CO-CREATING AN INCLUSIVE COALITION OF GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS WORKING FOR GOOD

The Shared Purpose project is a framework for building coalitions among organizations and individuals sharing similar purposes. The objective is to overcome fragmentation and misunderstanding while enabling collaboration and teamwork.

• We have developed a large list of overlapping and related purposes, which have been offered by participating organizations as a statement of their mission and objectives.
• Organizations are invited to define themselves in terms of purposes listed by other organizations. This creates an "instant electronic coalition" connecting organizations sharing the same purpose.
• Unaffiliated individual members can also select purposes they support or share, which supports organizations selecting these purposes.
• For visual simplicity, the project is organized in terms of the "Wheel of Co-Creation", which describes society as a "whole system" in terms of 12 major sectors. Organizations and purposes are categorized by their appropriate sectors within the wheel. Organizations and purposes can be in more than one sector.
• Within the range of our themes and objectives, there can be any number of coalitions that pull groups and organizations together, for any reasons they find interesting. Our approach makes it a simple thing to build "coalitions of coalitions" with little more than a check-box and a click.