Resourcing Meeting 2022.08.12

Topics

  • Apology for calendaring snafu
  • Aligning on M&A
    • generational transfer of assets
  • Partnership Decisions
  • Update on Proposal for Immediate Pathways to Sustianable Compensation

Check-In On Agenda

  • Any significant objections to advancing the agenda?
  • Any other significant issues to add for this week or next week?

Aligning on M&A

  • Review of Lionsberg Structure
  • Generational Transfer of Assets
  • For Profit organizations
  • Non Profits organizations and networks

Possible FC Partnership

  • Funds for SDGs
  • Contests for SDGs
  • Partnership with UN
  • Likely using Lionsberg / Open Impact tech stack to administer... and creating the budgets to advance infrastructure as a % of flows
  • Issues
    • How many projects can a person run?
    • How to align focus areas well, build organiation around each of them.
    • In distributed network...
      • how do we decide what to do,
        • transparency on decision making
        • metrics
      • how to do it, and
      • how we measure it and
      • report back out to fuel the stream of ongoing funding...
    • Scalability of ability to channel resources...
      • Or orgizations and leaders
      • Progressing towards the Global Goals
    • Dispensing and recieving capital... and the frameworks...
      • How we receive
      • How we fund
      • How decisions are made
      • How we measure and represent progress...

Capital and Hierarchy

  • Old / Dictating structure -
  • Inviting and forcing the practice - how can we engage with illuminated capital in a way that the energetic of engagement is a practice of a new way of being..
  • Not easy to get out of - has to be entirely recirpical outcome to practice ourselves into a new playing field.

Existing Organizations in the Space Wanting to Operate in Harmony

  • Need in the network: Offering helping hand in the forming of FP / NP / Co-Op - entity issues of people growing beyond an entity face - wantitng to not set up in competition but cooperation.
    • Michael - I don't know too many organizations who aren't having this issue.
    • Venture Capital concerns / co-ops concerns
    • Catalist, CTA, Factr, etc.

Technology

  • Open Collective and / vs. Open Impact and / vs. Cobudget
  • Key to getting the Work visible / measurable / fundable
  • Immediate: Patreon or ?

Vincent / Spirit - Funding Database

What Actions Can We Take Immediately?

  • Branding / Marketing / Comms Function - Interface with Funding Group
    • Jordan / Michael / Wendy ++
  • Governance
    • Jordan and Bill working on next levels of agreements and structural clarity
  • Jordan to send out Meeting Series...
  • Formalize FC partnership, leading to public / concrete / network outreach.

Issues

  • Financial proforma / modeling
  • Forrist - need to put focus on telling this story - with the kind of people very skilled in doing this
    • 15 minutes
    • then the layering to get deeper
    • Then using that to attract organizations such as PC etc... to engage the System...
    • Courtship and engagement patterns..
    • What happened... why... what was done as a result...
  • Agreements and "enforcement mechanisms" to start to walk it into being...
  • Different levels of returns for different forms of capitals
  • Generational wealth and equity transfers
    • Majority of companies are not venture backed... financially it is just fast growth / fast equity...
    • A multi-generational system does not have to look for fast growth...
    • 100 year plans...
      • Speak to Japanese / other countries on how they look at 100 year plans...
  • Massive amounts invested in causes that are anti-thetical to the state vision / vision / values of the organizations
  • Each person that engages is a new dendrite...

Long Term

Post Conversation

  • Practical Question of dealing with evil...
  • What is the minimum viable way that will prove a pilot...
  • Can that minimum viable thing be non-redundant.. .
  • Chemical term - nucleation - one tiny crystal...
  • Quality control
  • Michael
    • If you have a micro goal... and someone proposes a credit union...
    • if you have a micro goal... and someone proposes Just Works. www.justworks.com
    • they look super attractive.
    • Lionsberg gives the sense... that we are creating a structure where...
      • if teh highest and greatest goal we are seeking...
      • If the meta project is the end to that goal....
      • Lionsberg is creating a model to empower everyone engaged... the sturucture that supports everyone in getting to that goal.
  • Personal develpment / organizational / community transformation...
    • supportive...
  • What's In, and What's Out
    • What are the mechanisms of defining what is in
      • Values
      • As inclusive as possible but also as clear that creates a frequency of resonance that draws people that align, and dispels those who dont..
    • There will still be those who come in as disrupters - wolf in sheeps clothing...
      • method that is clear / equitable fair to stimulate a PROCESS to move that out...
      • Energy of Love
      • Energy without Love
  • Immune system...
    • clarifying that strongly early on...
    • energetically creating the frequency... that draws onto it that which resonates with coherence...
    • while setting up a field that will cause others to deselect...
    • the lack of clarity... creates caution.. of those who have todiscern..
  • A game... that allows us to call each other out...
    • a process
  • There are wolves in the ecosystem..
  • The incentives / guard rails / internal mechanisms to reward the right things.
    • So even if people try to defeat the system, the incentives pull them back...
  • Everything is a spectrum...
    • we will have it all...
    • so the system needs to be able to grapple with the spectrum...