Eight participants leading teams and organizations building new and early stage circular economy programs or businesses joined this year’s inaugural 6-week capacity building pilot program to support projects focused on repair, reuse, composting, and keeping materials in use.
Read MoreNews, stories, and recent articles from and about COO partners in community for April 2026.
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Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreNews, stories, and recent articles from and about COO partners in community for October/November 2025.
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Read MoreWant 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!
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreStories and news from across the COO network for May 2024, as well as some of the impacts on systems and policy led by groups working to build community power and community health and well-being.
Read MoreStories and news from across the COO network as well as some of the impacts on systems and policy led by groups working to build community power and community health and well-being.
Read MoreStories and news from across the COO network as well as some of the impacts on systems and policy led by groups working to build community power and community health and well-being.
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