Posts tagged capacity building
Social Movement Technologies - Storytelling to Inspire & Activate training intensive

Due to its popularity and strong feedback, SMT is offering this intensive for the third time. The training consists of five sessions that cover the key elements of narrative, storytelling, and visuals, with a focus on activating sharing in an ethical, trauma-informed manner. It also includes topics like building an effective amplification network, partnering with micro-influencers, and the best combination of tools for documenting stories.

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Coming Soon! COO-NextCycle WA capacity building program

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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Commercial Affordability Summit: A Recap (Part 1)

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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Policy kits to empower tenants within their communities available now

DPN has released three new policy kits on empowering tenants through increasing housing supply and enshrining tenant protections in state and local law. DPN has also released a Deliberative Democracy Processes policy kit, an open resource for legislators, advocates, journalists, and citizens to learn how states can utilize citizen deliberation models to break gridlock, reduce special-interest capture, and build consensus

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Structural Racism and Public Health: How to Talk to Policymakers and Community Members

A recording of the recent Public Health Communication Collaborative webinar, Structural Racism and Public Health: How to Talk to Policymakers and Community Members, is now available. Presenters shared key research findings on framing policy and public-oriented communications about structural racism—an unjust system of laws, procedures, and beliefs that sustain racial and ethnic inequality—and public health

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Equity Impact Investments: Igniting Partnership for Inclusive Prosperity

Through this program, New Growth Innovation Network (NGIN), and its partners will deliver meticulously crafted capacity building courses and tailored hands-on technical assistance to fortify partnerships. These offerings are rooted in the understanding that creating enduring partnerships between economic development organizations and community-based organizations are essential to achieving lasting, equitable, and inclusive economic development strategies and funding coalitions.

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Finance Workshops: Oversight, Planning and Management

COO hosted a series of two workshops to learn tools and practices around financial planning and sustainability. These workshops offered case studies on how organizations are using financial information and long-range planning to make strategic decisions about their visionary work, and offered tools and strategies to create financially sustainable and health organizations.

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Social Change Ecosystem Map

The Social Change Ecosystem Map is a framework that can help individuals, networks, and organizations align with social change values, individual roles, and the broader ecosystem. It has two components: shared values embodied in the yellow circle in the middle; ten roles that people and organizations often show up in when they are participating in social change efforts.

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Turning Towards Each Other: A Conflict Workbook from Movement Generation

Individuals in community-building and social movement work can experience experience difficult interpersonal conflict with comrades or colleagues, too. This workbook offers exercises for self and group exploration to build collective self-awareness and conflict resilience. These tools will help resolve interpersonal tensions and increase the capacity to work together to dismantle oppressive systems and create regenerative ones.

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