NAP’s rollout to Rotary groups internationally.
- NAP Neighborhoods as Marketing Pathway: Provide a paid opportunity for hyper-aligned projects to share their offers with our network and receive meaningful customer testing information.
- Academic Research Funding: Partner with universities to conduct studies on community-building, supported by external research grants.
What’s Next
In just one year, NAP has supported over 80 people in turning their neighborhoods into communities. But we’re just getting started. Next we’re focused on:
Supporting In-Person NAP Chapters
In NAP3, we piloted an in-person cohort in Taos (9 participants - half of them seen in the picture above
) and learned a lot. Now we’re seeking to scale by supporting in-person NAP4 cohorts in Baltimore, Boulder, and Perth. Imagine groups of 10+ people coming together in Baltimore, Boulder, and Perth and then creating communities across each city. That’s what we get to do this Summer! 
Community building work feels most alive when done in person and I’m excited for the experience of the participants to deepen as a result.
Partnering with Aligned Organizations
Kaela is launching a NAP cohort in partnership with Authentic Revolution, bringing their 15K+ audience into neighborhood-building work. She’ll also be going on a speaking tour of Rotary Clubs throughout the US this Summer in pursuit of programmatic partnership with them.
Our Vision for NAP: A Movement of Generative Community Building
We believe in a future where neighborhood community building becomes a cultural norm. Our long-term vision is to:
- Reach a critical mass of neighborhood community at the local + global level that it catalyzes a movement
- Build the infrastructure to support that movement as it grows—so it can mature into a tangible shift in culture around the world
This isn’t just a dream—it’s already beginning. Across the NAP network, we’re seeing a clear progression take shape:
Disconnected Neighborhoods → Communities → Generative Communities
In the last year, NAP has helped people all over turn their neighborhoods into communities. Now we’re starting to see the next stage emerge—neighborhoods where the relationships are strong enough that people start shaping their surroundings, solving local problems, and building things together.
Examples of these “generative communities” are already popping up:
Robert’s neighborhood in Bishop, CA (NAP3) cleared brush on the land surrounding their street to mitigate wildfire potential.
Neighbors in Kirsten’s (NAP3) Coronado Neighborhood in Phoenix, AZ organized artists to paint street murals throughout their alleyways and fences.
NAP Mentors, David & Hillary, collaborated with the city of Palo Alto to put traffic circles in their neighborhood – slowing cars and redesigning their streets for greater safety. Their neighborhood group plants native trees in the surrounding open space and along the streets of their neighborhood.
These stories aren’t edge cases—they’re signals of the creativity and agency that are possible when people belong to each other and show up for each other. As the neighborhoods in this network progress, our goal is to support them with the following:
- Harvest proven best practices and share these emerging methods of success throughout our global network
- Connect neighborhood stewards with beneficial mentors and co-conspirators to further their work
- Creating structures of accountability and celebration for stewards further down the journey
The Next Set of Games We’re Playing
- Continue improving the quality and program design of NAP to touch people as deeply as we can and get as many people “doing the thing” as we can. Serve the neighborhoods as they grow.
- Reach the right people who are ready to do this work and create a more beautiful future for their neighborhood
- Run this business and team well. reate an organization that people are proud of — work that we’re proud of.
We’re extremely excited for what’s possible in this network as relationships deepen and collective agency grows.
In closing, I want to give a big thank you to everyone here at Cabin who has supported us in building NAP over the past year. Every neighborhood, every newfound friendship, every child growing up with a greater sense of village—that’s something we made possible, together. 