This session explores different scales of collective ownership, anti-displacement, and cultural preservation models from yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Collective, Wa Na Wari, and Africatown. Panelists discuss community ownership of arts spaces, economic opportunity, and housing.
Read MorePanelists from Community2Community, Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition, Puget Sound Sage, and the City of Kent will discuss how they work towards climate justice and how we build towards a just transition.
Read MoreIn this session, Seattle Urban Native Nonprofits (SUNN) and Against the Current Consulting discuss their work to build community power and develop an indigenous policy framework, while engaging with participants on issues of policy and power.
Read More(Re) Inventando una Transición Colectiva: Antes, Durante y Después de COVID-19 Esta sesión destacará historias de algunas mujeres y organizaciones que están respondiendo activamente a sus comunidades y reinventando una transición colectiva basada en las fortalezas, la autodeterminación y el bienestar de todas y todos. Representantes de WA Dream Coalition, Alimentando al Pueblo y Pueblos Originarios (ñuu savi) nos contaran acerca de los impactos que la pandemia ha tenido en sus comunidades y de sus esfuerzos para construir un futuro equitativo y justo en el que todos hacemos parte.
Read MoreParticipatory and democratic organizing examples from local and regional democratic and membership-based organizations. What does it mean to represent and center community within organizational structures, including governance, shared leadership and decision-making?
Read MoreSean Goode (CHOOSE 180) in conversation with Leonie Smith (East Point Peace Academy), exploring our how movement actions can support healing and what grace looks like in the context of restorative justice work and healing from the trauma of systemic racism. This session was facilitated by Jackie St. Louis.
Partnerships, Connections, and Relationships - Local Examples of Solidarity: how can we continue to hold relationships, bring new connections and relationships, and support each other's work? Local examples of solidarity. In this panel, hear from community leaders on how we can continue to hold relationships and build new connections to support each other's work. Panelists include Rebecca Berry from Skyway Coalition, Alejandra Tres from Comunidad Latina de Vashon, and Helen Shor-Wong from White Center Community Development Association. The panel is moderated by Yasmeen Perez.
Read MoreWhat 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.
Read MoreAnnouncing COO Communications Capacity Building Workshop series! Headwater People will be providing technical assistance and a year-long series of workshops focused on building the communication capacities of community members and inviting community expertise and connection building into the shared spaces of the series.
Read MoreCommunity Partner News, Accolades, Awards and Acknowledgements - August 2021
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 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.”
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 MoreThe above tutorial guides participants through how to use the Foundant reporting platform for COO partners.
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 MoreCommunity Partner News, Accolades, Awards and Acknowledgements - June 2021
Read MoreCommunities 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.
Read MoreJune 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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