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Dear Colleague,
As we approach the end of the year, all of us at The Democracy Collaborative would like to wish you and yours a happy holiday season and thank you for your interest in our work throughout 2015. This has been a year of tremendous growth for the Collaborative and more generally for the community wealth field across the nation.
This month alone, we released a new healthcare white paper co-authored with a Vice President of Kaiser Permanente, launched the Next System Project’s Teach-In initiative, and began planning for a New York City convening focused on our most recent report, Cities Building Community Wealth.
We are also encouraged to see community wealth building gaining traction across the continent. Only last month, for example, the City of Toronto, adopted a Poverty Reduction Strategy that includes a call for systemic change through strategies like community benefits agreements, a City social procurement policy, and cooperative development. Read more about Toronto’s prosperity initiative on our blog.
From city governments, to major healthcare providers, to local resident organizations, communities across the country and around the world are increasingly pioneering strategies that prioritize equity and inclusion, broad-based ownership, resilient local economies, and local participation. We look forward to another year of collaboration and innovation in the field.
As always, we continue to add new links, articles, reports, and other materials to the site. Look for this symbol *NEW* to find the most recent additions.
Ted Howard
President & Co-Founder, The Democracy Collaborative
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