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PCC & Mondragon Online Course to Incubate Platform Co-ops

May 26, 2020 - Jul 20, 2020

The Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) at The New School

Community Wealth Summit

Jul 06, 2020 - Jul 10, 2020

Hosted by The Democracy Collaborative and Anchor Collaborative Network Where: The Community

Hosted by The Democracy Collaborative and Anchor Collaborative Network

Where: The Community Wealth Summit is a virtual place-based convening. Get in touch to find out if anyone else from your community has registered and we're happy to facilitate connections.

Why a Community Wealth Summit?

We're living through an era of extreme and widening inequity, unprecedented uncertainty, and rising political and social tension. In 2020, COVID-19 and the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery have thrown into sharper relief the fact that things aren't working in our society, particularly for Black and Indigenous folks and People of Color (BIPOC). People are rethinking how institutions, communities, and public health come together in cities and neighborhoods in new and previously unimaginable ways. We invite you to join The Democracy Collaborative (TDC) and the Anchor Collaborative Network (ACN) for a week of virtual learning and place-based organizing to rebuild local economies around shared ownership and racial justice. Given the immediate needs and opportunities facing communities, we are opening the biannual convening of the ACN beyond network members to other leaders who are convening, participating in, or planning efforts to expand equitable community ownership and power as an alternative approach to local economic development. Over the past 20 years, TDC and our collaborators have developed community wealth building as a systemic, place-based alternative to the "no-placeness" of extractive, corporate capitalism. At a time when a historic economic and public health crisis is widening the racial wealth gap and disproportionately affecting communities of color, community wealth building poses a viable alternative to the kind of trickle-down economic development practiced in cities across the country and world. This reimagining of local economies as owned by and operating for the benefit of communities, particularly those most marginalized and excluded from opportunity, is taking root in communities across the world in diverse and creative ways. The Community Wealth Summit will feature leading thinkers and practitioners in the community wealth building movement and highlight the work of our virtual host, the DC Community Anchor Partnership (DCAP). In addition to sharing practical lessons and examples, the Summit offers opportunities for participants to connect with others in their community around a shared vision of a flourishing and just society for all.

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Who Should Attend?

Community wealth building is a systemic approach to transforming local economies that involves a range of existing and novel institutions prioritizing, investing in, and advocating for the benefit of the most disadvantaged and marginalized within communities. The week-long arc of the Community Wealth Summit is designed for those working on or interested in supporting coordination of change across institutions, including anchor institutions, local governments, community groups, and funding institutions among many more. The summit is also designed to involve those partner institutions in targeted conversations and work sessions to discuss and imagine their sectors' roles and contributions now.

Suggested Programs For Partners

Recognizing the time commitment and short notice, the suggested programs for partners are streamlined to the following (all times are EDT): Monday, July 6 (Open to all)

1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. – Recovering from COVID-19 and systemic racism with community wealth building
3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. – The work underway in Washington, D.C. to shift how institutions build community wealth.

Tuesday, July 7: (Open to all)

1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. – A panel of minority-owned business and nonprofit leaders sharing how they see the DCAP initiative growing their impact.
2:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m. – A presentation and work session exploring how impact, metrics, and data intersect in community wealth building work. It will pick up the work of the ACN Strategies to Get to Systems Change and Collaborative Success Factor Working Groups to ground the discussions on data and metrics in the theories of transformation guiding our collective strategies.

Wednesday, July 8 and Thursday, July 9 | Stakeholder Spotlight Sessions: (Open to specified stakeholders)

Community Partners – Wednesday, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Local Government – Wednesday, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Funding Institutions – Thursday, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Anchor Institutions – Thursday, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

Friday, July 10: (Open to all)

1 p.m.-3 p.m. – Closing session to synthesize the week and meet in place-based groups to envision local possibilities.

