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Programs and features
What will the community consist of? Here's some features and programs. Also it shows how we might legally structure the entire community.
- Intentional community (ecovillage/cohousing community).
Our group of people living in the community regularly. A growing residential community committed to ecological sustainability and improving female's confidence and leadership. It will most likely have 33 homes and a shared Common House for shared facilities such as guestrooms, meeting space, a large community kitchen for twice weekly community dinners and more.
(Will most likely set up legally as a LLC instead of a homeowners association so that we aren't governed by fair housing laws and so we can choose who can or can't live in the community).
- An Educational Center called “The Learning Center” (TLC).
A place to teach classes which would be held in a room in the Common House or a separate structure. Some classes could be on organic gardening, creative expression, being eco-friendly (renewable energy, biodiesel, recycling & composting), cooking, massage & pampering a Woman, a hair & beauty class for males, male bellydancing, tea service, etc. Some classes will be just for females such as a carpentry for women class, self defense for women, women in art and history, and leadership classes for strengthening the confidence of females and in being the head of their subs/husbands and household. TLC will also house our shared library of supportive and educational books, music, dvd's and other media on various subjects.
This TLC educational /library space will most likely be a room in our Common House and we could additionally hold some classes outside on our land in one of our fields or in a small outdoor platform surrounded by nature.
(If we want to accept tax-exempt donations for it, we could be set up legally as a 501c3 non-profit organization.)
- Overnight Retreat. (maybe)
Once we become established, we could have well-known friends or interested likeminded people stay overnight in one of our guestrooms in our common house or stay with one of our residents for a fee or work exchange.
- Others:
- 3 week visitor program,
- maybe a community newsletter and/or intranet,
- maybe a shared internet center or wi-fi in the common house
- community festivals and celebrations for our residents,
- clubs & organizations in our community that meet in our common house,
- community businesses and members' businesses,
- online store,
- maybe an educational exchange program with a local college,
- workstudy/work exchange,
- a CSA organic garden program (community shared agriculture), etc.
- In addition, we may look into setting up a tax exempt ‘land trust' to protect certain parts of the land from development or a 'land patent'.
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"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
-Mahatma Gandhi.
