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[To Community](https://to.community) is a set of strategies for bonding companies to communities. It's also an open research program on how to transition society to new forms of community ownership and governance. Here’s what we’re working on:

1. **Transitions Calculators**: calculators to help transition companies and open source software projects to community governance, funded by the NSF and DIIF (Ford, Sloan, Omidyar, Schmidt Futures, Open Collective).
1. [**Transitions Calculators**](https://to.community/calculators): calculators to help transition companies and open source software projects to community governance, funded by the NSF and DIIF (Ford, Sloan, Omidyar, Schmidt Futures, Open Collective).
1. **Open Founder Interviews**: research on founder openness to alternative financing, leading toward a public article. See below for summary and how to contribute. <!-- [Summary + how to contribute!]() -->
2. **Product Discovery as Cooperative Communication**: mathematical modeling research. See the [project 1-pager](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qwcdIuacdUHd_bQTCdA8V3_3w6-0Aj_AIIo8oSOnNPI).
3. **Software for E2C**: an open-source software framework to help companies exit to community. See the [To Community 1-pager](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qwcdIuacdUHd_bQTCdA8V3_3w6-0Aj_AIIo8oSOnNPI) and our [YC pitch video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt5fWkI7Gj4).
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<title>FAQ - Governance Transition Calculators</title>
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<h1 class="text-3xl font-bold mb-4 text-left">FAQ - Governance Transition Calculators</h1>
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<h2 class="text-2xl font-bold mb-2">What is this tool?</h2>
<p>Exit to Community requires fully transitioning ownership and governance rights of a company to the
community of people who most rely on the products, services and technologies produced by the
organization. Like any business exit, this is not an easy transition and often requires some
resources to be invested to for example: negotiate terms of the exit with founders and investors,
restructure the operations of the organization to allow for community ownership and governance, hire
lawyers to draw up new contracts and bylaws, etc. The E2C Calculator is a tool to help you assess
your E2C readiness and decide whether your organization and community are in a good position to make
the additional investment required to execute an E2C in future.</p>
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<h2 class="text-2xl font-bold mb-2">Who this tool is for?</h2>
<p>This tool is for organizations who are either exploring the option of E2C and want to find out if it
would be suitable for them, as well as for communities who are already fully committed to this path
forward and curious to assess if they’re ready to take the next big step. Ideally, after using this
tool you will have a clearer understanding of how ready your organization is for community ownership
and which areas you should be working on more.</p>
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<h2 class="text-2xl font-bold mb-2">How to use this tool?</h2>
<p>After answering a set of questions relating to the current state and operations of your business and
community, the tool will indicate a readiness score for you. The score helps you anchor yourself on
the path to E2C. You will also receive dedicated scores for each section in which you answered
questions, helping you to assess which areas to potentially improve on in order to feel confident
about your E2C.</p>
<p>In principle, any member of such an organization or community can fill out the assessment from their
perspective. The tool is most effective when stakeholders who are crucial throughout the E2C process
(current business owners, community leaders) align in their assessment of the organization and
community in question. Having a common understanding of how things are and where they should go is
an important first step on the path to E2C.</p>
<p>We envision the tool to be used both by individuals, curious to explore the opportunities and risks
of E2C in their given context, as well as for stakeholder groups coming together to make a decision.
Here, the calculator should be used as a tool that helps to anchor the group’s conversation, focus
attention where it matters and ultimately help all stakeholders come to a collective decision that
everyone feels comfortable with.</p>
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<h2 class="text-2xl font-bold mb-2">Why we built this tool?</h2>
<p>Because user/ community ownership needs to be more of a thing! Yet, it’s a really difficult path for
organizations to go. All business exits are difficult and require significant negotiation, time and
resources. Especially, venturing down a lesser known exit strategy, such as E2C, can bring a lot of
risk and uncertainty. Consequently, feeling confident in being ready to seriously explore and
implement this type of exit is an important first step in the transition process itself. The E2C
Calculators helps communities build an understanding and thus confidence in their own readiness and
potential areas to address in order to become even more ready.</p>
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<h2 class="text-2xl font-bold mb-2">How we built this tool?</h2>
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