Connected, Informed, and Refreshed: First Community of Practice
Connected, Informed, and Refreshed: First Community of Practice

Sometimes it can be challenging for partners who work in direct service to take a step back, reflect on their work, take a moment to rest, and reignite their passion for why they do the work they do. Having an intentional opportunity to connect with others can make all the difference when it's built into the workday.

Sixteen people representing 8 of our funded Place Based and Cultural Community partners got that opportunity when they attended the Community of Practice gathering April 16. They came away feeling connected, informed, and refreshed.

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Nurturing Circular Innovation: The 2024 NextCycle WA Accelerator Academy
Nurturing Circular Innovation: The 2024 NextCycle WA Accelerator Academy

In its second year, the 2024 NextCycle WA Accelerator Academy is a capacity building opportunity for entrepreneurs committed to shifting supply chains, processes and business models to reduce waste, improve recycling, or find ways to reuse or remanufacture materials typically discarded as waste or trash. To create the conditions that support a just, sustained and strong shift towards a circular and generative economy and away from our current extractive systems, we need intention, collaboration, innovation and significant resources.  

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Commercial Affordability Summit: A Recap (Part 2)
Commercial Affordability Summit: A Recap (Part 2)

In this second part of the Commercial Affordability Summit recap, read about other current programs and models of commercial affordability and access to capital and support for small business and entrepreneurs: from those led by the City of Seattle such as Restored; to some of the most community rooted examples of commercial affordability projects.

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Commercial Affordability Summit: A Recap (Part 1)
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
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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Resources, Systems & Policiesinfocapacity building, tools, resources, learning, policy and systems
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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The Learning Community: Driving change through community power building

COO drives change through investing in the groups, models, infrastructure and connections that build community power — in COO’s Learning Community strategy, the initiative resources the infrastructure, sustained capacity, and spaces for strengthened connections for community organizations’ to build and pilot innovative work and operationalize equity.

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