1. CCCP: Advocacy and Action

2. Who Are We?
The Creative Community Cooperative Project is a group connected by a passion for restoring the rightful place of arts, artisanship, and practitioners in the cultural, educational, and economic landscape of American society. Our efforts begin, right here, in Portland, Oregon.

3. Our Mission – S.T.E.P.S Safety Trust Equity Purpose Security
What Do We Do?
Our Mission – S.T.E.P.S
Safety
Trust
Equity
Purpose
Security

4. S.T.E.P.S and Maslow's Hierarchy
Maslow's Hierarchy begins with a foundation of meeting physical needs, providing security, a sense of purposeful place, elevated esteem, and a productive outcome – self-actualization, the most fundamental need of the creative spirit.
CCCP is a holistic model for delivering to creative human needs.

5. How Do We Do It?
Cohere latent service related resources within identified arts and artisan related clusters.
Offer the opportunities to secure living, work, educational, business, and career development in an ecosystem based on Maslow's hierarchy.
Find points of service-based interface and coordinate their functional integration – a suite of living social and public service programs.
From their convergence, create affordable, cooperative communities.
Elevate the prominence and power of neighborhood-centric cultural identity.
Replicate this model throughout the community-at-large.

6. Who Do We Serve?
Working-class creatives and their families, their neighborhoods, and schools.
CCCP is a fully inclusive program – representing diverse disciplines, ability or disability, age, gender, ethnicity, etc.
While our model can be applied to other demographics, our focus is on those living at or below the poverty threshold.

7. “We” - The Community and the Cooperative
We are not defined by narrow perceptions of who we are or what we do.
We have knowledge, skills, expertise, and experience that goes well beyond our roles as musicians, painters, writers, and other creative endeavors. Among these capabilities are service related talents and this is the key to the CCCP proposition that, through service, we empower ourselves and each other.
From this and, through relieving our struggle to meet our most basic needs, we are freed to be a beneficial resource to schools, neighborhoods, and the community-at-large.

8. What Value Are We Bringing?
Shared services build strong relationships and develop shared values.
The CCCP model is a tangible demonstration for others to see this principle in action.
The question is whether ours is a feasible proposal. The answer is, yes, it is.

9. The CCCP Template and Other Related Models
The CCCP template is designed to fit into a dense urban setting and is scalable, requiring a site as small as 1/3 acre – 60' x 220' .
Its container-based construction is a model used in several applications, including a veterans complex in L.A. Structurally sound, cost efficient, and aesthetically flexible, containers fit well into the objective of providing owner-occupied living and work space for those making as little as $ a month.
Among programs for comparison, one in Park City, Utah stands out. By first providing housing, the rate of success in other programs – rehab, employment, etc. - is impressive.

10. Small Footprint, Large Impact
Under the CCCP model, a 1/3 acre tract will have:
38 permanent residences.
Space for 24 transitional residents.
8 work, production, and teaching spaces.
8 business development and operations spaces.
A large central venue for meeting, dining, performance, and exhibition.
5760 square feet of greenhouses and atriums
Energy generating capacity to sustain operation, while providing a consistent revenue source.
A full suite of social and public services.
And more.

11. From Concept To Application
Two self-contained benefits from a simple, scalable model.
Facilities and services as infrastructure
Neighborhood centered arts and culture districts

12. Tiny Houses and Eco-villages: More Than a Trend
Necessity, the mother of resourcefulness, has moved us to seek solutions beyond the norm. Living systems are now the inspiration for sustainable communities. Those that succeed begin with functional needs and design the facility form, accordingly. CCCP embraces this principle.

13. Just The Beginning
One pilot demonstration, including a program for transitional residents to build equity in ensuing developments, has the capability to exponentially grow into a network of cultural magnets and safe spaces.
The timeliness of our model is ripe; its critical need is self- evident.