Community Forge ist eine registrierte Non-Profit Organisation in Genf, Schweiz, die lokalen Gemeinschaften hilft, sich auf die Veränderungen, die jetzt im globalen System stattfinden, einzustellen.

Community Forge glaubt:

Die entwickelten Länder sind nicht in der Lage auf die derzeitigen Veränderungen im notwendigen Ausmass zu reagieren. Das derzeitige Geldsystem, ursprünglich dafür entworfen die industrielle Revolution zu fördern, braucht ständig Wirtschaftswachsum und belohnt kurzfristiges Profitdenken gegenüber langfristigen und nachhaltigen Formen der Wirtschaft.

Wir müssen beginnen, Dinge wertzuschätzen, die Geld normalerweise nicht belohnt - von Indonesischen Flachmooren zu nicht angestellten Arbeitenden zur Würde der Armen - und wir brauchen ein neues Geldsystem dafür.

Further, we believe that the scarcity of money, another design feature of the prevailing system which means, has a mass psychological impact and may account for many of the evils which some would write off as the insoluble 'human condition'.

Further, we reject the particlar globalisation doctrine which our politicians are driving us towards. It is increasing the gap between rich and poor and between politicians and the electorate. We call for increased localisation for psychological, environmental and economic reasons.

Further, as the planet gets more crowded and the resources increasingly scarce, we feel great urgency because every moment these problems are not resolved compounds the suffering of billions of our fellows, not to mention other species with whom we cannot identify.

We believe communities should be taking the initiative, organising themselves, providing their own services, managing their own economies, as well as energy, food & communications.

Board

Tim Anderson, Manager; Radfahrer, Vater, und Unternehmer der neun Welt
Matthew Slater, Sekretär; Architekt des Drupal Moduls für Komplementärwährungen
Shawn Berlin, Buchhalter; reisender Pizzaofeningenieur und Geschäftsentwickleritinerant
Daniel Stein, Sozialer Netzwerker; Sozialer Umgestalter und Erneuerer und Liebhaber neuer Medien

Associates

Value for People Complementay currency design consultancy & training
Tim Inkpen Server Support
Daniel Walmsley Web systems management

The statutes of the association are as follows.

Decision making organs:
The Primary decision making organ shall be the committee and anything affecting the statutes shall be decided by the General Assembly.
To change the aims or dissolve the association should require a 2/3 majority in the General Assembly.
All comittee members shall have the authority to commit the association to thrid parties.

Mitglieder
Mitgliedsbeitrag 20 CHF pro Jahr
No member will be responsible for more than one year's membership fees in the case of the association being liquidated with debts.
If the association is dissolved with money spare, excess funds would be given to LETSlink UK

Community Forge is a not-for-profit association based in Geneva. It's team is distributed and usually located in Europe. It hopes to build a viable business model and remain independent, but is interested in talking to investors.

Mission
The mission of Community Forge is as follows
By offering economic tools, to enable real-world and virtual communities to declare their own localised currencies, and to trade in them using open source software, thus building a more sustainable economy for the 21st century.

Strategy
Starting with a LETS architecture coded into the Drupal platform, Community Forge is starting by providing as many LETS (Tauschring in German) communities with transaction-enabled social networking web sites. Where possible it seeks to train teams who can offer support at the national level.

Values
Consultants shall not be paid more than the Swiss National average for the given skill level
Difference between best and worst paid will not be more than a factor of 3
To practice what we preach i.e. using a local currency between ourselves

Aims

1. to enable communities to use mutual credit currencies as part of a larger localisation movement
2. to campaign and educate for interest free money
3. to concentrate expertise and foster experimentation in CC design