The Shared World Project
Community leaders reviewing plans around a work table at a garden site

Governance and accountability

Leadership that stays answerable to the work.

Shared World is not building a personality brand. The public charity needs leadership that can be audited, trusted, and replaced when the mission requires it.

How leadership works What gets published

How Shared World is governed

The Shared World Project is a 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 39-4633454, and the charity arm of Netism. Netism provides governing values and parent-organization alignment. Shared World carries the public charitable work: programs, service records, partner intake, resource routing, volunteer pathways, and community projects.

The leadership model is intentionally practical. Authority should sit close enough to the work to understand what is happening, but documented enough that donors, volunteers, agencies, host communities, and partners can see how decisions are made.

The leadership standard

The purpose of this page is trust. It should make clear who is accountable, what is still being finalized, and what will be published before public launch.

No hidden control

Public charity decisions must be documented through board authority, conflict review, written policies, and program records rather than informal personal control.

Roles before personalities

We publish what each role is responsible for before we publish bios. The public should understand the structure even while seats are being finalized.

Money and impact are reviewable

Financial reporting, grant decisions, resource routing, service records, and program outcomes need enough documentation for donors, partners, agencies, and reviewers to inspect.

The operating structure

Four leadership layers keep the public charity from collapsing into one person, one program, or one informal decision channel.

Board governance

Founding cohort in formation

The board holds legal fiduciary responsibility, adopts policies, approves budgets, reviews conflicts, and protects the public mission of the charity.

  • Mission and policy oversight
  • Budget and grant review
  • Conflict-of-interest review
  • Executive accountability

Executive operations

Working lead model

Day-to-day operations coordinate public programs, partner intake, platform buildout, volunteers, service records, communications, and launch readiness.

  • Program coordination
  • Platform and records oversight
  • Partner intake
  • Public communications

Program leadership

Published as leads formalize

Program leads carry operational knowledge for food systems, natural building, energy, education, volunteer pathways, and resource recovery.

  • Site standards
  • Training methods
  • Safety planning
  • Outcome reporting

Advisory network

Open to qualified advisors

Advisors help with finance, law, insurance, nonprofit operations, land use, construction, agriculture, power systems, and court-service compliance.

  • Specialist review
  • Risk identification
  • Technical guidance
  • Partner credibility

What we publish, and when

Transparency has to be useful, not performative. The page will publish real people and disclosures when the records behind those roles are ready.

  1. Now

    Governance model, role responsibilities, transparency standards, contact paths, and the relationship to Netism.

  2. Before public launch announcement

    At least one named board member, conflict-of-interest disclosure standard, bylaws status, and launch-readiness notes.

  3. As seats are finalized

    Board roster, working officer roles, program leads, advisor bios, photos, and role-specific disclosures.

  4. Ongoing

    Financial filings, impact reports, board updates when appropriate, and material changes to governance or program authority.

Netism guides values. Shared World handles public service.

The relationship to Netism matters, but it should not confuse public participation. Shared World service, volunteering, donating, court-service records, resource exchange, and nonprofit partnerships remain open to people who are not involved in Netism.

Read the Netism relationship

Advisor and board needs

Shared World needs qualified people who can strengthen the work without turning it into a resume exercise. If you bring serious experience in one of these areas, start with a clear note and the role you believe you can responsibly carry.

Contact the team
  • Nonprofit finance and accounting
  • Texas nonprofit law and governance
  • Insurance and volunteer risk management
  • Regenerative agriculture and food forests
  • Natural building and site safety
  • Community service and agency liaison work
  • Grant writing and public reporting
  • Technology, privacy, and records systems
Financial transparency Impact reporting Programs Partnerships