Use it, improve it, be credited for it
A grower adds local knowledge, a carer corrects a record, a reviewer grades a claim. The cooperative projects machinery makes that work visible—logged, credited, and compensated on fair terms. Consumption becomes contribution, and contribution becomes recognised equity.
If you cannot measure it, you cannot fund it
Social problems are funded on evidence, and a problem that cannot be counted cannot be priced into a grant application. Local infrastructure can produce anonymised community statistics—real numbers about real need—without exposing any individual. That is how local experience becomes fundable policy rather than anecdote.