What is Giro?

The acronym Giro comes from the Spanish Grupo Integrador de Recursos y Oportunidades -Integrating Group for Resources and Opportunities

GiroGlobal is a global network of Community Organizations which, through direct exchanges of materials, energy and information, enables sustainability and prosperity for the present and guarantees a planet-friendly future for the next generations

GiroGlobal grew out of the desire to have a simple model of exchange between Communities of goods and services produced, made or acquired. This wish has come from many regions of the world, through the attempts of academics, communities and organizations, to develop such a model based on the ideals and principles of the new economy, consciousness awareness, social creativity and complexity

There is no need for intermediaries in this model, which allows for respectful, humane relations and for wealth to be returned directly or kept in the hands of those who produced it

In other words, non-profit communities or organizations guarantee on one hand stability and responsibility that an individual cannot offer. On the other hand, they neither require nor expect the profit margins associated with for-profit companies and businesses

For this reason, GiroGlobal has chosen to implement its model with groups and collective organizations that are organized along sustainable communities’ principles.

Winning with Giro

As an Administrator, you may register in GiroGlobal’s network Project Bank an idea for a product, a service, a project or even a creative idea being developed

As the Administrator of this idea, you receive a percentage of the selling price of the product (for your time, research and development)

These earnings are set either by GiroGlobal or your Community depend/… on the sales volume of the product or service

As a Producer of a good or service for your Community, determine your costs per unit - including a small personal earning

In calculating your costs of production and the sale price, remember that your Community will add a small increase relating to administrative and transport costs, in order to keep the product’s selling price to the other Communities lower than the average market price

As a Provider - According to GiroGlobal’s philosophy, we are all Producers of something. However, if what you produce is not of interest to the network, then you can find something that is not produced by your Community at a better price and a quality than on the market; suggest it to your Community for use and for distribution to the network at a price which includes a small increase which becomes your earning

As a Contact - If you find a Provider of a good or service accepted by your Community and by the network, you will receive a small percentage from both the Provider and your Community

The same applies if you find a Provider whether from inside or out of the network. The added percentage should be clearly stated and all members of your Community should be aware of it so no … or misunderstanding

As an Administrator - to publicize / market a project or a good; take an idea from the project bank and make it viable; keep up to date with it; ensure quality and consistency. You earn a small percentage for each unit sold through the network

As a Member - As the volume of sales of your Community’s goods and services increase, you will receive part of the profits

Investor - There is an Investment Fund in each Bioregion… receives significant returns on your investment

Seller or Distributor - selling outside the network in the first while until a certain level of volume builds up

Normal market prices will prevail for any sales outside the network, which will also ensure that speculators and intermediaries can not take advantage of the situation of more favorable prices within the network

Consumer - win through savings, quality, health…

Everyone can be a winner with Giro. Not only do we mean financially, but also well-being, friendships, dignity and prosperity – for ourselves, our families and our friends

GiroGlobal’s Integrated/Complete Training System “Give your life a turn around / Turn your life around”

To join GiroGlobal, each person must register with a sustainable Community, and in so doing, participates in the training workshops offered by the network either virtually or in person

The workshops are recreational and offer experiential learning. Instead of an obligation, people will see these as an appealing alternative for training and development through rest and relaxation

GiroGlobal’s training workshops aim to bring a greater awareness to members of the profound paradigm changes that have occurred since the end of the 20th century, and to affirm a more harmonious future for human beings.

Sustainable Communities and How are Organized?

Organized communities and groups that enjoy a mutually profitable and consumption and production all over the world. In general though, these are isolated instances which are not interconnected to offer support, or share experiences and products

A Sustainable Community in its simplest form is a group of people whose basic needs are met mostly by its own production and usually a number of families, a small land they establish harmonious exchange relationships and share a common ecological vision for creating a viable future for the next generations

To allow access to as many people as possible, GiroGlobal accepts groups with all kinds of philosophy of Sustainable Community as long as they maintain their nature of collectivity… A group or community guarantees stability, empowerment, human development and a form of culture

To facilitate access to all people, GiroGlobal opens its doors to any of the visions of sustainable communities, while maintaining the collective, as a group or community ensures stability, empowerment, human growth and a form of culture

To guarantee an exchange of materials, services and information, it is advisable to start with a group of people since a group can foster the energy, the desire, production, diffusion /marketing and consumption in an organized fashion

If your group, Community or organization is interested and shares GiroGlobal’s principles, you can join the network by simply placing a request

If you do not belong to any group but are interested in joining Giro, here are several ways:

a) Write to bioregiongiro@gmail.com - girocolombia - and mention your interest in participating in the nearest Community

b) Inform others about our Blog - http://girocolombia.blogspot.com – friends, family, people at work or in your neighborhood. Giro will help you develop your Sustainable Community

c) Help GiroGlobal’s pioneers with the inventory, search for and report findings on groups, collectives and communities that you know about. Depending on your capacity, you could become the Coordinator for your Bioregion

Bioregions - GiroGlobal’s basic strategy consists of coordinating/matching the resources and opportunities of each Community with each other’s. Methods have been developed to identify and register groups and communities in certain geographic areas dinamizar their creative and development processes and establish the necessary methods for the exchange of materials, services and information -MSI

The limited knowledge that communities have of each other and the distances that separate them are some of the difficulties in establishing a smooth exchange of MSI. To deal with these barriers, Giro is making a vast inventory of communities and groups organized by geographical proximity

Once GiroGlobal finds a group of Communities in one region capable of meeting its own needs, all Communities are notified and from there, a self-organization process begins

Each Region should establish an Administration Council with representatives from each Community to develop policies and means for exchanges between the Region’s Communities and to prepare for exchanges with other Regions

This Council is registered with GiroGlobal for its Region as having the capacity for self-sustainability and for responding to requests from other Regions throughout the country and the rest of the world

Once there are several Regions registered in one country, a National Council will be created to take on GiroGlobal’s planning and decision-making work for that country

With a sufficient number of National Councils, the highest organizational level of the Sustainable Communities Network will develop- Giro’s Global Council

GiroGlobal’s Economic Model - Description

GiroGlobal’s economic model is straightforward:

Members of a Community use/consume part of what they produce or acquire; the rest is sold or traded/exchanged with other Communities

The money or goods received is used to purchase or exchange necessary goods from other Communities

Sales, purchases and exchanges with Communities are conducted in the most direct way possible with information gained by GiroGlobal’s communication system

The sale or exchange price of the product is based on its production costs as well as a small profit for the Community. This compensation contributes to the Community’s well-being and dignity/self-respect. Prices will be affordable and attractive for the network

Advantages of GiroGlobal’s Economic Model

- Free sign up: no cost to belong to Giro’s exchange network

- Intermediaries are kept to a minimum so products are priced fairly

- Products and services are priced fairly. A standard price is guaranteed during a set time period. Both the producer and the consumer benefit from the stability of not being subject to prices set by wildly fluctuating market forces

- Expensive packaging and marketing can be made more efficient, therefore lowering costs

- In addition to the last point, a guaranteed network of consumers (all the Communities will be consumers) eliminates over-marketing and sales costs therefore achieving the lowest prices in the market

- With no traditional or multi-level marketing strategies needed, referrals, networks of referrals will develop naturally, by word of mouth, with true intentions

In this way, everyone wins a significant percentage given the volume of consumption through the network

- The network will have stability and loyalty because of the nature of the Communities’ producers and consumers (Prosumidores)

- Since the origin of a product is known, quality will be ensured which will generate confidence and competitively with our products

Producers and providers will take great care with their primary products and the production process knowing that their consumers are their own families and those from the other Communities.