SGCC Principles of Operation

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This page will be to develop our "Principles of Operation" and "ways of being". We'll be looking for input from successful organizations who have learned to operate on a consensus, democratically run basis.

SGCC Statement of Principles DRAFT (please contribute!)

Reference Docs from Community Builders

Community Builders is an "anarchist principled" democratically run enterprise based in Cambridge. Their documents were provided in the hopes that they can help other co-ops get started.

Model Articles of Incorporation

Educational Resources

Consensus decision making process

Worker Co-operative Internal Structure Wikipedia Entry

International Cooperative Alliance Statement of Cooperative Principles

[Repository of Coop Docs]

[List of Coops] that we can use to look for other co-op administrative documents and examples of operating principles