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Website Audit
Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC)
Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC)
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Project details
What we need
- Feedback on current website
- Help outlining improvements in layout, user functionality, visual design, content/languaging, navigability, and SEO
- Any other brilliant recommendations that will help us meet our goals
What we have in place
- We have 5 legal resource libraries that provide free legal information on urban farming, cooperatives, community enterprise, food and farming businesses, and community currencies. See the list of sites here: http://www.theselc.org/eresources.
I have worked with these sites for two years and am the main administrator so I have a solid understanding of users, site traffic, content, goals for improvement, etc. I am ready to dedicate time to collaborating with our volunteer professional and identifying opportunity areas for improvement.
How this will help
This project will save us $4,762 , allowing us to provide free legal advice to 45 community changemakers in the new economy.
We believe legal information should be free and comprehensible. Legal information is also a powerful tool for social and economic change. That's why we've created these online legal resource libraries with information on urban farming, local food, small community-supported enterprises, and cooperatives.
In order to increase the impact and reach of these sites, we need to increase quality of design and site traffic. That's why we want to identify areas for improvement and apply the expert advice of our volunteer professional.
Project plan
Posted by
Yassi E.
SELC City Policies Program Director
Our mission
Legal education, research, advice, and advocacy for just and resilient economies.
SELC cultivates a new legal landscape that supports community resilience and grassroots economic empowerment. We provide essential legal tools so communities everywhere can develop their own sustainable sources of food, housing, energy, jobs, and other vital aspects of a thriving community.
What we do
Neither our communities nor our ecosystems are well served by an economic system that incentivizes perpetual growth, wealth concentration, and the exploitation of land and people. Communities everywhere are responding to these converging economic and ecological crises with a grassroots transformation of our economy that is rapidly re-localizing production, reducing resource consumption, and rebuilding the relationships that make our communities thrive.
However, as new solutions for resilience emerge, many are running into entrenched legal barriers: laws originally designed to protect people from the ills of industrialism are now preventing many communities from growing and selling their own food, investing in local businesses, creating sustainable housing options, and cooperatively owning land and businesses.
SELC exists to bridge the gap in legal expertise needed to transition from destructive economic systems to innovative and cooperative alternatives. Our 10 programs work together in identifying key leverage points in our existing economic and legal systems, removing strategic legal barriers and creating replicable models for community resilience. We work to:
1) Envision more just and resilient economic and legal systems;
2) Identify and advocate for public policies that remove legal barriers to resilient communities while maintaining and strengthening worker, consumer and environmental protections;
3) Empower community-based entrepreneurs and innovators to create replicable legal structures that will form the blueprints of the new economy;
4) Educate communities and law-makers about the potential of new economic strategies; and
5) Train the next generation of community-based lawyers to meet the burgeoning legal needs of resilient communities everywhere.
