News, Resources and Updates from COO community partners - updated March 2022
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To support continuous improvement and learning for equitable contracting work COO sought to document where and how COO has been successful in creating more equitable procurement processes, particularly in the area of contracting, and what gaps continue to exist. The Equitable Contracting Report here, summarized a review of King County COO Community Service Agreements and Consultant Contract processes, best practices from the field, and themes from key informant interviews with COO community partners.
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Share your thoughts for a Native Neighborhood! The Indigenous Seattle Working Group and Na'ah Illahee Fund have been collaborating on a community survey that is made by and for Native and Indigenous Peoples who live, work, visit, or get services in Seattle. This survey is the first step toward building a Native Neighborhood that can be anything from a single building to multiple blocks.
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News, Resources and Updates from COO community partners - updated March 2022
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News, Resources and Updates from COO community partners - updated February 2022
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This virtual showcase highlighted the work of five rooted community groups who worked to uplift the experiences of communities most impacted by COVID-19 and the culmination of their community-led data collection and storytelling projects conducted over 2021.
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2021 Community Development Lunch & Learns series’ recordings are now viewable. These alternating deep dives on specific topics and issues of equitable community development, offered opportunities for participants to ask questions and discuss their projects with peers and community development experts.
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Best Starts for Kids and COO is in the midst of planning for our work in 2022 and beyond — currently our 2022 budget and the implementation plan guiding our work in the next phase of the Best Starts levy is within the King County council process - want to understand more about what we’re doing and how this impacts you as a community partner? Watch our November 5th informational session for partners here!
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Videos and recap from COO’s September 2021 Meeting the Moment gathering, Community Conversations on Healing, Advocacy and Building the Future We Want.
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In this workshop trainers do a deep dive into capital campaign readiness and the importance of organizational capacity for effective capital campaign fundraising. Regardless of where you are on your campaign journey, if you know a capital campaign is on the horizon, taking steps now to build out your fundraising capacity is critical to your organization’s long-term success.
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What does it look like to build the new economy - new ways of being in relationship to money, work, land, and one another? There are communities re-envisioning and shifting how they work and building new models and innovations that answer these questions. As part of our July speaker series event, Cultivating Community Imagination: The New Economy, we heard from three community leaders re-imagining what land ownership and our local economies can look like - and creating space for these different ways and models to emerge.
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Community Partner News, Accolades, Awards and Acknowledgements - August 2021
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This workshop provides a high-level overview of capital campaign fundraising concepts and terms including campaign feasibility study, prospect research, gift pyramids, and other fundraising activities within the context of a capital campaign. Also included is a review typical capital campaign timelines and using a community-centric fundraising lens, an exploration of fundraising strategies that can leverage broader support for an organization’s vision and mission by centering on a shared vision for the future.
Read MoreCommunity Passageways’ mission is to “create alternatives to incarceration for youth and young adults by rebuilding our communities through committed relationships centered on love, compassion, and consistency.”
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Recapping the Cultivating Community Transformation discussion and reflections on the journey of COO — the difficulties of shifting systems and institutions to enter into more relational and authentic conversations with community, the early intentions of COO coalesce around shared values, listen to the leadership within communities, and the work to invest in and strengthen community partnerships that can inform and bring momentum to the policy and systems changes needed for a more equitable King County.
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Join COO's "Cultivating Community" 6 part series, designed to amplify and learn from the efforts of our community driven partnerships.
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In this first session, participants explore community-based strategies to build an equitable and regenerative economy, using the Just Transition framework.
Communities of Opportunity partner spotlight: In 2020, after years of relationship-building and community-led design, the Food Innovation Network (FIN), a program of Global to Local, opened Spice Bridge to enhance the local food system, increase access to healthy and culturally specific foods and support local food businesses in South King County.
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June dates for Learning Community opportunities and resources: Real Estate 102, Communications Capacity Building, and the Role of Data in Racism as a Public Health Crisis. Register now!
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Community Partner News, Accolades, Awards and Acknowledgements for May 2021
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