Designing a Community Membership Process course Recommended Books
We suggest reading the below books for this online course.
As a course participant, you will automatically receive a discount of 15% off the below titles in our online store when you are logged into your ic.org account at check out.
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Best of Communities III – Leadership, Power, and MembershipStarting From $8.00 -
Best of Communities I – Intentional Community Overview and Starting a CommunityStarting From $8.00 -
The Cooperative Culture HandbookStarting From $14.00 -
Together Resilient & The Cooperative Culture Handbook (paperback bundle)$32.00 -
Wisdom of Communities: Volume 1 – Starting a Community$15.00 -
Together ResilientStarting From $8.00
Additionally, the following recommended books are available from our partner, New Society Publishing:
- Creating a Life Together, by Diana Leafe Christian
- Creating Cohousing, by Kathryn McCamant & Charles Durrett
The instructor, Laird Schaub recommends reading the following articles from his blog:
- Open Membership
- Do You Buy a Beer or Rent One?
- Balancing Transparency & Confidentiality
- Questions Groups Should Ask (But Probably Haven’t)
- Group Works: Group Culture
- Saying “No” to Prospective Members
- Voting and Cooperative Culture
- Registered Sex Offenders & Community Membership
- The Entrepreneurial Dilemma
- Tough Topics in Cooperative Groups
