International audience"This text studies the relation between money and community and, in particular, how the construction of the community is nourished by money. In order to build the concept of monetary community, it is necessary to go beyond the notion of a pay‐community, as developed by Knapp and adapted by French institutionalists. This text proposes to ground monetary community on purposes. Money thus becomes a teleological project or construction. This reasoning is illustrated by so‐called complementary and community currencies, which pursue three purposes: beyond territorial socio‐economic purposes and monetary purposes, we emphasize the community purpose, through which the building of the monetary project gives momentum to communit...