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Start a care cooperative in your community.

Make a one-page plan for a first meeting in your city. Print it or share it. It stays on your phone.

Build your node sheet See the nine pieces of care

Caring for someone now? Start at co-op.care, the first one, in Boulder, Colorado.

Vimty in 15 seconds

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  1. Aging care runs on people nobody counts. Family and paid caregivers hold it together.
  2. In 1930, 1 in 10 farms had power. By 1953, 9 in 10. Co-ops wired what the market would not.
  3. The same model, for care. Caregivers as worker-owners of their own cooperative.
  4. Boulder is Node One. It is not yet a national grid. It is an invitation.
  5. Vimty. An open protocol for community-owned care. vimty.com

Caring for someone now? Start at co-op.care. Want a node in your community? Put your city on the map.

How it works

  1. Build the sheet. Pick your city and how many caregivers you have in mind. The page shows the co-op law where you live (US LCA, Netherlands Coöperatie U.A., Germany eG, UK Co-operative Society, Quebec co-op, Japan Workers' Co-operative Act, Australia Co-operatives National Law), a five-step readiness checklist and a 60-minute first-meeting agenda. It is kept on your device.
  2. Print it or share it. Print one page for a kitchen-table meeting, or copy a link. The sheet rides after the #, which browsers never send to a server.
  3. Use what works today. Bank neighbor hours on co-op.care/hours, run a family assessment on co-op.care/assess, and write care wishes on caregoals.com.
  4. Put your city on the map, if you want. A short form on /start sends your email, city, country and caregiver count. It is the only thing here that sends what you type.

Where it stands: co-op.care, a filed Colorado cooperative in Boulder, is the first node. There is no national network yet. The nine pieces page marks which parts run today and which are designed.