Jonathan Bean Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Thrive hives are groups of people who want to receive and offer support to guide people to develop regenerative living skills. That is living in a values based way that regenerates the world around them rather than degenerates it.

🦋 As the Steward of Eco-Social Impact at Beauty in the Backyard (BITB), Jonathan Nathaniel Bean plays a pivotal role in nurturing a transformational community experience. Set against the serene backdrop of Oakland, Maryland, BITB brings together the elements of interactive music, arts, workshops, live performances, and a plant-based community potluck, all geared towards authentic, meaningful connections.Centered around the theme of re-connection, BITB combines the best aspects of festivals, retreats, and Burning Man principles to create a one-of-a-kind, carefully curated participatory experience. Here, attendees are encouraged to explore their creativity, expand their consciousness, forge deeper connections, and engage with like-minded individuals.As the Social Impact Branch Director, Jonathan is responsible for the following objectives:Amplifying collective social impact within in-person and online community spacesCultivating respect and healthy relationships with local and indigenous populations, land, culture, and ethicsMotivating the community to foster a deeper connection with themselves, each other, and natureTo achieve these objectives, Jonathan focuses on key results, such as:Monitoring, assessing, and publishing reports on the positive impact of events in the areas of social, environmental, spiritual, cultural, and financial aspectsTo accomplish these results, Jonathan oversees tasks such as:Guiding and inspiring the team on effective methods, practices, technologies, systems, and philosophies to enhance collective social impactLeading the transition of BITB to an official non-profit organizationEstablishing connections with sustainable initiatives and forging supportive relationships within the regenerative movementPreserving the culture and ethics of the locals, natives, and ancestors of the lands in which BITB operatesTo join in on this transformative experience, use coupon code "BEAN" to receive a 10% discount on your ticket to BITB.

Richmond, Virginia Area

The Societal Progress Cooptocracy Platform aims to provide a platform to help people form and govern a new advanced form of societal progress organizations with a hybrid form of government called Cooptocracy. It offers a better more ethical way to form and govern the organizations of the future that balance the power among all stakeholders including consumers, users, workers, and creators.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Sustainy is a Platform Coop that aims to incentivize and guide users to living a lifestyle that regenerates Earth and Society. It does this by helping them measure, track, compare, share, and reward their consumption of food that is healthy for Earth, society, and their bodies.

Social.coop is social media platform owned and governed by the users and workers. We use Loomio platform to facilitate a participatory democracy process to make decisions for the Platform Coop. The benefit of platform coops is that they serve the users and do not seek to exploit them. I think the future will be having more of these more democratic organizations we can call Solidarity Enterprises as extractive business models lose their legitimacy with users.We use platform called open collective to collect, distribute, and manage our funds in a transparent way. We also partner with meet.coop to provide a video meeting platform for our users.- As elected to the more formal role of the community working group operations team I participated in governance and as a moderator for the Mastodon Instance at social.coop. - I also helped welcome and onboard new users and participated in monthly calls to discuss the operations and future of the coop.I continue to participate in the participatory governance decisions.My experience with this organization has taught me a lot about moderation and conflict resolution and about how to set up a platform cooperative that works and truly serves its users and gives them a voice.I am excited to have this experience in my endeavors to co-create other platforms that are user-focused or cooperative or any platform that aspires to be more participatory with users and workers and giving them a voice.

Ashland, Va

I helped develop a community of 5 tiny houses. I helped recruit new members, organize and facilitate community, meetings, develop plans and vision statements, facilitated community building exercises. Used social media to coordinate. Represented the community at national Communities Conference at Twin Oaks. I raised and took care of over a dozen chickens. I nurtured food gardens and building structures with an experimental building material.

Chester, Virginia, United States

Between the ages of 13 and 18 I had a few weekly customers I enjoyed serving after going throughout the neighborhoods around me to find clients. Some jobs performed include: I cared for their lawns and landscapes, trimming grass and hedges, digging ditches, and clearing a huge backyard overgrowth with my brother.

Daegu, South Korea

I taught English as a second language to students of grades K-12.

Platform Coops Now Course And Accelerator Program, Platform Coop Design And Development

I gained a lot of knowledge, skills, and connections that help me design and build platform coops. In our team, we worked on developing.

Bachelor'S Degree (90% Completion), Human Nature, Neurobiology, Cognitive Science Of Perception

Activities and Societies: Film Making Club My essays on Human Nature profoundly impressed the TA's that they said it was the best they've.

Associate'S Degree, Arts And Sciences, 3.4 Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Philosophy Club, Creative Writing I graduated from a technology specialized Matoaca High school a year early.