On March 25, 2008- the Top 20 Teams remaining in the Case Foundation’s Make It Your Own (MIYO) Awards will contend for a shot at the Final Four. By chance or by design, this is coinciding with the NCAA Basketball Tournament. March Madness has begun. Sixty-five college basketball teams are vying for a shot at the final four. Twenty citizen-centered service projects are vying for one of the Final Four positions. However, the MIYO Final Four is not a about the game of basketball. It is about the game of LIFE! It’s about people helping people to live life more abundantly. It’s about including people in making decisions that affect their lives. It’s about preparing people for leadership. It’s about creating opportunities for all people to sit down at the table as equals in dialogue toward creating ideas and solutions for a healthy community. But it’s more than talk. It’s also about action- getting up from the table and executing those ideas. This is my PROJECT DIARY about one such program, the United Neighbors Common Council- a program of talk and action, dialogue and doing- and our ride to the Final Four. GET ON THE BUS! Take a ride through MY PROJECT DIARY and learn about the community, people, organizations, and motivation behind the UNCommon Council initiative.