The Barrington Collective Mission Statement

• The Barrington Collective builds genuine, supportive communities to overcome feelings of powerlessness, alienation and dependence and to provide social contexts for individual and group creative empowerment.
• The collective networks among co-ops and collectives as well as with broader Bay Area communities. It attempts to bridge gaps, to facilitate skill sharing and mutual learning, and to pool resources, information and energies both among its members and in solidarity with other individuals and communities.
• The Barrington Collective includes and is open to people of varying backgrounds. Its members take on as much or as little as they want.
• The collective seeks to function non-hierarchically, autonomously and cooperatively to ensure the effectiveness of achieving these goals.
• The collective is more than the people who comprise it. It is a state of mind and an organic, dynamic process; not a static institution.

Changes to this mission statement must be made by consensus at Barrington Collective meetings.