Panel: Partnerships as Solidarity Work
Panel: Partnerships as Solidarity Work

Partnerships, Connections, and Relationships - Local Examples of Solidarity: how can we continue to hold relationships, bring new connections and relationships, and support each other's work? Local examples of solidarity. In this panel, hear from community leaders on how we can continue to hold relationships and build new connections to support each other's work. Panelists include Rebecca Berry from Skyway Coalition, Alejandra Tres from Comunidad Latina de Vashon, and Helen Shor-Wong from White Center Community Development Association. The panel is moderated by Yasmeen Perez.

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Whitney Johnsonhealing & connection, meeting the moment
Imagining and Creating the New Economy
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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Impact, BlogWhitney JohnsonSCOOP, blog, Cultivating Community, partner news, learning, capacity building, speaker series
2021 COO Learning Community Communications Capacity Building Workshops!
2021 COO Learning Community Communications Capacity Building Workshops!

Announcing COO Communications Capacity Building Workshop series! Headwater People will be providing technical assistance and a year-long series of workshops focused on building the communication capacities of community members and inviting community expertise and connection building into the shared spaces of the series.

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Whitney Johnsoncapacity building, communications, SCOOP, COO news, learning, blog
COO Learning Community workshop: Capital Campaigns 101
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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Learning Community, Resources, BlogWhitney Johnsonworkshop, learning, capacity building, SCOOP, resources, blog, organizational operations
Cultivating Community Transformation & Imagination
Cultivating Community Transformation & Imagination

Recapping the Cultivating Community Transformation discussion and reflections on the journey of COO — the difficulties of shifting systems and institutions to enter into more relational and authentic conversations with community, the early intentions of COO coalesce around shared values, listen to the leadership within communities, and the work to invest in and strengthen community partnerships that can inform and bring momentum to the policy and systems changes needed for a more equitable King County.

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Impact, Learning Community, BlogWhitney Johnsonblog, SCOOP, COO news, learning, tools, speaker series, community connection