====== Cooperative building ======

This page is a directory of resources for building cooperatives and grassroots movements. Expect it to grow!

  * [[https://seedsforchange.org.uk/resources|Resources by Seeds for Change]] - A comprehensive set of guidelines for campaigns and co-operatives that covers facilitation, decision-making, and workshops.
  * [[https://greenandblackcross.org/what-we-do/medics/|Green and Black Cross]] - Legal and first aid support for grassroots movements in Britain.
  * [[https://www.ica.coop/en/cooperatives/cooperative-identity|Cooperative identity, values and principles]] - Basic principles that cooperatives should adhere to, set forth by the International Cooperative Alliance.
  * [[https://ed.coop/|Cooperative Educators Network]] - Full learning programs about all kinds of cooperative enterprises.
  * [[https://decidim.org/|Decidim]] - Decidim is a Free Open-Source participatory democracy platform for cities and organizations. But Decidim is more than a digital platform: it’s a common's free and open project and infrastructure involving code, documentation, design, training courses, a legal framework, collaborative interfaces, user and facilitation communities, and a common vision.
  * [[https://hackmd.io/s/Skh_dXNbE|Resources for decentralised organising]] by Richard D. Bartlett.
  * [[https://www.fci.coop/|Food Coop Initiative]] - Free resources for starting food coops.
  * [[https://wobbly.app/|Wobbly]] - Currently under development. A platform for workplace organization, built on syndicalist principles.
  * [[https://medium.com/enspiral-tales/courage-before-hope-a-proposal-to-weave-emotional-and-economic-microsolidarity-87bc81372a09|Creating courage and community in the last 7 years of the Anthropocene]]
  * [[http://citizenshandbook.org/|The Citizens Handbook]] Grassroots organising \\

==== Tools for cooperatives ====
  * [[https://opencollective.com/|Open Collective]] - is an online funding platform for open and transparent communities. We provide the tools to raise and share your finances in full transparency.

===== Jobs =====

These sites collect job openings in worker's cooperatives and democratic workplaces.

  * UK: [[http://www.coopzone.coop/category/help-wanted/|CoopZone]]
  * UK (tech jobs): [[https://community.coops.tech/c/jobs|CoTech]]
  * US: [[https://usworker.coop/jobs/|U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives]]