The Buy Nothing Project movement is diverse and also includes communities using our free app, currently in beta testing, as well as many Buy Nothing gift economy communities based on Facebook, where local group leaders have made changes to the Global Standard documents.

This public copyright gives people the legal right to use the Global Standard Documents as-is, or to make edits, for non-commercial purposes.Ĭommunities using Global Standard Documents without alterations use our resources as they appear on our website. The majority of our Global Standard Documents carry a public copyright from Creative Commons. In their original form, as we’ve written them, we refer to them as our Global Standard Documents. The Buy Nothing Project provides a number of freely-given resources that are available to anyone around the world interested in building a Buy Nothing community. This is a dynamic document that we update as we learn more about how to make this movement more accessible and powerful It was written to provide a Buy Nothing structure for Facebook Groups, and you may also find it useful for Buy Nothing communities using a similar private group structure. This movement is supported by our free and independent platform - the BuyNothing app (downloadable at the App Store and Google Play) - a free online course, the Buy Nothing Language Team, our Help Center, and a library of resources and tools available to everyone around the world.

We believe that communities are more resilient, sustainable, equitable, and joyful when they have functional gift economies. Buy Nothing offers people a way to give and receive, share, lend, and express gratitude through a worldwide network of gift economies in which the true wealth is the web of connections formed between people who are real-life neighbors. THE BUY NOTHING PROJECT is an international network of local gift economy Buy Nothing groups.

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