oikos Guideline: A Red Thread through oikos

Our organizational guideline is a comprehensive roadmap that helps you to navigate through all that matters in and around oikos, building up on our constitution. The guideline offers an overview for everyone who wants to learn more about how we function and why we do what we do. Enjoy browsing through the summaries and overviews, and make sure to follow some of the links to relevant documents (eg. our field guides).

This guide elaborates how oikos works on a chapter, community and international level - and how these different layers are connected. We use the term oikos to describe the oikos community as a whole, oikos chapter(s) to talk specifically about 1 or a group of chapters and oikos International to talk about the umbrella organization with the international initiatives & the international team.

Overview: Your Red Thread through oikos

HOW WE AT OIKOS CHANGE THE WORLD

• In a Nutshell: What is oikos? -> the meaning behind our name, an introduction to oikos International, our global community & what transparency means to us

• Why We Do What We Do -> our mission, vision and how we got here

• What We Do to Change the World -> what happens in the chapters and how we tend to our community (Leadership Development, Transforming Education, Community-Centred Initiatives)

DRIVING CHANGE AS A NETWORK: HOW OUR GLOBAL COMMUNITY FUNCTIONS

• The Life of Our Chapters -> the lifecycle of our chapters, our regions, squads and communication

• Taking Decisions as a Community -> the legislative assembly, the legislative meeting and our constitution

• oikos International and the Community -> roles, responsibilities and how we support our chapters

• Our Alumni -> what happens when oikees graduate

THE OIKOS INTERNATIONAL TEAM – TENDING THE OIKOS COMMUNITY

• Working as a Team -> learn about our team structure, how we work together, when and where we meet, how we communicate, how we plan and trace our impact

• Operating oikos International -> how we do Human Relations, Team Development, Organisational Development, Legal Matters, Communication & Branding, IT & Data Management, Fundraising & Managing Financial Resources

STAYING CONNECTED – OUR WIDER NETWORK

• Our Advisors, Our Partners & The University Ecosystem -> how we connect with our network

• Glossary & FAQ -> tips and tricks for navigating this guideline

Do you have any feedback or find bugs/errors in the guideline? Anything we did not mention yet? We would love to read from you in our feedback/bug form!

Any further questions? Contact us! info@oikos-international.org www.oikos.world