F A Q

What is the difference between Members Features and the public site?

Only members of Bloom can post on Bloom. When you become a member of Bloom, you gain access to loads of resources for members: templates to grow your project at each stage of development, search skills, needs and offers to find collaborators, and feature your products and services to help grow a cooperative, regenerative economy. And lots more! The purpose of our membership platform is to maintain a functional, focused place where we can support one another's efforts.

The public site is curated in order to maintain a high quality public resource for people looking for inspiration and action templates they can do. Non-members do not receive dividends from Bloom cooperative, and they cannot post or create a profile on the site.

The members network is designed to support:

• Deep conversations
• Incubate in progress work in a values-aligned space
• When you write a post, you have an option to make it "members only". Use that for posts you might not want publicly available, such as sharing about your healing journey, or a plant medicine experience you had, or a challenging race or social dynamic in your community that you have insights on or need help with but don’t want to invite online abuse.

The public site is curated in order to maintain a high quality public resource for people looking for inspiration and action templates they can do. Non-members do not receive dividends from Bloom cooperative, and they cannot post or create a profile on the site.

The members network is designed to support:

• Deep conversations
• Incubate in progress work in a values-aligned space
• When you write a post, you have an option to make it "members only". Use that for posts you might not want publicly available, such as sharing about your healing journey, or a plant medicine experience you had, or a challenging race or social dynamic in your community that you have insights on or need help with but don’t want to invite online abuse.

Why does Bloom charge a membership fee?

We don't just yet, but we are in the process of making the platform be a member-owned cooperative by 2025. Members will co-own the platform and govern its development! (Functionally you do now it's just pure anarchy, so please speak up if you'd like to see anything be different!).

Monthly membership fees will be low, like the cost of a subscription to Spotify. Your membership fee will go mostly to your Local Bloom treasury for local projects! and some to Bloom International which maintains Bloom Platform and provides some staff sharing with Local Blooms, so we can all support one another. This is like if you had shared ownership and governance of Facebook, and your subscription fee goes into rad stuff that makes your community a better place!


• Members receive peer development support, payment for regenerative actions, and further media reach than many of us would be able to achieve on our own.
• Bloom makes it easier to find a team and build a local project. You have access to templates from other projects that are further along, to help you have an easier time and move faster to address the local issues you care about.
• Another reason we use a membership fee is to reduce trolls and noise. People are here because they want to be in a values aligned community doing practical action. We invest in each other and divest from extractive corporations.

Roadmap of Bloom Platform development

What revenue streams will Bloom have?

• Service providers of technical assistance
• Online workshops
• Web3 grants
• Sponsorships
• Future: NFT sales

Revenue will be shared between members and people maintaining the platform. Our goal is to get as much money as possible into the hands of the people on the ground doing the most important community labor in areas such as climate adaptation, better social structures, cooperative housing - you get the idea. Our operations should support a culture of mutual support.