# TRANSFERED BY JORDAN TO LIONSBERG WIKI # October 27, 2022 Governance Discussion - Generative Local Community Initiative + Lionsberg / Meta Project ## Agenda - Share Generative local community model and governance needs – Jason and Ted - Review Mondragon and other researched governance models - Lionsberg model - Jordan and Bill - Questions/feedback/ next steps - All ## People attending and why - Ted - works with large health systems - redesigns to achieve population health - been working with Generative Local Communities Institution - Jane Lorand - Catalytic Thinking Labs - Green MBA - Wind Tunneling - Tracey Huston - Michael Grossman - Factr - Bill Larson - Extensive history with Jordan re governance - Jason Schulist - Generative Local Community Institute - Imiagine Fox Cities - Jordan Sukut - Lionsberg and meta project - Mondregon - John Brogan - CEO of Bank of Kaukauna - Access to capital at early stages of environments... - how banks serve as catalist in early stages for early stages... - Co-Founder of Fork Farms? growing healthy greens - using aquaponic aquaculture - Rick - Governance interests strong - Supporting Parklawn Village - generative local community model ## Ted - President of Miller electric - source - been working 1.5 years through this model... share, and discuss problem relating to governance - Every individual born wtih a unique potential - acorn to oak tree - genertically coded... that we can achieve - The introduction of elements and condtiions determine whether it can flourish, or not... - WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS... rain, relationships, embodied learning, higher calling... - what are the conditions that need to be in palce for an individual to floruish - Generativity - group of people or community flourishing together... not single acord ot oak but whole forest - environmental conditions so people can flourish together. - idea of experiment to run around how we might build a generative local community in reality... - 5 things we know the world already knows how to do - local organisations supporting local business - convert money into flourishing - - organisations that do this already - take money and deliver conditions for a population - Intellectual, spiritual, adn physical flourishing - local anchoring orgs supporting local business - Key instutions thgat are. local, local health, education, utilites, government, private business - each with own supply chain needs - can have big impact on economy by keeping those supply chain needs local... - Vs. outsourcing to larger multinational corporation - creating local business network - idea of multiple - the sum being greater than the parts - synergies - By pulling local busiensses together under single banner, they can work together... - GLC prototype - in Miluakee - govern a network of businesses - If you are pulling together a network, how would they potentially be governeed - Mondragon - DAO. - we know it is possible - Governance becomes the really focus when we have pitched... it is at heart of how the whole thing fworks... - Mondragon as a story / prophesy / proof it is possible... - social impact investors focus investment on root cause issues. - working on root causes of issues - available capital to be investted in social and community development work - Complexity mindset and intercoonnected mindset on how we invest those dollars... - We are not focused on Issue 4 - What if we could connect these 5 things in a neighborhood system... if we did that... would that allow us to achieve or move towards GRC concept... - Can you cash flow positive this network of businesses - incubator kitchen - laundromat - by day retail - evening commercial / industrial - fork to farms - restraurant - yoga center... - primary reason is to create flourishing... but need cash flow... and nice to have community anchor organizations create more cash flow - Expect cash flow positive ina way there is profit at the end - not for short term... but for long term... discerning how they convert extra resources into various forms of flourishing... - Assume network is run like agenerative business - set of principles... that is not optimizing wages at the top, but distributes it so that everyone has a living wage... - can we do money conversion to flourishing, and can we manage a network of businesses effectively - Jane - are you assuming one model of governance is appropriate for all - economic (ecosystem of businesses) - social cultural - rights - each have unique nuances. - It is all hypothesis - so whatever we do is a test of that hypothesis... - Any business... shaped by economic and social realities it serves... - In short term old world... businesses have to profit to survive (potential problem) - - not about short term thinking with domapine - Investors who understand the long term - short term is ROI... - but also impacting continued legacy... - so that after 10 years - willing to step aside from ownership so that neighborhood can flourish... - After 8 years - 30k / month going back into the hands of hte community - to invest in microloans to help with home ownership... - homes increasingly owned outside community and outside country... - to local community land trusts... - Forrist - building thriving regional food ecosystems... - the relationship of all regional ecosystemtic elements to one another... - nature of governance - networks plural not network - how do you put together governance for networks, where members are alliance or coalition of networks, which is different than governance of specific organization or network... - an allinace of multiple networks, or single business networks... - concept of marketplaces - how critical marketplaces are to be able to really generate revenue flow necessary to regenerate and rebuild a particular community based on what community itself articulates through faciliated process over a period of months... - - revenue flow - rebuild what the community wants - Black assembly of God / church of God network - so could be scalable and deployed in many places using faith based communities... - - learn from this project and then scale - Discrete autonomous identites stepping out of identiteis to participate in something different - that leads to conflicting interests... - vs. netowrk of people who are contributing to different uses - generative business contrives many different uses, revenue streams, times of day, etc... - federated co-op model - taking into the DAO realm... - Functioanl and identity limitations keep showing up - I wonder why? - by naming a netowrk of businesses - honoring difference as well as wholeness... - Network of to happen to us as individuals... give we are trained to see mine, network, territory, identity... - so that we can work in wholeness... - Individual entrepreneurs in a network? - or a conglomerate managed by one governance structure? - what is the set of principles to be part? - do we use what exists in the place? - take what exists and exapt - Some type of governance, across a bunch of businesses, connected together as a unit... - if we have money coming out... how do we govern how it does... - B Corp certifications... - DAOs... - Sub model of certification for generative business, that is a form of B Corp... - Co-Ops, - Trusts... - Solve the underlying problem... of is your goal of a board member to maximize shareholder revenue... or other obligations - Jordan - long history with dense interaction with Mondragon - where this model works and where it does not - interview with the keeper of Mondragon - Jose - synthesis into a system of system - in any community - customised - allow interoperability - go to this part of recording for details - figure it out for one generative community and all of them are different - figure out the complexity as we go Bill Larson - lifetime and record that - expressing it simply is challenge - pull people towards expressing their problems by induction - series of classes or sessions to discuss each of the elements - BCorp LC3 - moderating structures - Solve a different problem - - intergenerational cutoff of equity value... - dysfunction seeps in value that was grow over long time - could value been used all along the way - more real time - now non-profit is there to serve rather than solve problem - non-profits incentivised seek money and always stay in business - none of the decisions are enough... - if a for profit is completely free to act in certain ways... - non profit certain benefits - what if we merge them? - The non profit owns the for profit - - C Corp is owned by non-profit - there is never a problem of duty to shareholder - at the very bottom is community of values - free participation of people of like mind - Values and purpose oriented community - give rise to intergenerational protection of values - not dissipating the equity after one generation - various forms of joint venture and cooperative relationship - considers human impact, universal elements, onboarding - training etc need to be knit into the structure ## Let's Host a Series - Top questions - Top dysfunctions... - Proposed Solution... - ## General Notes - "You can't really design complex systems" - Complexity, applied thinking, learning - Use of metaphors to explain complexity - 'acorn to oak tree' and 'the whole forest'