CV
Community Voices Media
Berlin, Germany
Community organizingCulture & storytellingMigration & diaspora
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Knowledge Commons
Knowledge Commons
for Civil Society
A federated knowledge commons where civil society organizations make selected public knowledge searchable, attributed, multilingual, and easier to support.
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FEATURED COLLECTION
Black liberation literatures
Essays, talks, reports, and community archives tracing liberation thought, memory, and organizing across generations.
This collection brings together public materials contributed by participating organizations and curated around a shared civic theme.
Anchor works
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Building Financial Independence When You Are Starting With Very Little
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When a Workplace Complaint System Protects the Organization Instead of the Person
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Why Unpaid Care Work Shapes Women’s Income Long After the Care Ends
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Leadership Without Assimilation: Succeeding Without Erasing Who You Are
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What to Do When You Feel Unsafe on the Way Home
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How to Ask for Flexible Work Without Being Pushed Off the Career Track
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Returning to Work After Caregiving: Rebuilding Income, Confidence, and Options
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Am I Being Underpaid? How to Examine Pay Inequality at Work
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How to Recognize Economic Abuse—and Find Support Safely
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I Am Being Harassed at Work—What Should I Document and Who Can I Tell?
THE FEDERATION
Organizations in the federation.
The Commons is made by participating organizations that choose what to share, how it is attributed, and how people can support their work.
CR
Community Roots Foundation
Berlin, Germany
Community organizing
CH
Community Health Access Alliance
Berlin, Germany
Health & wellbeingKnowledge infrastructureHuman rights
CF
Civic Futures Lab
Berlin, Germany
Community organizingYouth & educationAdvocacy
AW
Ageing With Dignity Alliance
Berlin, Germany
Human rightsKnowledge infrastructureOpen data & civic tech
AW
Access Without Barriers
Berlin, Germany
Human rightsKnowledge infrastructureOpen data & civic tech
Paths into the archive
Themes, collections, and guided starts.
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Themes 5
Themes group public knowledge by subject area.
Guide Advocacy Service Provision Migrants & Refugees Public EducationCollections 5
Collections are curated sets of resources from one or more organizations.
Anti-Discrimination & Equality Children, Youth & Family Climate & Environmental Justice Community, Philanthropy & Media Democracy & Civic ParticipationGuided starts 0
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Voices & perspectives
People shaping the Commons.
Editors, archivists, organizers, researchers, and community stewards help make public knowledge discoverable and accountable.
Judith Klein
Policy & Research
Policy researcher focused on care work, leadership, pension inequality, organizational culture, and intersectional gender equity.
Policy & Research
2 contributions
Sofia Petrova
Safety & Support
Safety and support specialist focused on gender-based violence, public-space harassment, referral pathways, and non-blaming safety planning.
Safety & Support
3 contributions
Fatima Benali
Economic Justice
Economic-justice adviser working on financial independence, economic abuse, debt referral, benefits, and the long-term cost of care.
Economic Justice
3 contributions
Hannah Richter
Workplace Equality
Workplace equality practitioner focused on harassment response, pay transparency, flexible work, and organizational accountability.
Workplace Equality
4 contributions
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SUPPORT SPOTLIGHT
Shared knowledge needs shared support.
This space rotates across Commons stewardship needs and participating organizations. Each spotlight connects public knowledge to the people and infrastructure that keep it discoverable, attributed, and accessible.
CURATED GUIDES
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Long-form deep dives.
Editorial pathways through connected materials, organizations, and public questions.
Compiled from public contributions and reviewed by Commons editors.
Building Financial Independence When You Are Starting With Very Little
Financial independence from near-zero starts with income, safety, documents, banking access, benefits, debt support, and small reserves where possible. Budgeting can help, but it cannot replace adequate income, safe housing, fair work, or public support.
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When a Workplace Complaint System Protects the Organization Instead of the Person
Internal complaint systems can help, but they can also protect employers through conflicts of interest, confidentiality pressure, weak investigations, and retaliation risk. This guide names those limits while offering self-protection steps that do not overpromise the process.
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Why Unpaid Care Work Shapes Women’s Income Long After the Care Ends
Unpaid care changes income through time out of paid work, part-time penalties, missed promotion, pension gaps, and household bargaining power. The answer is not better individual negotiation alone, but policy and workplace design that stop treating care as a private cost.
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STEWARDSHIP
A Commons with clear stewardship.
Participating organizations retain ownership of their materials and choose what becomes public. The Commons provides discovery, attribution, multilingual access, and shared infrastructure.
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Ownership stays with contributors
Organizations grant publishing and indexing rights for selected materials; they do not surrender ownership.
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Attribution is preserved
Every contribution points back to its source, organization, language, and context.
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Participation is transparent
Funding, governance, moderation, and participation rules are published openly.
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Participating organizations remain the source and owner of their public knowledge. Loracta provides the infrastructure layer that makes the Commons searchable, multilingual, and source-linked.
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Anti-Discrimination & Equality
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Children, Youth & Family
40 resources →
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Climate & Environmental Justice
10 resources →
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Community, Philanthropy & Media
20 resources →
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Democracy & Civic Participation
10 resources →
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Digital Rights & Online Safety
30 resources →
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Disability & Accessibility
10 resources →
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Gender & Women's Rights
10 resources →