Worker Cooperative

Consumer Cooperative

  1. Member Capital & Fees
    1. Annual Membership Dues as Member Capital
    2. Membership Fees for services and other benefits.
  2. Investment Certificates
    1. Non-voting Investment Certificates (Member and non-members)
  3. Grants
  4. Arts & Cultural Production
    1. Fees from sale of fine art.
  5. Knowledge Production
    1. Worker-Owners contribute to a library of knowledge by offering one skill as a class, workshop, and or presentation.
    2. Ownership of both digital infrastructure and data allows the Network to capitalize the value of the data, based on member agreement and discretion.
    3. Data aggregation and analysis serves as virtuous-cycle for evidence based decision making for business strategy.
    4. Sell access to Network as a research and survey market.
  6. Land & Real Estate
    1. Gallery Network
      1. Partner with BnB rental owners, cafes, and other high traffic spaces appropriate for Salon style gallery spaces, to sell art where people are.
    2. Land Development & Rentals
      1. Purchase land to develop function and site specific rental and retail properties.
        1. Luxury camping ground with multi-use prefab structures.
  7. Design & Marketing Services
    1. Member-owner focused services
    2. Out of Network business services
  8. Merchandising
    1. Clothing
    2. Branded Product Packs
      1. Seasonal promotional products as Blind Boxes for personalization of brand merchandise.
  9. Events
    1. Fundraisers
    2. Parties
    3. Gallery Openings
    4. Skill Building Workshops
    5. Conferences
  10. Entertainment
    1. Develop entertainment properties and intellectual property. Fund and produce ideas from the cooperative network.
    2. Use the Distributed Digital Infrastructure for the development of a video game platform.
  11. Research and Patents
    1. Emphasize the knowledge production focus of the cooperative network. Fund industry related experiments and secure patents for successful inventions.
  12. Licensing
    1. Licensing of IP developed within the cooperative network.
    2. Artist to Network licensing of usage rights for selected works. (Merchandising)
  13. Business Development
    1. Fund new projects and business through Detroit Soup Style events.
    2. Fund experiments as business ventures when proven to be successful.
  14. Fractional Gold as Member Currency
    1. Invest in fractional gold as a member currency counts as an asset for financial accounting. All fractional gold held as an asset gains values against inflation of the dollar.

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