I wrote last December of Strong Towns's long-term vision for change that, "If We Win, You Won't Hear About It." Look: we love it when our successes as a movement and an organization get shouted from the rooftops. But it's also rewarding in its own way when they don't—if, that is, the reason they don't is that the ideas have become mainstream enough that there's no need to credit us anymore.

We would love nothing more than to get to the point where, for people who work in urban planning, policy, or development, key Strong Towns ideas—like incrementalism, bottom-up investment, and prizing maintenance and resilience over growth and innovation—are simply part of the air they breathe. Familiar, mainstream, and widely understood.

Put more concisely, every successful activist should want to put themselves out of a job.

We're not going to be out of a job anytime soon here at Strong Towns. In fact, if you could look at any of our small staff's inboxes on any given day, you would see that we are asked to do far, far more than we have the capacity to oblige. Between speaking at conferences, creating content to weigh in on important issues, and advising advocates on how to be effective change agents, we have to say no to 80% of the opportunities that come in the door.

So we could, in fact, use a lot more in-house capacity—and you can help us with that by becoming a member of the movement if you're not one already.