Immortal Glory

The Hundred

One hundred people, present at the beginning.

$1,000 a year Membership dues. One hundred seats.

Dues are not an investment. They do not buy equity, ownership, profit participation, revenue share, or any financial return of any kind. They are not tax deductible.

You are joining a membership. Not buying a stake in a business.

We would rather you knew that in the first thirty seconds than the last. There is no equity here to buy — not for you, and not for us.

The first hub

Land, structures, gardens, power, and the first business standing on it. This is what dues are for, and it does not exist yet.

There is only one beginning

Everyone who comes after arrives to something that already exists. The buildings will be standing. The systems will be running. The arguments will have been settled.

This group is the only one that will have been present for the founding — not told about it afterward, but inside it while it happened, watching decisions get made and helping shape them.

That is what a seat is. Not a position in a company. A place at the beginning of one.

How it is held

You may see the phrase a collectively owned company in our materials. To be precise about what that means: no human being owns Immortal Glory. Ownership is held permanently by an irrevocable trust that exists to protect it. What is collective is the stewardship, not the ownership.

There is no equity, no exit, and nothing to sell — including for the twelve.

The trust's beneficiary is the association. The association pays no one and distributes nothing to individuals. It exists for the purpose, not for profit.

The trust also has a protector — a role that exists to hold the trustees accountable to its purpose. Two of the twelve serve as trustees. A third serves as protector, and his job is to watch them.

The operating company is a for-profit business, and its purpose is also fixed: profits are channelled back into growing the business and into funding the mission — establishing real physical communities and creative hubs. They do not leave the structure.

This is the part worth reading twice. It is the answer to the question most people are too polite to ask, which is what the twelve stand to gain. The answer is the same thing you do. Nobody can cash out, because there is nothing to cash out of.

Where the money goes

Dues fund the buildout. Specifically:

Dues are held by My Brother's Keeper Private Membership Association and kept separate from Immortal Glory retail revenue. Members receive [quarterly] reporting on how funds were deployed.

What a seat includes

Why the twelve

You are being asked to believe two things at once: that this is worth building, and that we are the people to build it.

The second is the harder ask, and it deserves more than a mission statement.

Twelve seats at the roundtable, each with a function.

Many at the table are married. Partners who want a voice in the discussion have one. The couple deliberates, and the seat holder casts one vote for the household.

The terms

Ways to pay

Founding rate, locked
The first hundred pay $1,000 a year for as long as they remain current. Later rounds pay the rate at the time they join. Your rate is never raised.
No refunds
Dues are non-refundable in full or in part.
Hardship
Members may request a payment pause of up to 60 days, in writing, once per term. Payments resume at the end of the pause and the seat is held.
If you leave or stop paying
Remaining payments stop. Prior payments are not returned. The seat is released to the next person on the waiting list, who joins at the full rate. Seat numbers are reissued — there are always exactly one hundred.
Paid work is separate from membership
The operating company sometimes engages members as independent contractors, on merit, at market rates, for work performed. Membership does not entitle anyone to that work and does not make it more likely. Contractor pay is compensation for labour and carries no profit participation.
Who awards the work
[Name the process. Members advise on what gets built and some members are paid to build it — state who decides engagements and that no one votes on their own. A sentence here prevents a real dispute later.]
Renewal
[Auto-charge or manual — must be decided. If auto, this needs explicit consent language, a reminder before each charge, and a stated cancellation path.]
If we do not reach one hundred
[Your answer.]
If the hub is delayed
[Your answer.]

Apply for a seat

One hundred seats. We read every application and we do not accept everyone — a body that votes together should be chosen, not just collected.

Tell us who you are and what you would bring. If it is a fit, we will reach out with the member agreement, the plans, and a conversation before anyone pays anything.

Submitting this form does not obligate you to anything and does not reserve a seat. Nothing is charged until you have the full member agreement and choose to accept it. See our privacy policy.