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The 3 Virtuous Circles – Managing Surplus for Community Benefit

Sharing surplus in the right way creates three transformative cycles of motivation, investment and capability

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• When enterprise’s directors issue surplus profit:
  • They get a share because they are co-workers
  • All co-workers get a share
  • The investment and development funds receive income
• Directors salaries and bonuses are agreed with Civil Ecology Corporation (CEC)
  • If Directors want a bonus they have to issue surplus profit
  • Controlling Directors pay sets limits on all pay
• Sharing profit makes profitability everyone’s concern
  • Co-workers motivated to manage costs – as if it was their own money
  • Co-workers motivated to drive sales as they will benefit
• Profit share bonus received through CEC
  • Makes the CEC relevant to everyone
  • Provides a hook to join and be interested
• Funding the democratic governance of CEC
• Enterprise performance is transparently available to co-workers via CEC website.

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• A separate enterprise founded and controlled by Civil Ecology Corporation (CEC)
• Performance managed
• Funded by
  • Profit from mature CEC enterprises
  • Social investment grants
  • Selling social investment bonds
• Funding
  • Start-ups in the CEC
  • Buying enterprises into the CEC
  • Providing loans to enterprises in the CEC
• With the purpose of expanding the commercial enterprise of the CEC
• With the intention of providing ethical investment banking service

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• Funding training, research and consultancy
  • In collaboration with the Civil Society Forum (CSF)
  • The CSF Forum provides opportunity for research, spaces to think, places to meet and seek collaborators, peer-group support.
  • The CSF College provides co-worker training in the Civil Ecology Corporation (CEC), ethical business training, leadership training
  • The CSF Agency provides Commons based business consultancy across a broad range of needs: business transformation, crisis management, sales development, and so on
• Sharing information
  • Internal and external websites explaining and promoting
  • Sharing and explaining financial information
• Funding the Cultural Realm
  • Education, health and the arts
  • All provide development opportunities and spiritual nourishment for human beings
  • All require funding to be ensure they are accessible
• Growing the capacity of the CEC to grow
  • Supporting co-workers to do a better job
  • Developing the skill, capacity and capability of co-workers.

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Surplus profit drives development

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