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Slide The Circles Coop e.G. was established as a registered cooperative in October 2020 in Berlin. The Coop was created by the people who were active both in the programming part of the Circles pluriverse and in the organizing of the Berlin basic income pilot. WE ARE A PART
OF THE CIRCLES
Most of them worked at the Basic Income Lab Gmbh until that time and decided to create a cooperative legal entity to have more democratic decision- making and work in an approachable, open organisational form. The Circles Coop works in a strong alliance with the Bitspossessed Collective, which constituted itself after the Circles protocol was launched. They build, maintain and take care of the Circles technology.

PLURIVERSE

Slide The first one is to provide empowerment and backup support to all groups around the world who use Circles or would like to get organized with this technology. We support new and smaller hubs with knowledge, skill sharing, resources and tools with the aim of helping new community hubs in engaging local businesses to join the network and give life to a more resilient and democratic economy. If you would like to organize a basic income pilot in your area using Circles, please contact us at hello@joincircles.net.

Slide Our second goal is to build up a flagship pilot in Berlin, where we can gain first- hand experience about the Circles system, improve it and prove that a community- based basic income is not just a wonderful idea, but can work in practice to provide people with an unconditional basic income.

Slide By establishing a cooperative we wanted to create a democratic forum for the Circles core team of workers and engage them in the decision making process of the organization..

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Slide Blanka
She is the Chief Executive Witch. Hungarian, founded a green party and left it before it entered the Parliament. Was campaign and communication manager, worked for Greenpeace, organised house occupation with homeless people. Otherwise active in feminist, queer issues. Introverted. Likes to write. Mostly nice. Aron
She is the Chief Executive Witch. Hungarian, founded a green party and left it before it entered the Parliament. Was campaign and communication manager, worked for Greenpeace, organised house occupation with homeless people. Otherwise active in feminist, queer issues. Introverted. Likes to write. Mostly nice. English, German, Spanish, Turkish, Catalan, Italian, Swedish, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Hindi, Kannada, Urdu, Latin, Hungarian and Irony.
Programming languages: Bash, C++, Go, Java, Javascript, Matlab, PHP, Prolog, Python, R, Ruby, Scala, Scheme, Solidity and Rust
OUR TEAM SPEAKS THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGES
 THE CORE TEAM -> TOGGLE VERSION Slide Blanka
She is the Chief Executive Witch. Hungarian, founded a green party and left it before it entered the Parliament. Was campaign and communication manager, worked for Greenpeace, organised house occupation with homeless people. Otherwise active in feminist, queer issues. Introverted. Likes to write. Mostly nice. Aron
She is the Chief Executive Witch. Hungarian, founded a green party and left it before it entered the Parliament. Was campaign and communication manager, worked for Greenpeace, organised house occupation with homeless people. Otherwise active in feminist, queer issues. Introverted. Likes to write. Mostly nice. English, German, Spanish, Turkish, Catalan, Italian, Swedish, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Hindi, Kannada, Urdu, Latin, Hungarian and Irony.
Programming languages: Bash, C++, Go, Java, Javascript, Matlab, PHP, Prolog, Python, R, Ruby, Scala, Scheme, Solidity and Rust
OUR TEAM SPEAKS THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGES
 THE CORE TEAM -> TOGGLE VERSION

Slide DECISION MAKING BODIES DECISION
MAKING
SCOPE Meetings frequency
Yearly once-twice.

Decision making scope
Decides on the General Rules of Procedure (AGO)
Elect Executive Board members.

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Vote out Board members at any
time with two thirds majority 2.
Terminating the cooperative 3.
Approving investor members 4.
Reports for the
closed year 5.
Approving
the Annual 6.
Approve donor policy and FR guidelines

Slide EXECUTIVE
BOARD Meetings frequency
Biweekly

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is responsible for the preparation of the Annual Reports for the General Assembly & tax authorities 3.
can decide
on budget items under 1000 euros
per month 2.
can sign off important texts representing the Circles project like flyers, FAQ-s in the name of Circles 1.
has the authority
to allow new memberships
to the Coop as well as excluding people
from it. The board created the position of the Head of Operations and the Community and Research Coordinator, and defined the responsibilities for each role.
The Core Team (see below) elects the Head of Operations (from the Board).
Decision making powers
Each member of the Board alone can sign and make declarations with legally binding effects for the Cooperative.

