Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Best Practices - A document existing on Coho/US website

[Susan Adams (sadams430]

Jubilee is the name of our community, located in Floyd, Virginia.  (aka
Floyd Cohousing and Floyd Jubilee Coho)  We used your slide show as
preparation for our design phase and were so pleased to have some concrete
thoughts and ideas.  It's a great tool.

Please let me  know how I can help on the next draft.  We have a consensus
policy/process in place that includes the facilitator's role and the
participants role for each step.  I haven't seen one like it anywhere.
 We're pretty proud of it.  We are also currently working on several other
policies which we would be happy to share eventually.  I would be happy to
send you my current list of manuals that I have found on websites, if that
would be useful.

Thanks again for all the help your work has given us!

Susan






On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Laura Fitch <lfitch [at] krausfitch.com> wrote:

>
> Susan,
> Wow, so glad it was useful!!  And I am thrilled at the prospect of someone
> gathering more policies for sharing.  It is important to get releases as
> you gather policies...not necessarily formal ones, just an email okay that
> they can bea dded to a document thatwillbe available for others.
> What community are you developing?
> Best, Laura
>
> On Monday, August 11, 2014, Susan Adams <sadams430 [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Laura,
> > I have found this document to be extremely useful.  Our community has
> just
> > entered our design phase, and we are trying to at least establish the
> > values on which our various policies will be based.  It has been so
> useful
> > to read other communities actual policies, particularly membership, pet,
> > rental, and participation.  I would be happy to help keep it up to date
> in
> > anyway that I can.  I have also visited a number of cohousing websites
> and
> > have downloaded every "manual" that I can find...and ongoing project.  My
> > hope is to eventually index my collection.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Susan
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Laura Fitch <lfitch [at] krausfitch.com
> > <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I know it is somewhat out of date (2011), but Coho/US did create
> "Useful
> > > Documents" as a resource for viewing systems and policies from many
> > > existing
> > > communities (link below). We made a conscious decision NOT to evaluate
> > > policies, just to include a range of them.
> > >
> > > I would love someone (a team) to update it!!!  I even have a small
> folder
> > > of
> > > policies to include in the next draft.  I have sent this link and
> > document
> > > to many people since them, but have not heard back about its
> usefulness.
> > >
> > > http://www.cohousing.org/useful_documents
> > >
> > >
> > > Laura Fitch, AIA, LEED BD+C
> > > Kraus Fitch Architects, Inc.
> > > 413-549-5799
> > > lfitch [at] krausfitch.com <javascript:;>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Cohousing-L
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> > krausfitch.com [at] cohousing.org <javascript:;>] On Behalf
> > > Of Sanna McKim
> > > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2014 8:56 AM
> > > To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org <javascript:;>
> > > Subject: [C-L]_ Best Practices
> > >
> > >
> > > Some of us in our community have talked about putting time into
> > collecting
> > > Best Practices and championing an effort to keep it updated and easy to
> > > contribute to. Maybe even figure out a way to rank what works best. How
> > > might this be assessed? Indicated by a long waiting list of people
> > wanting
> > > to get into the community? Number of meals a week? High participation
> in
> > > getting the work done? Low chronic conflict? I'm not sure.
> > >
> > > If anyone knows other people around the country who are interested in
> an
> > > effort like this, maybe it doesn't have to be a FT paid employee, but a
> > > well-organized volunteer effort with some savvy technical folks
> involved?
> > > I'd be interested in taking this idea, anyway, and seeing how we can
> > > improve
> > > sharing with each other what works.
> > >
> > > Sanna McKim
> > > Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage
> > >
> > >
> > >
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