Transform Finance Briefing: Investing in Employee Ownership

In our new briefing, Transform Finance outlines various stages that investors may find themselves in exploring the space: understanding the landscape of EO funds, identifying the investment approaches of different funds, and comparing and evaluating the potential impact of funds. We provide recommendations for these stages as well as overall considerations to maximize impact and build the field. At the core of our recommendations is an analysis of 53 funds that finance EO in the United States and Canada, made across investment approaches, target financial returns, size, geographic focus and impact.

ResourcesinfoAugust 15, 2024learning, resources, economic opportunity, economy, small businesses

City of Seattle - M5 Creative Building Workspaces program

To attract, grow, and keep production teams in Seattle. In partnership with Seattle Center, the City is activating the M5 Creative Building (401 Mercer Street) for temporary use for film production and other creative production office space, conferences, workshops, controlled events, and productions.

ResourcesinfoJune 5, 2024resources, economy, creative, art

Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle - Community Support Program

ULMS Community Support program was created to make sure that young people who end up in the juvenile system are provided with the stability they need to lead safe, healthy, and productive lives

ResourcesinfoApril 25, 2024resources, workforce, public safety, education, youth

We Make the Future Action - communications & messaging resources

Using campaign messaging that acknowledges how race plays a role in our politics, we are working to create a better future for every one of us regardless of the color of our skin, our genders, or how we pray. We Make the Future Action (WMTFA) serves as an implementation home for the Race Class Narrative (RCN) and other empirically backed messaging.

ResourcesinfoFebruary 28, 2024communications, resources, narrative

Center for Economic Democracy: Economics for Emancipation

Economics for Emancipation (E4E) is a seven-module introductory curriculum with interactive and participatory workshops. It offers a deep critical dive into the current political economic system, exploration of alternative economic systems, and dynamic tools to dream and build the economy that centers care, relationship, and liberation.

ResourcesinfoFebruary 28, 2024economy, learning, capacity building, resources

Aorta: Facilitate for Freedom trainings

Through dynamic storytelling and real meeting examples, this training introduces two of AORTA’s facilitation pedagogy principles: remove barriers to full participation and the practice of principled disagreement. Attending the Fundamentals training also gives you access to our Skill Up! Intensive.

ResourcesinfoFebruary 28, 2024resources, facilitation, learning

FUNDAMENTALS TRAININGS – SPRING 2024

Justice Funders is proud to launch a new series of trainings that will cover the fundamentals of philanthropic transformation using various movement principles and tools.

ResourcesinfoFebruary 28, 2024capacity building, philanthropy, learning, resources

Justice Funders - LIBERATORY GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

This community of practice is an opportunity for mid-level program staff, senior staff, and board members working within philanthropic institutions, in roles where they have influence to shape organizational culture and practices, to explore a new model for thinking about governance, leadership, and power. Through six bi-monthly three-hour virtual sessions and 1-1 coaching between May 2024 – March 2025, participants will be invited to reflect on their relationship with power and how they use it in their organization.

ResourcesinfoFebruary 28, 2024resources, capacity building, democracy, philanthropy

Hummingbird THE NEST Guaranteed Income applications are open!

Application has reopened for the Nest Guaranteed Income! Are you Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Alaska Native, or Indigenous to Turtle Island? Do you live in King County, Pierce County, or on the Tulalip Reservation? You may be eligible to receive $1250 a month throughout your pregnancy until your child's third birthday!

ResourcesinfoJanuary 23, 2024resources, health

Arc of King County Teen Scene

The Arc of King County is excited to announce TEEN SCENE, a brand new monthly meet-up group for teens age 13-17 with intellectual and developmental disabilities

ResourcesinfoJanuary 3, 2024resources, youth, community connection

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