Learning about the SELC and finding Janelle’s book, Practicing Law in the Sharing Economy, reassured me that my interest in going to law school to support social enterprise and community-based/scaled/owned economies made sense.


At my law school, I founded a Resilient Communities Law Society, which focused on exploring SELC’s work. I graduated in May and will be a B Corps Fellow next year. But I hope the Resilient Communities Law Society gains momentum at my alma mater and I look forward to developing a career inspired by SELC’s principles and precedent.

I look forward to collaborating with SELC to find and implement real-world solutions that will empower new, young and small-scale family farmers to make a living by growing food in more sustainable ways.

Keep up the great and important work SELC!

As a partner of Shareable, they’ve helped me personally and us as an organization in too many ways to count. We love SELC for both who they are and what they do. They’re amazing.

SELC is awesome in so many ways. SELC helps navigate the legal waters that many grassroots orgs need to comfortably innovate to solve the economic, environmental problems we’re have as a society. They give ‘people power’ a stronger voice, hand and heart in re-creating a more just economy on this beautiful planet. And for people just hearing about the sharing economy, they offer a doorway where they can learn about co-operatives, local currencies among other tools, so they get to join the party too!

SELC gives me hope when our broken legal systems, political systems and economic systems make the future look bleak. There is a possible future of freedom, abundance and empowerment for all. The fact that the lawyers at SELC are helping us get there makes me proud to be a lawyer again.

I appreciate SELC’s creativity in addressing how to improve our economies and our communities. Keep up the good work, friends!

SELC is amazing! They have been such an great support in keeping seed sharing legal. They are a brilliant and inspiring group of people doing so much incredible work in the world.

SELC is an incredible resource! There are a bunch of critical legal issues unique to community currencies — and that makes SELC’s expertise in this sector all the more valuable. Heartfelt thanks to the whole SELC team for providing such helpful advice!

Thank you so much for your just-in-time advice and questions that helped us think through the non-profit incorporation process and governance models for supporting our decentralized learning community. It is so rare and fortunate to find skilled experts to provide legal advice who already understand the intricacies of movement building, grassroots organizations, and building a commons. We are so appreciative that you make this vital service available to us and to the new economy movement in general.

We love SELC. SELC has been very informative and helpful while we grow our small micro business with limited funds. We’ve never owned a business before and with SELC’s workshops and online information all our legal questions are answered which in turn helps to guide and focus our business plan in the right direction.

I am thankful to be a part of your journey. I hope that you find or develop the solutions you are seeking.


Onward and upward my friend :)

Sure!

I am so thankful for SELC’s help in cooperatizing everything! You should be thankful too! Donate what you can.


Love,

Tia

This is for wall the important work that SELC does supporting initiatives like Cowrie Village!

Hey SELC client, maybe we’ll see each other at a Legal Cafe one of these days. If so, you’ll know me because I’ll have a SeniorityX t-shirt on! Check us out at http://seniorityx.com

Unlocking private land for public use!

Yay for Sharing!

SELC is an amazing organization and they are really setting the trend on how to solve problems within the community. Our communities need more organizations to offer solutions in the same manner that SELC is offering. Great job to the whole staff at SELC.

Dear Future Client,

Good luck in your endeavor to make this world a more sharing and resilient place to live!

VillageLab celebrates SELC! We look forward to working with you!

This is what we are about:

We plant seeds that one day will grow.

We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.

We lay foundations that will need further development.

We provide yeast that produces effects beyond our capabilities.


We cannot do everything

and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.

This enables us to do something,

and to do it very well.

It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way,

an opportunity for God’s grace to enter and do the rest.


We may never see the end results,

but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.

We are workers, not master builders,

ministers, not messiahs.

We are prophets of a future not our own.

-Oscar Romero

The Arroyo S.E.C.O. Network of Time Banks

Permaculture Credit Union honors your work and appreciates that your micro-credit loan program uses the PCU as your financial institutions we are making history

My contribution was small, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have an impact. Enjoy the legal services your receiving and feel free to pay it forward for the next person to receive legal advise.

Payin’-it-forward spreads the love far and wide! Thanks SELC for all the essential work that you do!

Check check – here comes the pay-it-forward revolution!