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Community Contribution starts as a 40 hour contribution week and consists of a combination of sharing your creative and artistic gifts and keeping the community running as a business success and amazing place to live. The 40 hour contribution week can be reduced to as few as 20 hours of community contribution by building and/or participating in successful community businesses or a consensus vote. This approach motivates people to build a retirement plan while supporting the community, culture of One Community, and Community Investors.
Community Contribution starts as a 40 hour contribution week and consists of a combination of sharing your creative and artistic gifts and keeping the community running as a business success and amazing place to live. The 40 hour contribution week can be reduced to as few as 20 hours of community contribution by building and/or participating in successful community businesses or a consensus vote. This approach motivates people to build a retirement plan while supporting the community, culture of One Community, and Community Investors.
"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more."
~ Anthony Robbins ~
By definition, community contribution is anything done in an effort to benefit the community and can be broken up into three categories of contribution: expressing natural gifts, community building and maintenance of One Community, and business building. Playing an instrument, teaching an artistic skill, cooking, story telling, teaching yoga or meditation, and watching after/playing with children are considered equally as important to the success and functioning of the community as cleaning, gardening, laundry, construction and landscaping, canning and food preserving, answering phones and attending to guests, accounting, etc. While the latter keep things running, the former are a priority and what really make One Community a special place to live and visit. The third category of business building is operated differently.
Expressing natural gifts and community building and maintenance of One Community both make up the culture of the community and support the happiness of our residents and visitors. This keeps the community 'alive' and thriving as a place of growth and expression and also gives One Community one aspect of its uniqueness in the recreational destination market. Community members invest time in both of these areas as needed and agreed upon by the group. Classes and recreational activities will always be present but ranch needs from week to week will vary as differing aspects of the community growth and function (building a new building, landscaping, food production, etc.) dictate.
Business building is a different part of community contribution and part of One Community's culture of entrepreneurship and a key aspect of One Community as a prototype for global economic change. This aspect of community contribution is also decided on by consensus but is evaluated a little differently because of it is contributing to an individual's business model first and the community business model second vs. the other two community contribution aspects that directly support the larger picture of One Community as a business in and of itself.
Both the individual businesses and One Community as a business are important so consensus is used to weigh in on how the hours of community contribution of Community Members should be divided. This is essential because all businesses built within One Community benefit the community financially and the individual success of our members are part of our unique draw and important to our growth culturally and spiritually... AND the most direct financial benefit to the community is the business of One Community Ranch itself. Because of this we make sure everything is running smoothly for One Community Ranch as a business and a culture (classes, recreation, etc.) and then modify our schedules to support each other and the community's entrepreneurial ventures.
But what if I don't like this setup? What if I want to retire or contribute less?
We recognize that while working in teams and constantly building new things and improving our living environment balanced with playing music, teaching classes, playing with kids, etc. may appeal to many it will not appeal to all and some of these people may still want to be a part of One Community. The option to 'retire' and or work less in One Community must also exist so we created work incentives to allow people to get to a point where their community contribution hours are only invested in businesses they create or expressing their gifts.
These work incentives are important because we believe everyone has marketable talent, but most people don't know how to market it, and we want to encourage and reward motivated and entrepreneurial minds to build businesses with these people. The more a person's businesses are succeeding and contributing financially to the community, the less community contribution they are expected to provide. A person could run one hugely successful business or be a part of several smaller and moderately successful businesses and get to the same place of retirement.
This incentive of reduced community contribution hours and agreeing as a group to contribute community contribution hours to individual business models is just another aspect of One Community that is unique and part of the abundance culture we share with the world and the reason we say we offer unparalleled opportunity (teamwork, talent diversity, and available labor pool for entrepreneurial endeavors) without necessity (option to just contribute 40 hours to the community and culture that is One Community).
