- materials, tools, and hosted space to make things together
- skill-building (mending, making, reuse systems)
- social connection + local collaboration
2. Optional economic upside
- opportunities to contribute to production that may generate revenue
- potential pathways to paid roles, revenue share, or independent selling (as things develop)
- visibility into how materials move from intake → product → sale
- some activities may support product development and sales
- that revenue helps sustain the infrastructure (materials, tools, events, coordination)
- ability to test and refine a reuse-based, community-scale supply model
- I retain ownership & direction of the business
4. Guardrails
- participation is always voluntary
- not all activities are tied to revenue
- I will clearly signal when something connects to the economic side
- goal = non-extractive, shared-value system