A MODERN ANALOGY: HOW THIS WORKS IN PRACTICE

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Just as Shopify did not become the world’s largest store, but became the infrastructure that allowed millions of local businesses to exist, ShareNetwork does not become a centralized charity.

Shopify gave independent merchants the tools, standards, and coordination they needed to operate locally without being absorbed by corporations or forced into centralized systems.

ShareNetwork applies that same principle - rooted in Subsidiarity - to hunger and community care.

Instead of running local programs, ShareNetwork provides the infrastructure that allows parishes and communities to feed people themselves: independently, transparently, and at scale - without surrendering control to centralized systems.

SO WHAT IS SHARENETWORK?

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:

• shared standards rooted in Catholic Social Doctrine 
• coordination tools that support local action 
• transparency systems that build public trust 
• education and guidance for local leaders
   

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.

Participation restores dignity.
Dignity rebuilds communities.