It is time to let things change

I have reached the age when mortality is a real companion. I am seeking to transform IsGood to a non-profit community asset and step back to a smaller role. My vision for my life’s work is for it to become an enduring community asset: With 1) User ownership 2) A core group to handle general oversight, shop floor management, teaching, and office. 3) a good balance between collective and autonomous decision making. 4) Robust opportunities for small groups to imagine and create exciting innovations and improvements.

This idea has been passed around among several of my committed users, and judging from the potential resources and overwhelming interest revealed it should not be hard to achieve. After 40 years in business, 14 of them as a public access shop, I have proven the model, now I need to pass most of it on. All the systems are in place and scalable.

The first step in transitioning the shop to the new vision is to bring together a group who are sincerely interested in the idea to begin developing a healthy design. I have lots of good offers for advice including a pro bono legal work on making the idea water tight.

The biggest obstacle is IsGood does not have enough cash flow (it IS improving) to pay good salaries for a core group. I cannot engineer this change myself because I am battling cancer. I want to leave Seattle with an enduring community owned asset.

If this idea is compelling to you, please join us as a member to get to know us and give us your ideas