A better franchise in education?
Hello, I am closely involved with a start-up that wants to be structured as a somewhat hierarchical endeavor, with local groups receiving support from The Center. It is in the field of education. Which means - a franchise. Like Kumon... eh. All the franchise models we have seen seem to be heavy on intellectual property. Are there some hybrid models that work with partially open licenses for content? We do not want to depend on grants, so it will have to be a self-sustaining system, most likely a for-profit, legally. In general, what models should I check out for such an education endeavor? We need a network of local "cells" that use common materials and receive common support, but I'd like to look beyond Kumon and such. Way beyond. Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make your own math
I recommend the LLC format as the corporate vessel and then you can structure and restructure to focus more tightly upon the group's objectives. It would be a way of establishing an organizational sovereignty apart from its member associations, and simplify the taxation process, while retaining membership "capital" and sharing common resources. There are cooperatives I am aware of that use the LLC form to support a cooperative process. Think in terms of an educational cooperative, which allows the association to levy fees for services and for membership, and to shift credits and member "capital" within the association. It is has an economy by organizing within a different format and "math.". Tadit On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:40:25 -0400, Maria Droujkova <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I am closely involved with a start-up that wants to be structured as a somewhat hierarchical endeavor, with local groups receiving support from The Center. It is in the field of education. Which means - a franchise. Like Kumon... eh.
All the franchise models we have seen seem to be heavy on intellectual property. Are there some hybrid models that work with partially open licenses for content? We do not want to depend on grants, so it will have to be a self-sustaining system, most likely a for-profit, legally.
In general, what models should I check out for such an education endeavor? We need a network of local "cells" that use common materials and receive common support, but I'd like to look beyond Kumon and such. Way beyond.
Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721
Make math your own, to make your own math
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
There are cooperatives I am aware of that use the LLC form to support a cooperative process. Think in terms of an educational cooperative, which allows the association to levy fees for services and for membership, and to shift credits and member "capital" within the association.
Thank you! LLC is what we are currently registering... Do you know of any educational cooperatives I can look at? The only models I know are family educator coops (I wrote about them for the p2p blog http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/family-educator-commons/2010/08/09) - but they don't generate income for their founders.
It is has an economy by organizing within a different format and "math.".
What sort of math? I am not sure I understand this part of it.
Maria, I know of one such cooperative, and that is the Cooperative Development Services cooperative which is a collective of training consultants which operate as a coooperative and they primarily provide educational services for cooperatives. There is a contact email there, to which they respond fairly quickly in my experience. Use this general url http://www.cdsus.coop/ and the contact us page is here http://www.cdsus.coop/about/contact The ACEnet group in Athens, Ohio is fairly central among the practitioners of small business incubation in economically underdeveloped areas. Much of their practice is about education and facilitation among their various clients, alumni, and the public. http://www.acenetworks.org/ This is not as good a fit to your situation, and they also manage major assets and programs in their region at this point. Tadit On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:26:10 -0400, Maria Droujkova <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
There are cooperatives I am aware of that use the LLC form to support a cooperative process. Think in terms of an educational cooperative, which allows the association to levy fees for services and for membership, and to shift credits and member "capital" within the association.
Thank you! LLC is what we are currently registering... Do you know of any educational cooperatives I can look at? The only models I know are family educator coops (I wrote about them for the p2p blog http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/family-educator-commons/2010/08/09) - but they don't generate income for their founders.
It is has an economy by organizing within a different format and "math.".
What sort of math? I am not sure I understand this part of it.
hi Maria, on the road with little time to engage for now, but see: please have a look at http://p2pfoundation.net/Solidarity_Franchising, but in general, here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Open_Company_Formats 4 licenses, see http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License with info at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Licensing On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Maria Droujkova <[email protected]>wrote:
Hello,
I am closely involved with a start-up that wants to be structured as a somewhat hierarchical endeavor, with local groups receiving support from The Center. It is in the field of education. Which means - a franchise. Like Kumon... eh.
All the franchise models we have seen seem to be heavy on intellectual property. Are there some hybrid models that work with partially open licenses for content? We do not want to depend on grants, so it will have to be a self-sustaining system, most likely a for-profit, legally.
In general, what models should I check out for such an education endeavor? We need a network of local "cells" that use common materials and receive common support, but I'd like to look beyond Kumon and such. Way beyond.
Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721
Make math your own, to make your own math
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I'm also copying legal expert Janelle Orsi on this query: On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]>wrote:
hi Maria,
on the road with little time to engage for now, but see:
please have a look at http://p2pfoundation.net/Solidarity_Franchising, but in general, here at
http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Open_Company_Formats
4 licenses, see http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License with info at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Licensing
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Maria Droujkova <[email protected]>wrote:
Hello,
I am closely involved with a start-up that wants to be structured as a somewhat hierarchical endeavor, with local groups receiving support from The Center. It is in the field of education. Which means - a franchise. Like Kumon... eh.
All the franchise models we have seen seem to be heavy on intellectual property. Are there some hybrid models that work with partially open licenses for content? We do not want to depend on grants, so it will have to be a self-sustaining system, most likely a for-profit, legally.
In general, what models should I check out for such an education endeavor? We need a network of local "cells" that use common materials and receive common support, but I'd like to look beyond Kumon and such. Way beyond.
Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721
Make math your own, to make your own math
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