Download the full agenda here

From Reaction to Response to Resilience

Jul 09, 2020 - Jul 09, 2020

Join us for a shared screening of The Response: How Puerto Rican

Join us for a shared screening of The Response: How Puerto Rican Are Restoring Power to the People - exploring the power of community resilience

What do we know about community’s ability to build resilience and what can we learn from others who have had to respond to a devastating crisis? What lessons do we need to learn now and share with each other to help our communities to move from Reaction to Response to Resilience during these challenging times? Join us for a shared screening and discussion of The Response: How Puerto Ricans Are Restoring Power to the People – a 30 minutes award-winning ‘micro-budget’ documentary exploring the network of mutual aid centers building collective resilience in Puerto Rico after the 2017 hurricane. The shared screening will be followed by a live Zoom discussion introduced by producer Tom Llewellyn. Together we will be exploring how we can collectively move from reacting to the current crisis to responding and adapting to our community's needs to building lasting resilience beyond COVID-19 that helps us emerge stronger as communities, as families and as ourselves. Introducing your hosts: This session is co-hosted by Shareable and Eden Project Communities and will be facilitated by William Wardlaw Rogers from True Story Insight. Shareable is a non-profit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation. You may know them here in the UK through their work on #MapJam events – helping communities discover their shared values and assets. Eden Project Communities are the people behind #TheBigLunch. We support and encourage people all over the UK to take positive actions that strengthen local connections and build stronger communities. Questions on how to join this free online event via Zoom? Once you signed up for this event we will send you the Zoom registration link. Check-out this video on how to join zoom events and contact us if you have any questions. Zoom meetings can be easily joined via your desktop browser (following the invite link) and are working best from a video and sound enabled desktop or laptop.

Rapid Responses For Communities To Address The Covid-19 “Housing Apocalypse”

Jul 14, 2020 - Jul 14, 2020

The Population Health Learning Collaborative will host a special 2-part webinar series

Stir to Action Festival – A Playground for the New Economy (2020)

Jul 14, 2020 - Jul 16, 2020

The Playground for the New Economy festival is back in Frome from

The Playground for the New Economy festival is back in Frome from 14-16 July 2020 and you can now buy your ticket or use our new Payment Plan to secure your place! ‍ Join us for three days of inspiring conversations, interactive workshops, idea surgeries, virtual reality experiences, live podcasts, sustainable food, craft beer, wild swimming, and live music.

Download last year's programme!

Description

Join us again for Stir to Action's Playground for the New Economy Festival in a beautiful green field in Somerset! The 2020 festival will be another unique three days of inspiring conversations, virtual reality experiences, live podcasts, interactive workshops, idea surgeries, live crowdfunding, sustainable food, craft beer, and, of course, live music! Tickets You can buy a three-day festival ticket, or one day tickets for 14,15, or 16 July. This year we're also offering a Four-Month Payment plan here, £31.25 a month. What to Expect? We'll announce the 2020 festival over the next few months, but here's the 2019 programme to see what to expect. What others said about 2019's festival “Really inspiring talks in a festival setting totally enabled ideas generation, creative thinking, and connections with colleagues in a way that another setting couldn’t offer.” Suzanne Perry, Power to Change "Just wanted to thank you for an awesome couple of days. Beautiful site, thoughtful, and nicely crafted and curated in every way possible; food, entertainment, sessions, and marketing.” Peter Holbrook, Social Enterprise UK. Festival Location Field725 is just outside Frome, Somerset. Cycling? Check Sustrans, entering BA11 4LJ in the ‘Search Our Mapping’ box. National Cycle Route 24 passes very close to the venue. Driving? If you use sat nav or a mapping service like Google Maps, enter BA11 4LJ. Public Transport? The nearest railway station is Frome, only 2 miles from the site. Frome has limited services and more regular trains run from Westbury or Castle Cary.

Glamping

There are some glamping tents available for booking. Get the full details of the options available on the Field 725 website. Please add them to your booking along with your ticket(s) below.