Updated: Feb 20th, 2024, Owner/contact: @Susanna Laanikari, Role: Organisational development
<aside> <img src="/icons/apple_gray.svg" alt="/icons/apple_gray.svg" width="40px" /> A co-operative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprise. A collective is formed by individual people coming together to work on a common purpose.
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There are two ways from which to approach the Sonder co-operative and collective:
Sonder is registered as a co-operative in Finland and owned and governed by Sonder Members. Co-operatives enjoy similar legal status as limited liability companies. The co-operative provides supporting structures for individuals and teams, who in turn make the Sonder Collective in their behaviours, interactions, and ways of working, contributing actively back to the Collective and our co-operative practices.
We want to build an organisation of psychological ownership with a flat, non-hierarchical structure. To avoid bottlenecks and confusion around responsibilities, we’ve adopted a holacracy-inspired governance model that is based on the balance of role autonomy with purpose-led alignment.
The external projects have the autonomy to organise how they see fit as long as they align with Sonder purpose, values, ethics, and compliance.
Our Finance Structure: Like a Non-Profit