Commons¶
The Commons section holds legal and governance templates for community-driven financial instruments such as Community Asset Vouchers and Commitment Pools.
Status note: Some agreements, declarations, and licenses in this section preserve platform-specific legal source text. Their presence here does not make them the current CLC Terms or establish that historical Sarafu services and obligations migrated to CLC. Use the current CLC Terms of Service for the App.
Grassroots Economics uses an Economic Commons frame so communities can define rights, responsibilities, instruments, service agreements, stewardship roles, and safeguards around shared systems. The legal design draws on the Nondominium recursive framework: members define instruments together, service providers maintain active infrastructure, and guardians hold protective governance rights such as arbitration and final veto.
- Glossary of terms.
Through this opt-in framework, individuals and associations can join a commons, issue or use instruments, and form member-to-member agreements while preserving shared integrity and accountability.
Core agreements and licenses¶
- Economic Commons Template (ECT): A general template for Economic Commons rights, responsibilities, roles, and instruments.
- Grassroots Economics Commons Agreement: A historical, platform-specific agreement preserved with its Sarafu source wording.
- Voucher Declaration: A historical, platform-specific template for an individual or group declaring a Community Asset Voucher.
- Intermember Service Agreement: A historical, platform-specific template for services between Economic Commons members and platform service providers.
- PATH License: The Public Awareness & Transparent Heritage license for Community Asset Vouchers.
- SPROUT Policy: License source text for Commitment Pools, including a notice about its platform-specific language.
- SPROUT Swap Loan Terms: Terms for swap loans when a pool uses signed withdrawal terms.
Policies¶
- Data Policy: Grassroots Economics data protection and privacy policy.
- Social Soil Privacy Policy: Privacy policy for the Social Soil farming and village-trading game.
- Child Protection Policy: Safeguarding policy for work involving children and young people.
For a single policy index, see Policies.