Be The Change Wiki
Be The Change Cooperative
Be The Change Cooperative - A cooperative of local communities co-creating regenerative community buildings governed and owned by local neighborhoods through a shared platform.
How to help?
Basic needs
Jobs
Self esteem
Place-Based Cooperatives
Commongrounds
Commongrounds - A new 4-story, 50,000 s.f. $16 million development in Traverse City, Michigan cooperatively owned by nearly 600 members. It will feature a food incubator, coffeeshop, distillery, childcare center, cowering space for impact organizations and businesses, performing arts and events space, artist-in-residence space, and 24 workforce rental units. Construction began in Fall 2020, with tenants scheduled to move in by 2022.
DC Arts + Wellness Co-Creation Hub
DC Arts + Wellness Co-Creation Hub - An arts and wellness real estate cooperative based on arts, wellness, nature and indigenous values hosting community events, plant medicine ceremonies, workshops and creative, educational experiences. It will be located in a DC neighborhood to be determined with a groundbreaking goal of 2022, with a projected ownership of 1000 members.
Mutualistic Communication + Governance
Partnerism
Partnerism - A socio-economic system that values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future. Partnerism is based on Cultural Transformation Theory, which proposes that societies used to follow a mutualistic, caring “partnership model” of civilization, giving way to today's current “dominator model” of civilization, but with growing evidence that we are returning to the partnership model.
Self Organization
Self Organizing Systems
Self Organizing Systems - A list of self-organizing systems
Sensemaking
Sensemaking - A primer on the process by which people give meaning to their collective experiences.
Co-Creation
Co-Creation Systems - Systems, models, tools for co-creation
Decentralized Financing
SEEDS
- SEEDS - An overview of the SEEDS ecosystem.
- SEEDS Changemakers to Citizens Pilot Program - An ambassador program to onboard changemakers to SEEDS Citizens.
- SEEDS Changemaker Guide - A Changemaker's guide to participating in the SEEDS ecosystem.
- SEEDS Glossary - A glossary of key terms in the SEEDS ecosystem.
- SEEDS Roadmap - An overview of the future of SEEDS.
- SEEDS FAQ - Frequently asked questions.
- SEEDS Gratitude - An overview of the innovative gratitude system in SEEDS.
- Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies - A framework for ecosystem building based on Theory U.
Reducing inequality and inequity
Resources
Glossary - Terms that define the co-creation of a world of mutuality