What would it look like if everyone were doing the work they loved, what they felt called to do? What if everyone had the opportunity to build their skills to their maximum capabilities and then apply them to making their communities whole and beautiful?

Let’s find out!

Mutual Aid Networks (MANs) are a new type of networked cooperative creating means for everyone to discover and succeed in work they want to do, with the support of their community. We create opportunities to support each other’s right to a Human Liveliehood, or Lively Humanhood, doing the variety of work we really wish to do in the world, changing the meaning of “working for the MAN.”

Through the HUMANs (Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks, formerly the Main MAN), a global umbrella cooperative, all sister sites and members share tools, experiences and material support. Together we demonstrate that the economy is what we make it.

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