Welcome to The Collective
Systems change requires a collectivist approach.
This is THE place.
Here is where we will keep ALL our content, bringing together all creative, academic, and business research and writing under one umbrella: The Collective.
The Collective is our answer to a failing economy and broken social contract.
To change the current capitalist crap to a Social and Solidarity Economy will take us matching their moves, step for step. For profit social enterprise and consultancy. ✅ Nonprofit 501c3. ✅ Think tank. ✅ Education, Products, Resources. ✅ ✅ ✅
We have to match capitalism punch for punch, org for org, system for system. No one said it would be easy, but we know change is coming and we intend to be in the room this time!
We're here to transform our global economy into the Social and Solidarity Economy by working together, prioritizing the voices of those who have previously been left out. We have the solutions to make our world work for everyone.
The Collective is the web of everyone in our sphere, and it's interconnected and interdependent just like a complex mycelium network. Mutualism and collectivism are how we build a Future of Work that works for all of us.
Together, we find our flow.
Words matter.
This first iteration of CFPC was created to pull Collective content from all over the web and from 3rd party platforms and social media into one central location.
Ultimately we want to build a platform we host ourselves, but until we have the funds, we use Gitbook as our hub. We chose an open source platform that is not driven by Ad revenue and a place where our content is our own.
Our approach: Our holistic, systems change approach to changing our economy is to build more businesses for good, publish more creators and experts advocating for a progressive, inclusive, and accessible world.
Our goal: to amplify our voices, tell our stories, help new businesses from underestimated founders thrive. We The People define what The Economy is for us.
Our vision: an ecosystem consists of consulting, publishing, nonprofits, think tanks, and co-created education that fits the way we work and serves our shared values of people and planet over profit.
Our Vision for CFPC and beyond.
Co Flow Publishing Co (aka CFPC) is not an org...yet. Our vision for "The Collective" is for CFPC to become the coop of our multi-org ecosystem to Change Management.
CFPC will be a worker-owned publishing cooperative (and Think Tank) by 2028.
We are currently fundraising through FLOWLab⁵ Open Collective and seeking sponsors for our first media and design projects that explore our key policy and research areas: Ethical Tech and Design, Media and Publishing, Public Health, Management Consulting and Small Business.
gender and racial gaps in business consulting, publishing, media, and academia
platform economies for alternative governance
non-extractive financing and exit to community for just capital
access to the arts and the impact of design accessibility for public health
sustainable solopreneurship and social entrepreneurship
worker-owned cooperatives, collectives, and community stewardship
Our Collective is creating "smaller" with fellow MSMEs, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, as defined by the EU (under 50 employees). We envision a To Be Named economy for the people that incorporates the Creator Economy, Knowledge Economy, Platform Economy, and Social & Solidarity Economy to a yet to be named replacement for capitalism.
We have already begun to support our network and community of educators, academics, and creators by amplifying their work, helping host events, sharing their publishing endeavors on our social channels, and featuring them in our coFLOWco Bookshop (launched 2021). We feature members work as part FLOWLab⁵'s FTP Book Club, launching Spring 2023. We have received project submissions and want to begin compensating creators and researchers by 2024.
By 2025 through funds raised in FLOWLab⁵ we hope to publish our first data viz research to educate people about social entrepreneurship, ethical business practices and economic policies to fuel our transition to a just and equitable economy.
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Collective Flow Publishing Co.
Collective Flow Publishing Co., aka CFPC, is the current home to The Collective's different work and information streams, linking to all of the orgs in our ecosystem. It's also where we will publish new work moving forward (even if it's also posted to Medium, LinkedIn or our blog.)
Perspectives: Posts, Reactions, and Reviews by We The People, unfiltered.
We work and live together, even when we are not able to be together. Our economy, business, commerce/trade/idea sharing is one big system. It only "functions" when it works for all of us.
Papers: Research, Reports, and Policies: Political and Economic analysis for We the People, without the gatekeeping.
We cannot change work if we don't get involved and stay informed about laws and trends that affect the most vulnerable.
Created and curated by coFLOWco with the contributions from FLOWLab member researchers, creators, and educators.
1. THE HOT LIST by coFLOWco
Created for solopreneurs and founders.
Founding members of FLOWLab⁵ are our muse.
The HOT LIST is an experimental newsletter/publishing platform of curated content for busy founders. Currently we're using Padlet to test out a mini-feed. Preview the first 5 issues here.
Want more Tools and Tips? Want Top 5 lists to read, follow, listen to, use, or watch. Sign up so you don't miss an issue here.
We curate the internet for creators, founders, and solopreneurs...so you can do you.
🔥Guaranteed fuel for your fire.
2. More Research and Gray Papers by coFLOWco
For analysis of the state of the economy, politics, climate, and more...we go spelunking all over the web and find the deep cuts that tell the story of the moment. We amplify diverse creators, scientists, writers, and journalists. We seek out storytellers with lived experience or ties to the issues we cover whenever possible.
We aren't the authority on everything but we don't have to be. Listen to trusted voices and experts from the community most affected and walk away more informed, with a full picture, connected to the truth. Read our first Undercurrent here on the 2022 Supreme Court Spring that set us back decades.
We amplify great startups or projects that are "Leading with Purpose," because the patriarchy isn't going to fix itself.
And additional pieces published by Emily Weltman here.
Currently hosted on our website but transitioning to a new platform asap.
6. cFc Libraries for FLOWLab⁵ Members Only
Coming soon...
The FLOWLab⁵ is where we come together to iterate, ideate, ruminate, and maybe procrastinate. We gather in service of never working for “The Powers That Be” ever again.
We’re leading with a purpose—to create more opportunities for diverse leaders to survive the first 5 years in business.
Self-employment can be a minefield. Google is not a reliable business advisor. Your family is sick of hearing about your biz. FLOWLab⁵ is here to help you find your way.
Together, our social change agents and neurodivergent content creators are making space for mutual learning, mutual support, and conscious collaboration.
We're still growing our beta community of small business owners, consultants, startup founders, and solopreneurs. Join here!
Find your way here.
The Future of Work does not work without us. Period.
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