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Dear Colleague,
Welcome to our April www.Community-Wealth.org newsletter. This month’s developments include:
- On March 31, we launched the Next System Project, a multi-year initiative designed to catalyze a wide-ranging discussion about the deep systemic challenges – economic, political, and social – we face as individuals, communities, and as a nation. The project is co-chaired by Democracy Collaborative Co-founder Gar Alperovitz and Senior Fellow Gus Speth. More than 350 leading scholars, activists, business people, labor leaders, and policymakers have endorsed the founding statement, including Leo Gerard, Sarita Gupta, Danny Glover, and Ai-jen Poo. View a video in which project supporters discuss the importance of building a new system and read the Next System Project’s initial report. You can read some of the press coverage about the launch in Grist, Huffington Post, YES! Magazine, Shareable, and Truthout.
- To continue to build momentum around the Next System conversation, we also invite you to join us on May 20 at 3 pm EDT for a free webinar, which will feature Gar and Gus as well as Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and CEO of PolicyLink; Juliet Schor, professor of sociology at Boston College; and Gerald Torres, professor of law at Cornell University.
- Join Democracy Collaborative Senior Fellow Marjorie Kelly as she moderates a free webinar, co-hosted by Project Equity, on April 28 at 2 pm EDT. The webinar, which highlights the organization's efforts to build a supportive ecosystem for worker cooperative development in the San Francisco Bay Area, follows the release of their new report, Business Conversions to Worker Cooperatives: Insights and Readiness Factors for owners and employees. Panelists include Rob Brown of the Cooperative Development Institute, Alison Lingane of Project Equity, Andrea Hurd of Mariposa Gardening & Design, and Blake Jones of Namaste Solar. Register here.
- Interest in community wealth building and transformative economic thinking continues to grow. I led a number of seminars for MBA students at Pinchot University/Bainbridge Graduate Institute as a designated “Change Agent in Residence,” along with India Pierce Lee of The Cleveland Foundation. Democracy Collaborative Co-founder Gar Alperovitz is quoted by New York Times regular contributor Mark Bittman in an op-ed on the need for systemic change and Research Director Steve Dubb and Gar wrote a blog article on the People and Places conference.
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
Executive Director, The Democracy Collaborative
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