✳ Certification ✳
Dojo4 joined the B Corp movement in 2014, and was voted Best for the World in 2018, 2019, and 2021, and Best for Colorado in 2020. We open-source all of our relevant policies and procedures to help others B the best they can B ;-), whether they certify or not.
✳ Coops ✳
Is your company interested in shared ownership? We’ve documented our journey over a series of blog posts and open-sourced our membership documents to help you on the path to becoming a worker-owned cooperative.
✳ Code ✳
We can build a humane internet that emphasizes, rather than diminishes, meaningful connection and positive change. We are doing it, we can do it better, and we look forward to connecting with you about how to do it together.
Better Business Best Practices
Dojo4 has spent many years (and using ourselves as guinea pigs) to identify and refine best practices for businesses committed to social and environmental change. Visit Github for regularly updated versions of our policies, including:
GOVERNANCE & WORKERS: our coop documents, HR policies, subcontractor agreements, family-friendly workplace manifesto, and more.
CUSTOMERS: (in our case, clients) ethical marketing, scope of work, and general services agreements.
ENVIRONMENT: environmental policy
All these documents are all open-sourced and available to you to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon, even commercially. Please give credit whenever appropriate.
Resources for Creating Worker-Owned Coops
What does it mean to diversify ownership?
If you’re curious what it took for our company to go from being a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) to a Licensed Cooperative Association (LCA), we’ve documented our journey in this series of blog posts.
One thing we’ve learned is that ownership requires a lot of agreements—written primarily in legalese. With the blessing of our lovely and deeply cool lawyer, Jason, Dojo4 has open-sourcing our bylaws, membership agreements, and term sheets in the hopes that they help other small companies to coopify. As with our policy docs, all these documents are all open sourced and available to you to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon, even commercially. And, again, please give credit whenever appropriate.
LISTEN: Hear our CEO, Corey Kohn, talk about the Dojo4 path to the cooperative business model on the Her CEO Journey Podcast or read the blog and transcript.
Episode Highlights
➤ [05:39] Corey's Journey in Dojo4
➤ [08:02] Dojo4's Transition Into a Cooperative Model
➤ [11:08] Employees' Concerns About the Transition
➤ [15:14] Why Transition Anyway?
➤ [19:23] How the Cooperative Model Supports Future Growth
➤ [23:07] How the Cooperative Model Changed Dojo4
➤ [26:37] How Dojo4 Embraced the Shift to the Cooperative Model
➤ [29:51] Accounting and Financial Structure
➤ [36:10] Corey's Advice on Transitioning Into a Cooperative
Open Source Contributions
Dojo4 team members have been contributing code and resources to the open-source and Ruby communities for over a decade.
Visit https://github.com/dojo4 or our members’ individual pages: https://github.com/copiousfreetime
https://github.com/d11n
https://github.com/spikex
Developers
Blog
When bribed with special treats, we can sometimes get our developers to blog about what they’re learning/thinking/doing.
Or at least what they’re listening to while they work.
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