**RCOS — Regenerative Community Operating System**

# Purpose Charter

- **Generated:** 2026-04-29
- **Source (latest version):** [https://blueprint.ecohubs.community/articles/rcos-templates/layer-0/purpose-charter](https://blueprint.ecohubs.community/articles/rcos-templates/layer-0/purpose-charter)
- **All RCOS templates:** [https://blueprint.ecohubs.community/articles/rcos-templates](https://blueprint.ecohubs.community/articles/rcos-templates)

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- **Layer:** 0 — Identity & Scope
- **Status:** Template — adapt for your community
- **RCOS reference:** [§2.1](https://blueprint.ecohubs.community/articles/rcos-core/v0-1/layer-0-identity-scope#21-purpose-definition), [§2.5](https://blueprint.ecohubs.community/articles/rcos-core/v0-1/layer-0-identity-scope#25-artifacts)

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## Primary Purpose

*RCOS clauses: [2.1.1](https://blueprint.ecohubs.community/articles/rcos-core/v0-1/layer-0-identity-scope#21-purpose-definition), [2.1.2](https://blueprint.ecohubs.community/articles/rcos-core/v0-1/layer-0-identity-scope#21-purpose-definition), [2.1.5](https://blueprint.ecohubs.community/articles/rcos-core/v0-1/layer-0-identity-scope#21-purpose-definition)*

<details data-kind="rationale">
<summary>Why a single enduring purpose?</summary>

Every decision, role, and allocation of resources downstream has to stay consistent with one thing — the community's primary purpose. If it drifts, shifts with trends, or gets rewritten to justify the latest project, there is nothing left to anchor governance to. A single, stable primary purpose is the constitutional north star: strategies change, the purpose does not.

</details>

<details data-kind="instructions">
<summary>How to fill this in</summary>

State exactly one primary purpose. It must describe the enduring reason your community exists — not a project, strategy, or short-term goal. One or two sentences.

</details>

_<Your community's primary purpose, in one or two sentences.>_

## Secondary Purposes

*RCOS clauses: [2.1.4](https://blueprint.ecohubs.community/articles/rcos-core/v0-1/layer-0-identity-scope#21-purpose-definition)*

<details data-kind="rationale">
<summary>Why allow secondary purposes?</summary>

A community rarely does only one thing. Secondary purposes make space for the other concrete outcomes the community pursues — but they are subordinate. If a secondary purpose ever conflicts with the primary, the primary wins. Declaring them explicitly prevents scope creep from masquerading as core work.

</details>

<details data-kind="instructions">
<summary>How to fill this in</summary>

List concrete secondary outcomes the community pursues. They must not conflict with or override the primary purpose. Remove the section entirely if you have none.

</details>

1. _<Secondary purpose 1.>_
2. _<Secondary purpose 2.>_
3. _<Secondary purpose 3.>_

## Non-Goals and Exclusions

<details data-kind="rationale">
<summary>Why state what the community is not?</summary>

Communities drift by accretion — one uncontested assumption at a time. Naming what the community is explicitly *not* makes boundary violations visible early, and gives anyone a clear basis to object before an activity becomes normalized. Silence here gets read as consent.

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<details data-kind="instructions">
<summary>How to fill this in</summary>

Name the things your community is explicitly NOT, especially identities or roles others might assume by default (political party, investment vehicle, religious group, etc.).

</details>

1. _<Non-goal 1.>_
2. _<Non-goal 2.>_
3. _<Non-goal 3.>_

## Conditions for Purpose Change

*RCOS clauses: [2.1.3](https://blueprint.ecohubs.community/articles/rcos-core/v0-1/layer-0-identity-scope#21-purpose-definition)*

<details data-kind="rationale">
<summary>Why make changing the purpose hard?</summary>

Purpose is the one thing everything else depends on. If it were easy to change, nothing above it in the stack — membership, governance, invariants — could be trusted to mean the same thing from one year to the next. Constitutional-level thresholds and a ratification delay force a deliberate, visible act, not a quiet drift.

</details>

<details data-kind="instructions">
<summary>How to fill this in</summary>

Describe the change procedure. At minimum: the decision type required for the primary purpose (Constitutional, per Layer 2), the threshold, the ratification delay, and where the change is recorded (Layer 6 version history). Secondary purposes typically need a lower bar.

</details>

The primary purpose may only be changed through a Constitutional decision as defined in the Decision Matrix (Layer 2), requiring _<threshold, e.g. supermajority of Full Members ≥⅔ of votes cast>_, followed by a ratification period of no less than _<duration, e.g. 30 days>_. Secondary purposes may be changed through a Strategic decision. Any change must be recorded in the Version History (Layer 6).

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## Ratification Record

- **Adopted:** <YYYY-MM-DD>
- **Decision type:** Constitutional
- **Version:** <version>
- **Decision record:** <link to decision record>