Events

Swap-O-Rama-Rama is the world's largest volunteer produced clothing swap and DIY sewing workshops that teach participants, on every continent except Antarctica, how to extend the usefulness of their textile goods and forestalling entering the waste stream by repurposing, upcycling or just plain o' repairing. Swap-O-Rama-Rama has gathered for the grand-daddy of all clothing swaps at Maker Faires in San Mateo to repurpose 4000 lbs of textiles in 2 days. This MeetUp group is a way to keep spreading our mission year-round by teaching the community how to creatively reduce textile waste, recruit new volunteers and enjoy each others company and wisdom while helping the planet. HOW IT WORKS: If you have one, bring a bag of your CLEAN unwanted clothes and a bag to take your new found (or made) treasures home, a snack to share and a creative need to make a difference (Shareable.net will cover the entry fee!). Sewing machines, experienced coaches and inspiration provided. This event is part of the annual global #MakeSMTHNG Week campaign. Find out more: www.makesmthng.org

In July, 2018 the Carr Fire swept across 290,000 acres over two counties, destroying over 1,000 residences and causing physical and psychological damage on a massive scale. The Carr Fire was followed by the Delta Fire and then the Camp Fire, exponentially compounding the physical and emotional toll. The Northern California Resilience Program will address the immediate, pressing psychosocial needs stemming from the wildfires while also building local resilience and capacity to address future climate-related disasters and other major challenges facing our region.

The Sharing Economy Global Summit is the most comprehensive source of education, networking and information sharing for the global sharing economy. Startups and sharing economy industry groups from Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North Africa and North America will converge on London, the world's business hub, to learn strategies and tactics tested and vetted through real-world experiences.

The Global Summit offers programming and resources from experts focused on trust and safety, digital identity, screening, payments and fraud prevention, data privacy and cybersecurity, compliance and regulatory, legal and insurance, and product, technology and innovation. The content is designed to equip startups at all stages with effective risk management and legal strategies that enable them to succeed.

If you could learn first-hand from normal, every-day people just like you, who have already achieved financial independence and early retirement, would you do it? On March 7th, 2020 at the University of Cincinnati, we invite you to the EconoMe Conference. The EconoMe Conference has roots in the FIRE movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early) which is a lifestyle movement with the goal of financial freedom. We're bringing together leading experts from the FIRE movement for a 1-day event to guide us in questioning our assumptions about happiness, freedom, and prosperity through the lens of personal finance. More specifically, attendees will learn: - How to aggressively crush your student loan and other debt through resourcefulness. - How to use investments to make your money work harder than you ever could. - 7 ways to escape the rat race and create your own financial freedom. - How to feel the freedom of early retirement through intentional living. Attendees will also have the opportunity to network with and learn from hundreds of others in the FIRE movement, check out the new documentary Playing with FIRE, and enjoy a rocking after-party.

You already get that every business has risk. And you probably understand that identifying and mitigating risk can mean the difference between success and failure. This is especially true for innovative and disruptive marketplace startups. But with so much information out there, where do you start?

As the first and only conference focused on risk management and legal strategy for marketplace startups, the ecosystem has turned to the Marketplace Risk Management Conference because it’s the most comprehensive source of education, networking and information sharing. Join investors, founders, executives, lawyers and operators from marketplace startups in the sharing, gig, on-demand, peer-to-peer and collaborative economy.