International Council for Cultural Centers (I3C)

The University of Massachusetts Amherst inspired by the I3C initiative "Bread Houses Network" launched a Pioneer Valley Bread House! 

See more: https://blogs.umass.edu/breadhouse/

The BREAD Movement has been recognized by the European Social Innovation Network, which is building and streamlining the social innovation field in Europe by using three overlapping approaches:

1. Researching and publishing a series of reports and recommendations for action which will define, analyze and support the best work in the field. 

It all started with a simple idea: a community cultural center filled with the aroma of hot bread, and hot bread made by all people of a community breaking it together across age, gender, class, culture. And it proved to be a very successful model of a community-building method, space, and social enterprise. The first Bread House was founded in December of 2009 at Nadezhda Savova's old family home in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, as a dream, love, hobby, and an experiment coordinated by local volunteers inspired by Nadezhda's vision.