Organizations, like living organisms have a life cycle. This would be a series which looks at the different needs of an organization in these stages: Birth – Emerging Leadership – Community Responsibility – Knowledge Keeper – Regeneration.
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Community Partner News, Accolades, Awards and Acknowledgements for May 2021
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Workshop 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.
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Learn 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.
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For everyone committed to thriving, healthy communities the upcoming Best Starts for Kids annual summit offers an opportunity to share your experiences and reflect on the challenges we’ve faced and overcome this past year. This year’s Summit features important keynotes from BSK and community leaders and 18 breakout sessions including several highlighting the work of COO and partners!
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The solidarity semester and solidarity is project are hosted by the Building Movement Project. This free five-week online training school was hosted for emerging youth leaders (aged 18-25) across the country who are ready to take action for social change and are looking for ways to get involved on campus, online, and in your communities.
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For everyone committed to thriving, healthy communities the upcoming Best Starts for Kids annual summit offers an opportunity to share your experiences and reflect on the challenges we’ve faced and overcome this past year. This year’s Summit features important keynotes from BSK and community leaders and 18 breakout sessions including several highlighting the work of COO and partners!
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Community Partner News, Accolades, Awards and Acknowledgements - April 2021
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COVID-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.
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Explore 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.
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The Department of Community and Human Services and the Department of Local Services are partnering on a study of concrete actions that King County can take to develop and retain affordable housing in Skyway-West Hill and North Highline. Read on for report details and how to provide feedback.
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Miigwetch, thank you, for sharing time with us and the guest speakers who joined during the workshops held in March to help build the communications capacities of our Learning Community. The workshop series will continue in April with resources, networks, and stories continuing to be shared. Check out April’s workshop topics and reach out with any questions or specific resources or issues of interest!
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What does a thriving community look like? COO partners are among those leading the region towards a more just and person-centered economic system that supports inclusive and thriving communities. Learn more about the work, and opportunities to learn and connect on new models for equity and economic thriving.
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Knowing where to get the financing for your worker cooperative can be tricky. The U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives recorded this webinar help. Find out your options and learn about the finance institutions that have experience with worker-owned businesses. Understand how to prepare your business for loans and grants.
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Community Partner News, Accolades, Awards and Acknowledgements in March 2021
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Communities 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!
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Communities of Opportunity is excited to announce several upcoming trainings, workshops, and events. See the list for an overview of upcoming events and RSVP today!
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