MAN Up quick and dirty checklist

  1. Who is your core group? why?
    1. To establish core group – host exploratory meeting/s – here’s a link to a checklist for organizing an in-person event. coming: links to agendas, videos and handouts, invitation lists and guides for outreach
    2. Developing your message
    3. Using varying media
      • neighborhood papers
      • flyers
      • emails
      • social media
      • word of mouth
      • fun invitations
  2. Establish goals
    1. host visioning gatherings
  3. Vision for how MAN framework could meet those goals
    1. visioning exercises to follow goal-setting exercises
    2. share videos and stories of how others have begun projects
    3. The Dream Time Visioning Game-pdf and The Dream Time Visioning Game-odt (modifiable)  This is designed to help you envision how you can use timebanking to meet specific community goals, or start projects.
  4. Identify assets and needs as they apply to your goals
    1. The Timebanking Yarn Game – Instructions for basic, interactive game to demonstate how timebanks work. Download as Word Doc and a PDF
    2. The Build a Better World Game – for group project facilitation learning 
  5. Start timebanking – Join our HOME marketplace and play there or ask us to help you set up your own.
    1. Play with it. Group activities and applied timebanking for small projects
  6. Join the HUMANs global Mutual Aid Network
  7. Set up project page and account in our HOME marketplace (or your own timebank).
  8. If you want more active support in creating or sustaining a sister project, consider joining with a Dreamer level membership, and benefit from some of our open source tech tools along with our peer support network.
  9. Pay HUMAN hours from project for all the time going into it
  10. Use Poshterity budgeting tools to create budget for project and individual budgets for participants
  11. Organize, adopt MAN legal structure if desired [coming: guide to various legal structures, where and why. guide toward minimal structure needed. legal documents and instructions, places to find technical assistance]
  12. Determine goal for Common Fund
    1. Play NZ Savings Pool Game
    2. Adopt base agreement
  13. Open Common Fund account – [coming: basic guide. Different models, when/why needed, policies, template agreements, legal considerations]