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.
Read MoreVideos and recap from COO’s September 2021 Meeting the Moment gathering, Community Conversations on Healing, Advocacy and Building the Future We Want.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreThis 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 MoreRecapping 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.
Read MoreJoin COO's "Cultivating Community" 6 part series, designed to amplify and learn from the efforts of our community driven partnerships.
Read MoreIn this first session, participants explore community-based strategies to build an equitable and regenerative economy, using the Just Transition framework.
In this second workshop, the focus is on the need to create and build new economic structures rooted in the experiences of our community.
Read MoreWorkshop description: Illuminate what to consider when your communication starts local and then is shared more broadly. How does the strategy and tools change? What are the major thresholds, advantages, and challenges for different scales of audiences? Workshop focuses on scales of neighborhood, city, and county. Watch the recording here.
Read MoreLearn more about crafting effective messages and getting audiences with local government to meet your goals. Build relationships and reputations that facilitate generative partnerships and ways to influence public leadership and represent your community.
Read MoreCOVID-19 has redefined nearly every process and task. This workshop will look at the digital tools for communicating at various levels (team members, clients, community members, funders) that can keep us socially connected while physically distant. These tools can be power campaigns even without pandemic restrictions.
Read MoreExplore steps that align storytelling and policy change. We follow a process from idea to advancing community-centered solutions through formal policy change. How to translate culturally specific perspectives for white audiences, while staying authentic to our own communities and cultures.
Read MoreHear about what goes into envisioning, planning, and carrying out a communication plan for fundraising and capital campaigns. Explore what networks are important and how to find and build relationships with crucial partners while keeping your community centered and connected through the process.
Read MoreExplore making appropriate and generative connections with media members. Ensuring your story is expressed in ways that promotes your mission and affirm your community. Exposing pitfalls and traps to avoid. Recording, press kit template and presentation slides available.
Read MoreBuilding intercommunity coalitions. How to be in solidarity with those communities under most threat, even when not your own. Starting and maintaining alliances during COVID-19. Workshop featuring guest speaker Colleen Echohawk-Hayashi.
Read MoreCommunities of Opportunity, in collaboration with the BIPOC Executive Director (ED) Coalition of Washington State brings you the opportunity to study and practice with Norma Wong in a cohort series of five sessions this Spring. The sessions will be for BIPOC-identifying Executive Directors only and we ask that participants commit to attending all the sessions. Register here!
Read MoreFrom an analysis of healthcare related administrative records, the data visualization below shows how patterns of residential movement (moving from one place to another) change over time, location, and by type of insurance coverage
Read MoreResources and tips to support inclusive and equitable online meetings and online meeting facilitation.
Read MoreCOO + Resource Media Zoom Operations Training Resources and Recording from April 23, 2020
Read MoreBest Starts for Kids Community Engagement Survey! Best Starts for Kids is community driven which means your input, as community voice, is critical. Best Starts strong commitment to equity requires participation by community members to achieve the kind of community we want to build together. Let us know your thoughts on BSK and the work for greater equity and healthier communities in King County!
