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Dear Colleague,
Welcome to our May www.Community-Wealth.org newsletter. This month’s developments include:
- We hope you will join us on June 5 at 1pm EST for a free webinar on “Measuring the Shared Value of Anchor Community Engagement,†hosted by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC). I will discuss the Anchor Dashboard, alongside Kim Zeuli of ICIC and Anthony Sorrentino from the University of Pennsylvania.
- In its newest Field Guide to Investing in a Regenerative Economy, the Capital Institute outlines Cleveland’s Evergreen model and provides overviews of the three enterprises: Evergreen Cooperative Laundry, Evergreen Energy Solutions, and Green City Growers. Also, in a DiversityInc interview, Orlando Santaella, a worker-owner of Evergreen Energy Solutions, talks about the transformative role that Evergreen has had on his life as part of a profile on University Hospitals’ procurement efforts with women- and minority-owned businesses.
- Last month in Montreal, at the Social Transformation through Social Innovation conference, hosted by Colloque International du CRISES, Democracy Collaborative co-founder Gar Alperovitz presented a keynote address on how public policy can support social innovation and community wealth building. Back in the United States, Gar discussed the merits of a guaranteed minimum income in this CNN article and appeared in a featured video on Upworthy, where he reiterated the importance of local and democratic ownership as a means to build wealth. Gar also questioned the assumption that economic growth is universally good in a recent Al Jazeera America article.
- Thanks to Gale Publishing, a free download of The Democracy Collaborative's chapter "Economic Democracy", featured in the new anthology Achieving Sustainability: Visions, Principles & Practices, is now available on community-wealth.org.
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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