Start a care cooperative in your community.

Name: Vimty in 15 seconds
Uploaded: 2026-09-29
Duration: 15 s
Description: Vimty in 15 seconds: aging care runs on people nobody counts; in 1930 about one in ten US farms had electricity, and by 1953 more than nine in ten did, with cooperatives wiring what the market would not; the same model applied to care, with caregivers as worker-owners; Boulder is Node One and not yet a national grid.

Build a one-page readiness and first-meeting sheet for your city on your phone, then print it or share the link. The sheet stays on your device.

Build your node sheet See the nine pieces of care

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

Vimty in 15 seconds

Text version:

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

Build the sheet. Choose your city or country and how many caregivers you have in mind. The page maps the cooperative legal form for your jurisdiction (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.
Print it or share it. Print a one-page handout for a kitchen-table meeting, or copy a link that carries the sheet after the #, which browsers do not send to a server.
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.
Put your city on the map, if you want. A short form on /start sends your email, city, country and caregiver count. That is the only thing on this site that sends what you type.

Where it stands: co-op.care is a filed Colorado limited cooperative association in Boulder and the first node. It is not yet a national network. The nine pieces page marks which parts run today and which are designed.