Public Library · V8 Business Plan
Organizational Business Plan V8
A covenant-member-approved public-review guide to Paradise Folk School's mission, legal lanes, governance logic, fund planning, safeguarding boundaries, and phased organizing model.
What this plan is for
The Organizational Business Plan V8 is the plain-language operating story for Paradise Folk School. It explains what the organization is trying to build, which legal lanes must stay separate, how member governance and approval gates protect the work, and why public language must stay careful until formation, finance, safeguarding, and governing reviews are complete.
This page summarizes the approved documents for public readers. The PDF files are the source documents. Nothing on this page activates funds, donations, PAC activity, candidate support, BenefitAll, services, partnerships, property work, care programs, school partnerships, payouts, or program launches.
Member Summary
The business plan in plain English
Mission and thesis
Paradise proposes to build community power through education, worship, mutual aid planning, local food systems, civic training, transparent records, and democratic governance after required approvals.
County-by-county model
The plan treats counties as the practical operating unit, with cities, school districts, precincts, neighborhoods, and boards as drill-down layers for field work and accountability.
Education before authority
Members are expected to study the Common Charter, Garden Book, Business Plan, and safeguarding materials before receiving deeper responsibility.
Approval gates first
Public claims, money movement, program activity, youth work, partnerships, and candidate activity require written review before they move from planning into action.
Legal lanes explained
The plan separates future work into lanes so public-benefit education, advocacy, electoral activity, and mission enterprise do not get mixed together.
Paradise Folk School nonprofit
First formation priority for education, worship or congregation-school activity, public benefit, mutual aid planning, food education, safeguarding, civic education, and early Chattanooga work after formation and approval.
Open fund business planFuture social-welfare lane
A possible future home for lawful issue advocacy, voter education, public-policy education, legislative education, and field ministry work. It is not active in this public website update.
Open fund business planFuture PAC lane
A future-only electoral lane that would require registration, treasurer controls, campaign-finance counsel, reporting calendars, donor rules, disclaimers, and strict separation.
Open fund business planBenefitAll mission enterprise
A planning-only mission enterprise concept for possible earned-income, cooperative purchasing, ethical data systems, property stewardship, and community enterprise if counsel confirms a lawful structure.
Open fund business planDocument Map
How to read the approved documents
Approved Business Plan PDF
The main 14-page plan: executive summary, mission, legal architecture, lanes, governance, finance model, timeline, and risk controls.
Approved Appendix PDF
The 75-page backup packet: Chattanooga appendix, legal review map, operating controls, templates, evidence, and workflow safeguards.