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Grassroots Economics

@grassecon

Empowerment through Community Inclusion Currencies

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Seeing our first 200 transactions today on Celo.eth/acc šŸ¦‡ 🌳 as a L2! & seeing our 1st report today from a group of 27 people using sarafu.network to account for and connect their mutual-aid efforts to bring back a sacred forest. sarafu.network/reports/301 Thanks to the GrE and Celo!

Seeing our first 200 transactions today on <a href="/Celo/">Celo.eth/acc šŸ¦‡ 🌳</a> as a L2!
&amp; seeing our 1st report today from a group of 27 people using sarafu.network to account for and connect their mutual-aid efforts to bring back a sacred forest. 
sarafu.network/reports/301
Thanks to the GrE and Celo!
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12/ The tangible impact of these values is in full effect across 150+ countries w/ projects like Gainforest.Earth, @GrassEcon, and Silvi🤳🌳 leading in ReFi, as well as Mento (fx/acc) @EthCC’ local stablecoins bringing crypto payments to everyone. Now, these projects live on Ethereum

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šŸ’„ETH staking is now a force for economic justice. Through Lido Impact Staking, you can direct staking rewards to Grassroots Economics, supporting community currencies that empower underserved economies. Stake ETH → Grow local economies. Start here: grassroots.impactstake.com

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Stake your CELO & ETH on Grassroots Economics! $CELO - docs.grassecon.org/cyber/staking-… & $ETH - grassroots.impactstake.com Grow the ecosystem!

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the disconnect between CT & grassroots adoption of crypto is astonishing! weā€˜re so focused on institutions buying our bags & tokenizing Wall Street, but places like Africa is where real impact will be made and almost nobody is talking about it! shame! thank you Yoseph Ayele,

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"We don't need to look far for innovative systems... our grandparents practiced them. We just need to observe, participate, and carry them forward." Damaris Njambi Njoroge

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60 people. 45 minutes. 1 chicken house. On April 5th, Magma Cohort 3 joined Upendo Group in Kilifi to build more than a structure, they built a community. Commitment pooling in action: song, sweat, vouchers, and joy. Ancestral wisdom, alive and well. šŸ› ļøšŸŒ @grassecon #Mweria

60 people. 45 minutes. 1 chicken house.
On April 5th, Magma Cohort 3 joined Upendo Group in Kilifi to build more than a structure, they built a community.
Commitment pooling in action: song, sweat, vouchers, and joy.
Ancestral wisdom, alive and well. šŸ› ļøšŸŒ @grassecon #Mweria
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I’m doing an incredible seminar at Yale Architecture led by Keller Easterling on the spatial practice of southern cooperatives. Just hosted Kali Akuno from Cooperation Jackson – a full-circle moment after working with them & Grassroots Economics 🧵 Notes on why CJ’s spatial strategy matters: 1/

I’m doing an incredible seminar at <a href="/YaleArch/">Yale Architecture</a> led by Keller Easterling on the spatial practice of southern cooperatives. 

Just hosted <a href="/Kali_Akuno/">Kali Akuno</a> from <a href="/CooperationJXN/">Cooperation Jackson</a> – a full-circle moment after working with them &amp; <a href="/grassEcon/">Grassroots Economics</a>

🧵 Notes on why CJ’s spatial strategy matters: 
1/
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šŸŽ“ $50 can change a life. In the Sarafu Network Grassroots Economics , just $1,000 sent with the help of Normie brought 39 African students back to school. Why were they out? Because they owed $50 to $100 in unpaid fees. That’s it. Normie enabled donors to contribute in fiat using

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šŸŒ€ Freeing Lending from Cash Before Banks, Credit Unions and Village Savings and Loan Associations there were Rotating Labor Associations. You didn’t borrow cash. You borrowed people’s time. Their hands. Their help. You repaid with the same. Then came the cash box. —saving

šŸŒ€ Freeing Lending from Cash
Before Banks, Credit Unions and Village Savings and Loan Associations there were Rotating Labor Associations.
 You didn’t borrow cash.
 You borrowed people’s time. Their hands. Their help.
 You repaid with the same.

Then came the cash box.
 —saving
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Trust is a Muscle. Community is a Rhythm. šŸ«€šŸ’«šŸŒ The heart is not just a pump—it’s a rhythm. So is mutual aid. So is Commitment Pooling. When we care for each other—offering what we can, receiving what we need—we restore a pulse. A rhythm of giving and receiving. 🌱 We seed

Trust is a Muscle. Community is a Rhythm. šŸ«€šŸ’«šŸŒ

The heart is not just a pump—it’s a rhythm.
 So is mutual aid. So is Commitment Pooling.

When we care for each other—offering what we can,
 receiving what we need—we restore a pulse.
 A rhythm of giving and receiving.

🌱 We seed
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🐳We're honored to just find out that our small non-profit foundation in Kenya is @celo's #1 Voting Delegate. This means a lot as we are also its #2 Validator! (and each of our 5 validation nodes as well gets votes). What should @grassecon vote on or propose? Let us know!?

🐳We're honored to just find out that our small non-profit foundation in Kenya is @celo's #1 Voting Delegate. This means a lot as we are also its #2 Validator! (and each of our 5 validation nodes as well gets votes).

What should @grassecon vote on or propose?
Let us know!?
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Looking for legal due diligence ona tax law and mutual aid. Here is what I understand: willruddick.substack.com/p/mutual-aid-a… Stephanie Rearick Michel Bauwens Why Mutual Aid is Rightfully Not Taxed? -It’s rooted in voluntary care and community trust, not contracts. -Value flows as recognition,

Looking for legal due diligence ona tax law and mutual aid.
Here is what I understand: willruddick.substack.com/p/mutual-aid-a… <a href="/stephanierearic/">Stephanie Rearick</a> <a href="/mbauwens/">Michel Bauwens</a> 

Why Mutual Aid is Rightfully Not Taxed?

-It’s rooted in voluntary care and community trust, not contracts.

-Value flows as recognition,
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These systems aren’t being invented. They’re being revealed. Commitment Pooling protocols don’t create the metabolism, they make it visible. Trust, reciprocity, commitment cycles, these have been flowing in every community since before language.

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The LUSOBE is an exciting project is led by Lukenya University’s School of Business and Economics (LUSOBE) Resilient Community Waqfs and Grassroots Economics - excited to see what this partnership hails!

The LUSOBE is an exciting project is led by Lukenya University’s School of Business and Economics (LUSOBE) <a href="/RezCommWaqfs/">Resilient Community Waqfs</a> and <a href="/grassEcon/">Grassroots Economics</a>  - excited to see what this partnership hails!
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Most of what we call ā€œthe economyā€ is just a series of coordinated promises. Lets co-ordinate grassroots.impactstake.com