{"id":2467,"date":"2014-01-30T21:37:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T05:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/?page_id=2467"},"modified":"2014-02-04T12:25:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T20:25:57","slug":"guild-structure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/how-will-it-work\/guild-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Guild Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Four Guild Boards will establish an initial research, development and demonstration (RD&amp;D) framework<\/strong>\u00a0in each of the four quadrants of sustainability shown here.\u00a0 These are boards of elders, experts, practitioners and visionaries, including community and youth representatives with a clear sense of\u00a0 the next leading-edge research needed for best practices in their area. \u00a0They include representatives from the communities we serve as well as experts in the fields they represent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From these Guild Boards two primary services flow to communities. \u00a0First an Innovations Consultant Team<\/strong>\u00a0provides incubation services including consulting, strategic planning and mentoring. \u00a0These services are available to communities for general community development and to ensure success of the\u00a0<strong>second major service of the Guilds \u00a0\u2013\u00a0grants and resource support \u2013 both monetary and non-monetary \u2013 \u00a0for specific RD&amp;D projects.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Solicitations for these RD&amp;D grants flow in two ways.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Targeted Solicitations<\/strong>\u00a0flow from the Guild Boards to communities for specific RD&amp;D projects the Board sees as essential.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Open Solicitations<\/strong>\u00a0tap into the wisdom and cutting edge work already being done in the network and flow from the ecovillages and other sustainability projects to the Guild Boards.\u00a0 These open solicitations are reviewed and supported in the context of the RD&amp;D framework that each Guild area has established &#8211; thereby providing the sustainable communities movement with central coordination while bringing forth the collective wisdom of the whole.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Existing best practices &#8211; as well as those being generated within the RD&amp;D program &#8211; will \u00a0be\u00a0made widely available to researchers and developing communities<\/strong>\u00a0in the form of a guild area Wiki using the next generation in information management software.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A strong emphasis is being placed on developing &amp; popularizing a set of broadly applicable quality and performance indicators &amp; aspirational standards<\/strong>\u00a0for whole-system community well-being \u2013 building on the work already done by the Global Ecovillage Network\u2019s Community Assessment Tool and utilizing the Ecological Footprint, carbon mitigation standards and other ecological, social, political and economic indicators.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A central Coordinating Board &#8211; drawing on the wisdoms of dynamic governance and collective intelligence &#8211; provides overall administration<\/strong>, \u00a0public outreach and relations, helps the Guild Boards set priorities, and drives fundraising and organizational development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/InnovationLabServices4.1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2235 aligncenter\" alt=\"InnovationLabServices4.1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/InnovationLabServices4.1.jpg\" width=\"599\" height=\"598\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Guild Boards will establish an initial research, development and demonstration (RD&amp;D) framework\u00a0in each of the four quadrants of sustainability shown here.\u00a0 These are boards of elders, experts, practitioners and visionaries, including community and youth representatives with a clear sense of\u00a0 the next leading-edge research needed for best practices in their area. \u00a0They include representatives&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":754,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2467\/revisions\/2531"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}