Josef Davies-Coates

= Social entrepreneur; writer; speaker; organiser

URL = https://uniteddiversity.coop/about/who/founding-directors/josef-davies-coates/

Bio

"Josef Davies-Coates is a researcher, writer, speaker, workshop leader, event producer, permaculture designer and founder of United Diversity; a cooperative dedicated to empowering people, building community, developing co-operatives and creating commons.

He plays an active role in the FairShares Association for multi-stakeholder co-operation in member-owned social enterprises and is an Associate of the P2P Foundation. He previously served on the Board of Co-operatives London and was recently invited to speak to the Greater London Authority's Regeneration team on the role of co-operatives in regeneration.

He regularly consults and advises co-operative and community enterprise start-ups on organisational design, legal structures, crowdfunding and community shares, and as co-founder of The Open Co-op was part of organising team for the Open 2017: Platform Cooperatives event in London, UK in February 2017."
(self-description)

More Information

Related Pages on this Wiki

• Josef Davies-Coates on Community Shares and Democratic Equity Crowdfunding for Cooperatives
• Josef Davies-Coates on Open Coops for Permaculture

• Decision-Making Tools
• Multi-Stakeholder Co-ops
• FairShares
• West Dorset Commons

External Links

• https://josef.is/
• United Diversity, founded by him
• personal page on United Diversity
• on Twitter
• writing on Medium
• Open Co-ops: Inspiration, Legal Structures and Tools
• West Dorset Commons