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Grassroots Economics Foundation supports communities to build practical systems of mutual credit, local exchange, and regenerative livelihood. This documentation is the stable reference hub for our public methods, policies, legal templates, field guides, software guides, and educational materials.

Our current work centers on Commitment Pooling: communities issue redeemable commitments as Community Asset Vouchers, place them in shared pools, and use transparent rules to exchange, settle, and account for real goods, services, care, labor, and ecological work.

For the public organization website, visit grassecon.org. For the live Sarafu Network platform, visit sarafu.network.

Current work

  • Commitment Pooling: A protocol and practice for routing promises, settlement, and mutual support through shared pools.
  • Sarafu Network: The live platform for Community Asset Vouchers, Commitment Pools, reports, maps, and wallet access.
  • Social Soil: An educational farming and village-trading game for learning ecology, exchange, cooperation, and community systems.
  • Cosmo-Local Credit: Shared routing, clearing, governance, and safety infrastructure for networks of Commitment Pools.
  • Ecosystem stewardship: Field work around soil, food production, agroecology, restoration, and community-led accountability.
  • Research and education: Open learning materials, training guides, case studies, publications, and public data references.

How this site is organized

  • Community: Participation, contribution paths, community governance, and the roadmap.
  • Operations: Field implementation guides for Commitment Pools, voucher creation, stakeholder engagement, and support.
  • Commons: Economic Commons agreements, legal templates, PATH and SPROUT licenses, and related policy documents.
  • Policies: Data, privacy, child protection, app privacy, and public terms.
  • Software: Sarafu Network, software stack, wallet and pool guides, developer links, and live tools.
  • Education: FAQ, glossary, training guides, games, case studies, and research links.
Last update: 2026-05-12
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