Case Studies
See how organizations around the world use Loomio to make better decisions together.
Restoring millions of hectares through better decisions
150 people across three continents, restoring degraded land—and the decisions couldn't wait for the next meeting.
- Clear record of key decisions
- Structured input from distributed teams
- Multi-stage approvals across time zones
- Decisions separated from communication noise
A model to distribute mutual aid
An experimental reparations-based fund redistributed over $20,000 to members using cooperative decision-making on Loomio.
- Cooperative fund redistribution
- Democratic proposal voting
- Transparent decision archive
- Member-driven governance
Conservation governance at a global scale
240 participants from 70 countries, speaking dozens of languages, need to reach consensus — and they've never once had to fall back to a vote.
- General Assembly across 70 countries
- Inclusion across all time zones
- Async consensus around live meetings
- Automatic multilingual translation
A refugee buddy project grows across three boroughs
A former refugee who once fled Chile is now pairing newly arriving families with local buddies — and a growing network of volunteers needs to stay coordinated in an increasingly hostile political climate.
- Coordinated buddy-family communication
- Council visibility into community needs
- Daily operational decisions without meetings
- Scaled to three boroughs
How a zero waste movement coordinates 500 volunteers nationwide
500 active volunteers scattered across France, constant turnover, and over 2,000 events to coordinate — the movement can't afford to lose its institutional memory.
- Coordinated campaigns across local groups
- New volunteers catch up fast
- Structured info for 2,000+ events
- Consistent messaging despite turnover
Sixty people draft a cooperative charter for the earth
Sixty people scattered across the United States spent ten months turning passionate disagreements into a 40-page cooperative charter for protecting the earth.
- Collaborative charter drafted over months
- Subgroups for specialist teams
- Clear communication replacing chaos
- Distributed members aligned continuously
Measuring every country's human rights performance
How do you measure something as vast as a country's human rights performance — and get diverse experts worldwide to agree on the method?
- Global human rights expert consultation
- Group decisions beyond email limits
- Global team updated centrally
- Strategic polling on key decisions
A community lender powers grassroots renewable energy
A small lending society in Cornwall funds grassroots renewable energy projects — but reviewing each loan used to eat up entire meetings.
- Online loan assessment saves hours
- Transparent multi-stage involvement
- Assessment records for easy audit
- Timely community energy funding
An investment club pools money for local co-ops
Twenty people pool their money every month to invest in local co-ops — but going around the circle to allocate funds used to take an hour.
- Democratic fund allocation via dot voting
- Equal participation despite distance
- Faster decisions than in-person rounds
- Accessible for new investors
200 charities coordinate without a building or budget
When Bath lost its charity support agency, a handful of volunteers built one from scratch — no building, no budget, no government backing.
- Volunteers never miss key decisions
- Majority voice surfaced via polls
- Structured threads replace email chains
- Conversation summaries save reading time
Citizens organize across a country in crisis
In the middle of a political crisis, a distributed network of Venezuelan citizens needed new tools to organize — fast, safely, and from wherever they were.
- Distributed citizen network coordination
- Tools for activism and participation
- Decisions via polls and checks
- Effective distributed communication
A climate action group prototypes ideas between meetings
A climate action group in a small New Zealand town couldn't wait a month between meetings to act on new ideas — so they started prototyping between sessions.
- Rapid prototyping between meetings
- Consensus without in-person meetings
- Every voice heard, meeting-free
- Faster idea-to-action cycle
Activist group keeps decisions moving between fortnightly meetings
A citizen activism group stopped losing decisions to email threads and started resolving them between meetings with clear deadlines and modifiable proposals.
- Between-meeting decisions email can't handle
- Clear deadlines for input
- Agenda items moved off meetings
- Proposals refined before final votes
Digital nomad co-op makes decisions across time zones
Five constantly travelling social media consultants found a way to make real decisions together without ever being in the same room.
- Async decisions across a nomadic team
- Thoughtful choices with objective distance
- Routine decisions without meetings
- Richer meetings via pre-discussion
When Hungarian students organized, the government backed down
When Hungary's government proposed education cuts, student activists didn't just protest — they translated Loomio into Hungarian and organized a nationwide democratic movement that forced the government to back down.
- Nationwide university deliberation
- Student-teacher-academic coordination
- Transparent decisions withstanding media scrutiny
- Reversed government education cuts
Democracy coalition launches 461 citizen groups across a nation
A coalition of direct democracy groups launched hundreds of local decision-making groups covering every region of Greece, turning online discussion into pressure for real political change.
- Nationwide citizen political participation
- Accessible to non-technical citizens
- Transparent voting with participation tracking
- Collective pressure on local officials
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