Neighborhood licensing
Get a license for your neighborhood
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Any neighborhood can license and implement the Bloc Captain™ program.
The license is free. It includes the workbook, meshcore templates, google doc templates, and handbook PDF.
What's included
Workbooks
Bloc Captain operations plan, Neighborhood workbook, Meeting guide, Meshcore deployment guide, CERT integration Plan, and Bloc Captain onboarding guide.
Print materials
The recruitment poster, A6 postcards, the block meeting poster and door hangers. All are press-ready, with your neighborhood name in place of ours.
Name
Permission to call your volunteers Bloc Captains and to use the mark on materials you print for your own neighbors.
Meshcore templates
We auto-generate six meshcore channels for your neighborhood, each with its own hash, ready for a captain to install without modification. The set includes the naming scheme, key rotation schedule and the handoff sheet your CERT, NERT or NET team needs.
Templates
Editable Google Doc versions of every workbook and handout, so you can adapt them to your own blocks. The set also includes a proposal template you can take to your neighborhood association to ask for the money to buy the repeaters.
Step one
Generate your license
You must be in-touch with your neighborhood's CERT/NERT/NET
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Step two
Download the materials
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What the license asks back
There are four conditions. None of them carry a cost. If your association can meet them, the license is yours.
Run the program non-commercially. Neighbors are not charged to take part and the materials are not resold.
Keep the mark intact. Replace the neighborhood name and leave the wordmark unchanged.
Contact your NET or CERT team before running any training. The program is designed to work alongside them.
Send a captain count once a year. That is the only reporting requirement.
Where it started
Irvington Ready
The program began in Irvington. This license standardizes it as a framework any neighborhood or municipality can adapt.
