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==INTRODUCTION==

The Sheba Green Cleaning Co-Op emerged from Occupy Boston as activists decided to start to "Occupy the Economy" by forming their own Green Cleaning Co-operative, worker-owned/operated company.  The intent is to show people how to start co-operatives that operate in a horizontal-democratically run enterprise. Modelled after "anarchist" organizational principles, exhibitied in operations such as the Community Builders Cooperative, which has been operating under such principles for over 30 years, we hope to develop experience and templates/instructional tools to help the Cooperative Movement flourish.

While we are only one of many co-ops starting across the country, we believe that each one is important, as we try to catalyze enough of these co-operatives that by 2050, we'll see over 50% of the workforce working in democratically run enterprise.  In this way, we can reshape capitalism.

==WAYS TO HELP by donating ==

We hope that you will help "kickstart" us by donating money to help us get started.  See our [[SGCC Financials]] page for details on what we plan to do with the money.

There are several levels of participation:

- operations donor:

-- for any $ amount, we welcome you as an "operations donor"
-- for donations of $50 or more, we welcome you to pick up a free bottle of our cleaning product at our opening night party.

- party donor:
-- for any $ amount, we welcome you to donate to our party/social event fund, where we will have lectures and show people what we are doing and, of course, have fun!

- product donor, basic:  for anyone that donates $10 to our cause, we will award you with a bottle of our wonderful cleaning product, which you are welcome to pick up at our "opening night", or if you want to pay for deliver, we can bring it to you.
- product donor, wahoo: for anyone that donates $100 or more, we will award you with several bottles of our wonderful cleaning product and deliver it to your doorstep, along with a certificate telling the world that you have been so generous.

==WAYS TO HELP by becoming a GREEN CLEANING customer==

- cleaning customer (if you want an office building in the Boston area that you need cleaned, please contact us.

==Other WAYS TO HELP==

-- if you have a physical space that you can donate to a party or to help us store and/or mix product, please let us know.

- participant: if you want to help clean, produce product, market, or otherwise organize, please email us.  We are happing to consider new employee/owner members, as well as to accept volunteer effort, if you're able to help for free.