The Bridge Society
It is in the shelter of each other that the people live—Irish proverb
1.Community commons space (tea room, dance floor, child play space, late night quiet place)
2.Student , traveler and transitional housing/lodging for elders , families ,and others (hostel/inn)
3.Food security and health education and action (gardening, food processing and preservation to cooking , exercise and beyond, (1 in 3 diabetic within 15 years, food travels over 1500 miles between farm and table, conviviality builds community)
4.Personal and family development and communication education ( opportunity to learn to work and play well with others))
5.Community meeting space (physical, virtual and melded via skype, livestreaming etc.)
6.“Maker” shop (see Maker movement) ideally including desktop CNC, 3-D printing and anything else needed for rapid prototyping, small machine shop, wood shop,metal shop, sewing...sufficient to design,
make and repair tools and objects of use of many kinds
7.Strong web presence for scheduling community activities on and off site and virtual, maintaining guests and members ties to home communities, real and virtual, internet business activities...
8.Micro-business incubation and development for locally oriented community scale businesses. When I say locally oriented and community scale, I don't mean such a business could never grow to serve larger markets, but that they would focus on filling a special kind of local need. These needs are in the area of improving community food, resource and energy security. Another way to say it would be: These businesses market products and services to help local physical and virtual communities to become more sustainable, both environmentally and socially.
Relocalising Center
Localising Community Center
Renaissance Center
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Structure as a 501c10 non-profit fraternal organization, with some functions being funded as fraternal activites, others as charitable and educational activities.
501c 10 groups are an easy fit for operating for profit businesses where the profits go to charity. Their limitation and strength is that the for-profit businesses they are allowed to operate without tax on income are only those which serve members.
-For-profit charity has powerful potential as a change engine that serves the public good, especially if the missions, services and products of the for-profit businesses are designed to help in the process of moving towards a sustainable future. (think local and regional rainwater catchment equipment and services, home and community food security and health products and services...) Make profit and do good on both sides of the bottom line. Target donations to charities working in the same field of interest, and truly make your living building the good world we can all live in.
Occupy Your Future!
It is in the shelter of each other that the people live—Irish proverb
1.Community commons space (tea room, dance floor, child play space, late night quiet place)
2.Student , traveler and transitional housing/lodging for elders , families ,and others (hostel/inn)
3.Food security and health education and action (gardening, food processing and preservation to cooking , exercise and beyond, (1 in 3 diabetic within 15 years, food travels over 1500 miles between farm and table, conviviality builds community)
4.Personal and family development and communication education ( opportunity to learn to work and play well with others))
5.Community meeting space (physical, virtual and melded via skype, livestreaming etc.)
6.“Maker” shop (see Maker movement) ideally including desktop CNC, 3-D printing and anything else needed for rapid prototyping, small machine shop, wood shop,metal shop, sewing...sufficient to design,
make and repair tools and objects of use of many kinds
7.Strong web presence for scheduling community activities on and off site and virtual, maintaining guests and members ties to home communities, real and virtual, internet business activities...
8.Micro-business incubation and development for locally oriented community scale businesses. When I say locally oriented and community scale, I don't mean such a business could never grow to serve larger markets, but that they would focus on filling a special kind of local need. These needs are in the area of improving community food, resource and energy security. Another way to say it would be: These businesses market products and services to help local physical and virtual communities to become more sustainable, both environmentally and socially.
Relocalising Center
Localising Community Center
Renaissance Center
????
Structure as a 501c10 non-profit fraternal organization, with some functions being funded as fraternal activites, others as charitable and educational activities.
501c 10 groups are an easy fit for operating for profit businesses where the profits go to charity. Their limitation and strength is that the for-profit businesses they are allowed to operate without tax on income are only those which serve members.
-For-profit charity has powerful potential as a change engine that serves the public good, especially if the missions, services and products of the for-profit businesses are designed to help in the process of moving towards a sustainable future. (think local and regional rainwater catchment equipment and services, home and community food security and health products and services...) Make profit and do good on both sides of the bottom line. Target donations to charities working in the same field of interest, and truly make your living building the good world we can all live in.
Occupy Your Future!
This is a basic sketch of my vision for a fraternal organisation.http://www.irs.gov/publications/p557/ch04.html for IRS info about 501c8-10 organisations and the relevant legal structure http://www.pythias.org/about/about.php is about the Knight's of Pythias, a good example of a fraternal society with its statement of purpose and principles.
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