Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Need "Work Group" how-to guidance - help homeless veterans

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Judith Lienhard, Portland Oregon Cascadia Commons Cohousing
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Hello Ty:

what a great project! i would suggest getting in touch with Dignity
Village in Portland and Opportunity Village in Eugene. Dignity Village
is a tiny homes community, self governed, etc

Dignity Village – Since 2000
https://dignityvillage.org/

Dignity Village is a membership-based community in NE Portland,
providing shelter off the streets for 60 people a night since 2001.
It's democratically ..

Opportunity Village Eugene
www.opportunityvillageeugene.org/

Jul 15, 2015 - As we grow into an organization with multiple projects,
Opportunity Village Eugene has recently evolved to SquareOne Villages.
Our mission ...


Quixote Village | Supported by Panza
quixotevillage.com/

Quixote Village grew from the vision of a self-governing tent camp of
homeless adults in Olympia, Washington. The Village consists of 30
tiny cottages, a large .

Regarding getting work done, I suggest:
http://www.cohousing.org/slideshow-work

sending blessings on your project.
Judith Lienhard, Portland Oregon Cascadia Commons Cohousing


Ty wrote:
Dear Cohousing Community;

Can you email me your community's "how to" guidance for work groups?

I'm working with a nonprofit team to develop a tiny house village for
homeless veterans in Denton Texas - which will use cohousing-like design and
community creation strategies; and one of our goals is to establish some
"how to do this" guidance in advance.

We would rather build on the work of others than try to figure out all this
stuff from scratch.

The residents of this village will be responsible to self-manage their
community.  We envision the creation of various work groups who will be
responsible for different aspects of operating the community (mess hall,
grounds, safety & security, conflict resolution, new resident orientation,
etc.).

It would also be helpful it have "how to live in community" guidance.  We
intend to have the community self-govern (with limitations - there is
ministry oversight and resources to be made available) but decisions by full
consensus may be a bit much given the circumstances - so we are looking for
some "Roberts Rules of Order" guidance .. how to conduct a meeting /
organize a community .. etc. type instructions.

If you have anything you are willing to share - guidance - a power point
pitch - a manual - anything for work groups, governance, etc. please email
it to me.

Thank you.

Ty

Ty Albright Project Management
Little Red Hen LLC
214-336-7952
tmalbright [at] verizon.net
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tmalbright