Slide 4. decides on staffing and contracting in organizational service areas (legal, accounting, HR) – co-decision with Board engages in decision-making preparations for the Core Team (preparing the bi-weekly work meetings, agenda items, etc) 3. 2. approves new employees and contractors for Working Groups 1. signs off work contracts, job descriptions decides on staffing and contracting in organizational service areas (legal, accounting, HR) – co-decision with other board members
 HEAD OF
OPERATIONS COMMUNITY NETWORKS AND RESEARCH COORDINA-TOR (CNRC)
The position of CNRC is created by the AGO. The CNRC is elected by the Core Team. The CNRC has the very same legal rights as the other Board member(s), but the tasks assigned to each Board member are different. The CNRC functions as social relations outreach of the coop. Their role is embedded in the Coop, and complements the head of operations in making sure the work flow is enacted and the goals of the coop reached based on the values of the coop. The CNRC is reachable, accessible, receives feedback, engaged in a constant dialogue, receptive and responsive.
 The CNRC decides on strategic alliances and forms of collaboration the coop engages in with other entities. Takes tactical decisions regarding the local and international organization of the Circles ecosystem. The Circles ecosystem: This involves creating events, assemblies and economic rings; weaving networks between different stakeholders and doing communications work with other hubs in the ecosystem regarding practical implementation details of Circles. This role also involves coordination of the research regarding the Circles ecosystem, both qualitative and quantitative. DECISION MAKING SCOPE

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Slide THE CORE TEAM
IS A COMMUNITY CORE TEAM The body of the Core Team is created by the AGO. The core team is a community governing the Coop’s operational tasks.
The core team meets bi-weekly and it serves as a place for all the responsible positions in the Circles project to communicate with each other, make decisions and prioritize the work.
The core team meeting serves as an alignment platform for issues where synchronizing the work is necessary. Attending this meeting is necessary for people in order to do their job. Nobody gets paid for participating in the meeting per se as it is part of their job. Regular attendance is core, although it is not obligatory to participate actively in every single decision making of the Core Team as long as the person is otherwise active and involved in their respective work tasks.

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Core team meetings
are there to make
sure people have the
possibility of being
heard and express
themselves.

Core team meetings
are there to make
sure people have the
possibility of being
heard and express
themselves.

Slide The Core Team is the key foundational support group for the work of the Head of Operations and the Community and Research Coordinator, and is the very tool to flatten the organizational structure.

Slide THE CORE TEAM HAS TWO PURPOSES The first one is to synthesize the valuable knowledge of the people doing the reproductive tasks that make Circles possible, such as social media, design, community and business development, accounting and administration. This function serves as a cooperative consulting body in project matters.

The second one is to establish a decision making body in operational and organizational matters for the Core team members.

Slide DECISION MAKING SCOPE
  • creates strategic alliances with other groups

  • continuously works on a roadmap (one year plans, reviewed three times a year)

  • engages in strategy and tactics (several years plans)

  • writes and updates the mission statement

  • approves the main numbers of budget (Work Group level)

  • proposes a salary structure

  • appoints the Head of Operations from one of the Board Members

  • co-designs Circles identity-related things: Logo, domain names, image

  • approves individual donors and investors over the threshold

Slide CIRCLES NEEDS YOU The Circles Coop eG is founded by the team who have been most busy during the last years working on implementing varying features that comprise the Circles ecosystem.

We are dedicated to continually improving Circles; with motivations to provide access to a community-based basic income for many, around the entire globe.
Therefore this huge and long work needs your support. We received 108.000 Euro investment from Martin Köppelmann.

We received 100.000 Euro investment from Albert Wenger.

We received a 10.000 USD fund from the Mustarseed Trust.

Current major donors: Martin Köppelmann, Albert Wegner (Stiftung Grundeinkommen).

In cryptocurrencies we received donations around the value of 50.000 USD, mainly through gitcoin.co grants.

We have around 100 small donors, who support our work on average with 15 USD in a month.

The Circles Coop has two full time and two part time employees, and we work with several freelancers. Our monthly running costs are about 35-40k euros. We will give 50% of our donations above a monthly 50k euros to the smaller Circles hubs, who we find promising in establishing Circles in their area.
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Slide Your donation is crucial! We also have non-profit status via Open Collective
And you can support our work on GitCoin Circles coop is a member of Circles pluriverse which was launched in October 2020 by six strong-willed dreamers.
Now, we are twelve strong-willed dreamers working on strengthening our system. We are working towards creating sustainable and stable communities that will benefit from our universal basic income system worldwide.
That’s why we need your support.
We are looking for committed, regular donors who support bringing Circles to a fully thriving life.

Slide CONTACT US We will be happy to hear from you whether you have
an inquiry, a question, feedback, or a love letter to share!
Thank you!

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