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2021 Community Development Lunch & Learn series

2021 Community Development Lunch & Learns series’ recordings are now viewable. These alternating deep dives on specific topics and issues of equitable community development, offered opportunities for participants to ask questions and discuss their projects with peers and community development experts.

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Communities of Opportunity Info Session Recording and Updates - November 2021

Best Starts for Kids and COO is in the midst of planning for our work in 2022 and beyond — currently our 2022 budget and the implementation plan guiding our work in the next phase of the Best Starts levy is within the King County council process - want to understand more about what we’re doing and how this impacts you as a community partner? Watch our November 5th informational session for partners here!

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Capital Campaign Readiness and Organizational Capacity workshop

In this workshop trainers do a deep dive into capital campaign readiness and the importance of organizational capacity for effective capital campaign fundraising. Regardless of where you are on your campaign journey, if you know a capital campaign is on the horizon, taking steps now to build out your fundraising capacity is critical to your organization’s long-term success.

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Imagining and Creating the New Economy

What does it look like to build the new economy - new ways of being in relationship to money, work, land, and one another? There are communities re-envisioning and shifting how they work and building new models and innovations that answer these questions. As part of our July speaker series event, Cultivating Community Imagination: The New Economy, we heard from three community leaders re-imagining what land ownership and our local economies can look like - and creating space for these different ways and models to emerge.

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COO Learning Community workshop: Capital Campaigns 101

This workshop provides a high-level overview of capital campaign fundraising concepts and terms including campaign feasibility study, prospect research, gift pyramids, and other fundraising activities within the context of a capital campaign. Also included is a review typical capital campaign timelines and using a community-centric fundraising lens, an exploration of fundraising strategies that can leverage broader support for an organization’s vision and mission by centering on a shared vision for the future.

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