Approve the membership of Kin Cooperative
Hi all,
Kin Coop joined workers.coop recently and would like to become part of CoTech.
A bit about Kin Coop:
"Communities have pooled money together for thousands of years. Now you can do it online. Kin.coop is a not-for-profit platform and network of financial mutual aid groups. Build wealth, build community. Pool money with the people you trust. Join Kin.
We allow members to set up as many mutual aid groups as they like, we act as a fiscal host to those groups, allowing them to contribute funds to those groups and request withdrawals when they need."
They are a multi-stakeholder cooperative with influence split 50/50 between worker members and platform user members. You can view their rules in the attached PDF.
New applications to join CoTech are a member vote as per the constitution so I’ll start a vote on this thread.
Chris Lowis (Go Free Range) Thu 24 Jul 2025 4:06PM
Ben Philp Tue 29 Jul 2025 2:54PM
it is a good point as workers dont have control on 50/50, then whats next 30/70, 20/80, 5/95 interesting one for workers.coop. otherwise all sounds good
Chris Lowis (Go Free Range) Tue 5 Aug 2025 8:12AM
We just passed the proposal to clarify that members of workers.coop are eligable to become members of CoTech: https://www.loomio.com/d/Z2mQAG3g/clarify-constitution-to-make-clear-that-membership-of-cotech-requires-membership-of-workers-coop, so I think that clears the path for this proposal.
Chris Croome (Webarchitects Co-operative) · Thu 24 Jul 2025 11:25AM
@chrislowis would you like to suggest a suitable wording and create a poll?