Join COO's "Cultivating Community" 6 part series, designed to amplify and learn from the efforts of our community driven partnerships.
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In this first session, participants explore community-based strategies to build an equitable and regenerative economy, using the Just Transition framework.
In this second workshop, the focus is on the need to create and build new economic structures rooted in the experiences of our community.
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Workshop description: Illuminate what to consider when your communication starts local and then is shared more broadly. How does the strategy and tools change? What are the major thresholds, advantages, and challenges for different scales of audiences? Workshop focuses on scales of neighborhood, city, and county. Watch the recording here.
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Learn more about crafting effective messages and getting audiences with local government to meet your goals. Build relationships and reputations that facilitate generative partnerships and ways to influence public leadership and represent your community.
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COVID-19 has redefined nearly every process and task. This workshop will look at the digital tools for communicating at various levels (team members, clients, community members, funders) that can keep us socially connected while physically distant. These tools can be power campaigns even without pandemic restrictions.
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Explore steps that align storytelling and policy change. We follow a process from idea to advancing community-centered solutions through formal policy change. How to translate culturally specific perspectives for white audiences, while staying authentic to our own communities and cultures.
Read MoreHear about what goes into envisioning, planning, and carrying out a communication plan for fundraising and capital campaigns. Explore what networks are important and how to find and build relationships with crucial partners while keeping your community centered and connected through the process.
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Explore making appropriate and generative connections with media members. Ensuring your story is expressed in ways that promotes your mission and affirm your community. Exposing pitfalls and traps to avoid. Recording, press kit template and presentation slides available.
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Building intercommunity coalitions. How to be in solidarity with those communities under most threat, even when not your own. Starting and maintaining alliances during COVID-19. Workshop featuring guest speaker Colleen Echohawk-Hayashi.
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