Mutual Aid Network Basic Start-Up Guide
- Establish your core group
- Ask your friends to help if they share your goal. You'll need at least one outgoing person.
- Host exploratory meeting/s – here’s a link to a checklist for organizing an in-person event.
- Developing your message
- Using varying media
- neighborhood papers
- flyers
- emails
- social media
- word of mouth
- fun invitations
- Establish goals
- what needs are you aiming to fill?
- host visioning gatherings
- Establish decision-making process and light governance model. Sociocracy and consent decision making work well for the HUMANs.
- Vision for how MAN framework could meet those goals
- visioning exercises to follow goal-setting exercises
- share videos and stories of how others have begun projects
- 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.
- Identify assets and needs as they apply to your goals
- The Timebanking Yarn Game – Instructions for basic, interactive game to demonstate how timebanks work. Download as Word Doc and a PDF
- The Build a Better World Game – for group project facilitation learning
- Join the HUMANs global Mutual Aid Network
- Start timebanking – Join our HOME marketplace and play there or ask us to help you set up your own.
- Set up project page and account in our HOME marketplace (or your own timebank).
- 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.
- Pay HUMAN hours from project for all the time going into it
- Use Poshterity budgeting tools to create budget for project and individual budgets for participants
- Organize, adopt MAN Cooperative legal structure if desired
- If you decide to create a Common Fund to pool money for the organization and/or its members
- Play NZ Savings Pool Game
- Adopt base agreement
- Open Common Fund account
- Play NZ Savings Pool Game