Structure - Organization

→ Who runs the community?

•  The founders co-create a governance structure that allows for self-organization and distributed/local decision making. Instead of a hierarchy, we have a holoarch made up of circles, which have decision making power in their domain. People who are not a part of the circles are not a part of their decision making process. So in fact, this model has very few decision makers, which allows the community to be more complex and diverse compared to a community where everyone is involved in every decision.  

→ How is leadership organized?

• Instead of a hierarchy, we have a holoarch made up of circles, which have decision making power in their domain. 
• People who are not a part of the circles are not a part of their decision making process. 
• This model has very few decision makers, which allows the community to be more complex and diverse compared to a community where everyone is involved in every decision. 
• Every circle has a circle lead and that can be changed democratically within the circle at any time with a majority vote, unless otherwise stated in the constitution. 

→ Who does what?

• Depends on which roles are needed.
• Stewards may keep a space available and set, 
• Wisdom  council can make sure new plans are honoring the values
• Systems designers can help the flow of all processes 
• Techies can tech out
• Every role will explain what accountabilities and responsibilities the role holder has. Members are likely to hold multiple roles, making everyone's contributions to the community unique and customized to their preferences and skills as well as the Common Unity's immediate needs. . 

→ How is leadership incentivized for their work?

• Self-leadership is incentivized through team accountability and the shared joy of purposeful work being done on time
• All are incentivized through a shared economy and building of something bigger
• Freedom
• Leadership will be highly distributed and project-centric. 
• Each circle may have a leader and typically they are the vision holders for the project.
• Many will find themselves doing smaller projects on their own, this is a form of leadership.

→ Who hires and manages staff?

•  In our case, we will be an organization and everyone will be an employee/staff. It is worth considering what talent scouting could look like with an organization such as  ours. Short answer, circle leads can recruit more members or invite outside talent to their circle to fulfill circle roles.  

→ What functions are considered critical for survival?

• Basic Needs
• Resource gathering
• Agreement fields to maintain the trust and positive story
• Solutionary processes for the same reason
• Food  and housing production

→ What is the legal entity of the community and what requirements come with it?

•  Realistically, modeling our organization after Mondragon could work real well. What this looks like is an umbrella organization with other legal organizations within, LLC, non-profit, etc. The Land Trust would be one entity, The CSA program would likely be another. Rephrasing, the Mondragon model has the umbrella organization with hundreds of organizations within. These organizations are set up based on their purpose, needs and offerings, meaning some will be for profit others will be non-profit. This just makes sense in the typical business world. It allows profits to be moved around without tax penalties. It allows for for-profit businesses to have liability protections and offers layers of security when interacting with the public.