Gathering #1: Oakland, CA
August 20-22, 2013
The Oakland Center, California State University, East Bay
Oakland, California
The Oakland Center, California State University, East Bay
Oakland, California
Welcome!
Thursday 8/15/2013
Dear colleagues,
We’re writing to welcome you to our year ahead together, as co-learners in the Learning/Action Lab for Community Wealth Building. We’re very much looking forward to getting to know you and your work at our first gathering in Oakland, CA, Aug. 20-22.
We’re excited about our coming time together and the potential for making a difference for Native people. In these difficult times, we’re all searching for new economic paths forward. Our challenge is nothing less than to create together a new economy – one that respects the Earth, builds for seven generations, and includes those previously excluded. Doing this means claiming ownership of enterprise – at the same time that we transform the very nature of ownership. Native values and Native voices are critically needed in this work. Working together, we believe this Learning/Action Lab can help us all unleash ways our communities can thrive amid disruption, and create resilience in the face of crisis.
The purpose of the Learning/Action Lab is simple: to work collaboratively to build community wealth for Native communities, by learning about how to operationalize the Community Wealth Building approach. The approach has been pioneered by The Democracy Collaborative, as well as by others. In brief, Community Wealth Building means creating local economic prosperity through democratizing wealth and ownership.
We look forward to seeing you this month, and working closely together over the coming year.
Warmest regards,
Ted Howard, Executive Director, The Democracy Collaborative
Marjorie Kelly, Project Director, Learning/Action Lab
Jill Bamburg, Bainbridge Graduate Institute, Curriculum Director, Learning/Action Lab
Dear colleagues,
We’re writing to welcome you to our year ahead together, as co-learners in the Learning/Action Lab for Community Wealth Building. We’re very much looking forward to getting to know you and your work at our first gathering in Oakland, CA, Aug. 20-22.
We’re excited about our coming time together and the potential for making a difference for Native people. In these difficult times, we’re all searching for new economic paths forward. Our challenge is nothing less than to create together a new economy – one that respects the Earth, builds for seven generations, and includes those previously excluded. Doing this means claiming ownership of enterprise – at the same time that we transform the very nature of ownership. Native values and Native voices are critically needed in this work. Working together, we believe this Learning/Action Lab can help us all unleash ways our communities can thrive amid disruption, and create resilience in the face of crisis.
The purpose of the Learning/Action Lab is simple: to work collaboratively to build community wealth for Native communities, by learning about how to operationalize the Community Wealth Building approach. The approach has been pioneered by The Democracy Collaborative, as well as by others. In brief, Community Wealth Building means creating local economic prosperity through democratizing wealth and ownership.
We look forward to seeing you this month, and working closely together over the coming year.
Warmest regards,
Ted Howard, Executive Director, The Democracy Collaborative
Marjorie Kelly, Project Director, Learning/Action Lab
Jill Bamburg, Bainbridge Graduate Institute, Curriculum Director, Learning/Action Lab
