Common Good

ensuring everyone has healthy food, a home, healthcare, satisfying work, and a livable world. Our mission is to design and establish the framework for that new economy by integrating a fast-growing mutual credit system with traditional bank accounts, to shift power from big business and big government back to communities, where we know and care mor... e. This hybrid system gives todays participants the experience of local economic sovereignty central to our vision of a Common Good Economy. To that end, we launched Common Good in Greenfield, Massachusetts, in 2013. The Common Good system is: Toolkit. A democratic economics toolkit for communities and organizers. Economic system. A card-based payment and accounting system with software for financial analysis and credit that circulates so it acts like money. Decision system. A democratic system for deciding as a community how of the Community Fund to use and what to fund with it. We provide the tools you need for sound decisions, but each participating community is autonomous the decisions are up to you. As an organization and as a movement we value: Love, happiness, fulfillment, and fun. We aim to create a world where everyone is guaranteed a living, so they can contribute to their community and to the world in whatever way they choose, following their passion and sense of calling. We support our staff and volunteers in doing work for Common Good Finance that brings them joy. Economic justice. We aim to create a world where everyone has access to the resources they need, to live a happy and productive life. Meanwhile, we pay our staff a living wage and avoid compensating anyone excessively. Democracy / self-determination. We welcome input from anyone and actively seek input from a wide range of stakeholders because everyone has a part of the truth. Community. We gather people together locally, to develop a sense of working together and being part of something important. Security. We take extraordinary measures to ensure that no one will suffer from identity theft ...Read More