New Member Application – Data Commons Cooperative

Name

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Membership Type(Required)

Are you applying as an individual or as an organization?

Name(Required)

First Last

Individual Email(Required)

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Individual Phone

Organization Name(Required)

Address(Required)

Street Address Address Line 2 City State / Province / Region ZIP / Postal Code Country

Organization Website(Required)

Is your organization a co-op?(Required)

Do you have a .coop domain?(Required)

Administrative Liaison Name(Required)

First Last

Administrative Liaison Email(Required)

Administrative Liaison Phone(Required)

Other Contacts

If additional people in your organization fulfill the role of billing or data liaisons, please indicate this and enter their information. If one or both are not filled in, we’ll communicate with the administrative contact.

Billing LIaison Name

First Last

Billing Liasion Email

Billing Liaison Phone

Data Liaison Name

First Last

Data Liaison Email

Data Liaison Phone

Who are your members (multiple choices are accepted)(Required)

Workers

Producers

Consumers

Businesses/Organizations

Investors

Nonprofit/NCOs

Individuals

Other (please add in text box below)

Undetermined/None

Other types of members

The Data Commons supports its members in gathering, maintaining, and sharing data related to the cooperative and solidarity economy. (See https://solidarityeconomy.us/definition/ for a definition of solidarity economy.

Are you interested in using data within the Data Commons(Required)

Are you interested in sharing data with the Data Commons?(Required)

Please describe your interest in wanting to become a DCC member(Required)

Governance and Fees

The Board of Directors is elected by the co-op’s members. Serving on the board is a good way to make sure the voice of a community is heard clearly. Please let us know if you or someone from your organization is…(Required)

Membership dues are calculated as a percentage of a year’s expense budget. What counts as an expense budget, you ask? We leave that up to your judgment. Some large organizations have chosen to limit this number to the department or grant relevant to Data Commons Co-op activities.

The sliding-scale dues formula is as follows:

Start with your expense budget for the last year.
Calculate 0.1% of this number for your projected dues.
If this is less than US$100, either apply the US$100 minimum or request a waiver.

Your first year’s annual dues includes the purchase of one membership share at a book value of US$1 and each year’s dues count as equity investment.

Your application is reviewed without consideration of dues, and we look for funds as needed. Other members have chipped in extra to fund low/no-budget grassroots organizations.

Miniumum dues amount per year

Please enter the dues amount that you calculated.

Please enter a number greater than or equal to 100.

I/we are short on funding and request a waiver this year

Pitch in for others

I/we are willing to pay more than the minimum dues to help out organizations that are not so well funded.

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Data Commons Cooperative Membership Application

Governance and Fees