Strengthen your foundational facilitation practices with creative, embodied, and visual tools to support meeting and group processes and decision-making. Applications open February 10.
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Si usted está llevando a cabo (o soñando con) un proyecto que mantenga los materiales en uso, genere una economía comunitaria o ayude a vecinos a compartir recursos, este programa podría ser una excelente oportunidad. ¡La solicitud se abre el 14 de enero!
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A pilot program that offers skills, tools, guidance, and early funding to support projects focused on repair, reuse, composting, and keeping materials in use in King County. The program is designed to make it easier for more people to access and participate in what’s known as the circular economy. Applications open January 14!
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Have a question about financial planning, management, or reporting? Contact Coach Amy through the financial coaching hotline and get answers & resources for FREE!
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The Communities of Opportunity (COO) Learning Community (LC) & alterNative invites you to participate in a learning circle series designed to help community leaders, staff, and board members learn how to strategically and intentionally leverage governance and leadership to transform how power flows, how systems are structured, and how culture is felt at the organizations.
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At a recent webinar, local nonprofit leaders share what they learned
Read MoreEn un seminario en línea, lideres locales de organizaciones sin fines de lucro comparten lo que aprendieron.
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Learn about the keynotes, activities, workshops, and speakers at the Convening so you can plan your day.
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We’ve compiled a list of opportunities for you to strengthen your knowledge of digital security and how to protect community data and your organizational infrastructure. You may also be able to get financial support for the sessions that charge a fee. Learn how!
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Capacity building support is available to COO & Best Starts for Kids contracted/funded organizations - AND - support is available via the COO Learning Community for groups working in alignment with COO’s mission, vision and values who are not currently funded.
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For the past six months, the COO Learning Community has been exploring cooperatives, or co-ops, as an alternative and innovative economic development strategy.
Read MoreInterested in strengthening your storytelling, facilitation or narrative strategy skills? These self-guided courses from Storytellers for Change can support you in amplifying the impact of your narrative change and storytelling work. Support is available, while resources last, from the COO Learning Community to register in one of three programs.
Read MoreA new collaboration between Communities of Opportunity (COO) and Seattle Foundation is yielding $200,000 more funding for the foundation’s Neighbor to Neighbor (N2N) grant and technical assistance program – and strengthening our relationship. The next round of funding closes October 30.
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Want to stay up-to-date on job fairs, trainings and other career and professional development resources? COO is launching a new newsletter to share out job and workforce related resources, events and opportunities!
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In its second year, the 2024 NextCycle WA Accelerator Academy is a capacity building opportunity for entrepreneurs committed to shifting supply chains, processes and business models to reduce waste, improve recycling, or find ways to reuse or remanufacture materials typically discarded as waste or trash. To create the conditions that support a just, sustained and strong shift towards a circular and generative economy and away from our current extractive systems, we need intention, collaboration, innovation and significant resources.
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Community members come together to learn and share about community wealth building in a workshop led by People’s Economy Lab and The Democracy Collaborative.
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Reflections from the December All-Partner Convening - a day devoted to connection, learning, sharing, and restoration.
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As Sarah transitions into an advisory role to the Learning Community from her COO Capacity Building design consultant lead role, COO reflects on a few of the things developed and delivered with Sarah’s leadership. Read more…
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In this second part of the Commercial Affordability Summit recap, read about other current programs and models of commercial affordability and access to capital and support for small business and entrepreneurs: from those led by the City of Seattle such as Restored; to some of the most community rooted examples of commercial affordability projects.
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With the Commercial Affordability Summit convening, COO sought to share what we learned from the pilot project, which concluded in 2022, and provide a platform for learning about additional strategies, models and programs that are currently being designed and implemented in support of an equitable and thriving small businesses environment and greater economic justice.
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