I suspect that there's potential for a reskin of the notion of the "fraternal organization" that could work for contemporary urban professionals.
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You can add lots of community activities onto the basic structure -- a daycare co-op, charitable work, a lending library (books or tools), various hobby/social activities, as you prefer.
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Unlike a professional organization, alumni organization, or college fraternity, this goes beyond providing a network; membership comes with formal obligations to contribute resources to other members. So it has to have a higher standard of trust than mere "networks".
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Of course, it's a lot like a church, except it's for secular people. A combination of ceremonies and aspirational ideals, like the Freemasons have, wouldn't hurt either. Maybe give it a "systems thinking"/"ecological"/"integrative" flavor.
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