Hunger is rising. Food is chemical. Communities are hollowed out.
Corporations grow richer while families grow weaker.
Hunger is rising. Food is chemical. Communities are hollowed out.
Corporations grow richer while families grow weaker.
ShareNetwork exists to restore the Church’s role in feeding people, strengthening families, and rebuilding local communities by providing the infrastructure that allows local communities and parishes to act on their own.
We do this by reviving the Church’s historic mission-based system of local food, work, and care — rooted in Catholic Social Doctrine and the principle of Subsidiarity.
Your support helps replace fragile, centralized systems with local participation, ensuring that real food, dignity, and responsibility return to the heart of community life.
Food today is not only scarce - it is substituted.
Substituted with chemicals instead of nourishment.
Additives instead of ingredients.
Treatments instead of healing.
At the same time, healthcare has become centralized and industrialized, focused more on managing illness than preventing it.
Yet even modern medicine acknowledges the truth:
More than half of pharmaceuticals originate from plant compounds.
God placed healing in creation.
We did not lose this knowledge - we walked away from it.
Before multinational corporations and massive bureaucracies, the Catholic Church built local systems of care.
In California alone, 21 missions operated as complete local economies - producing food, raising livestock, teaching trades, caring for the poor, and placing faith at the center of daily life.
These missions did not rely on distant systems.
They fed people.
They formed communities.
They worked.
When they were dismantled and centralized, most replacements failed.
Because the strength was never the land.
It was Subsidiarity.
ShareNetwork is the national infrastructure that enables local communities and parishes to operate their own systems of food, care, and participation - much like the early missions once did, but without centralized control.
It does not run local programs.
It does not distribute food or money.
It does not replace parishes or ministries.
Instead, ShareNetwork provides:
This allows independent local Share Nodes to function as modern participation hubs - serving their communities with dignity, responsibility, and resilience.
This is not charity as consumption.
If you are able, you participate.
Jesus did not build empires.
He formed a body.
He did not centralize power.
He involved the people.
He did not outsource compassion.
He used what was already present.
He had the people sit down.
He distributed the food through human hands.
Participation was the miracle.
ShareNetwork follows this model - lived locally.