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Democracy Festival - Do not miss this Upcoming Event!!!
This Sat. Oct. 26th, from 2:30 - 4:15pm, ARC will participate in the first DMV Democracy Festival by conducting a Community Visioning process for residents throughout the region. Our democracy and our region need your input! For more information about the festival, which runs from 1-6pm at the Friendship Collegiate Academy (a Public Charter High School at 4095 MINNESOTA AVENUE NE, kitty-corner from the Minnesota Ave. Metro Station) please see: https://learninglife.info/demfest/
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Once you've done that, please register specifically for the Community Visioning here:
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Selected ARC Accomplishments in 2023/23
- At the invitation of the Northern Virginia based non-profit, Sustainable Scoop, ARC's Executive Director, Jim Schulman, participated in a workshop on Podcasting, and was interviewed by youth disability activist Edie Young in conjunction with Democracy Day.
- Supported the regional Community Wealth Building group to introduce legislation to the Council of the District of Columbia promoting the enhanced conversion of businesses undergoing ownership transition to worker-owned cooperatives.
- Supported the non-profit organization, Live Peace Tech Corporation's EcoPeace Academy, in offering an Ecopreneurship (Ecological Entrepreneurship) program for high school students in Montgomery County MD
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Welcome to ARC's Newsletter! If you would like to subscribe to this newsletter, please follow the "Manage your subscription" link at the bottom of this publication or write to us at contact@ARCdmv.org (If you desire to unsubscribe, see the link at the very bottom of this e-mail.)
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Here is a brief description of ARC's work:
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ARC works with local small businesses, cooperatives, and social enterprises to promote sustainable regional economic development, helping them obtain the goods and services they need to run their businesses from within the Washington Metro region. ARC is in the process of re-oreinting its work to encourage and undertake Community Visioning processes for and with neighborhoods and local governments throughout the area. ARC is currently partnering with another non-profit, the Coalition for an Inclusive Economy of Greater Washington, DC, to introduce the Localight rewards app to business associations, anchor institutions, and government agencies.
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If you or your organization would like to sponsor an upcoming issue, please contact Jim at JSchulman@ARCdmv.org
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MEET ARC'S NEWEST BOARD MEMBER:
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{click on the photo to see mini-biography}
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Imagine your independent business or cooperative featured here!
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Contact JSchulman@gmail.com to discuss advertising. In-kind compensation possible.
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Resources
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The late EM Risse worked and wrote extensively about human settlement patterns and many critical physical planning issues of our age, especially concerning land use. He laid out his ideas on his comprehensive website, EMRisse.com. ARC is currently helping to support the preservation of his powerful perspectives by keeping this website alive since his passing.
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| I encourage anyone who cares about the survival of humanity and/or planet Earth to read The Little Book and consider contributing to ARC's effort to keep Risse's website live online!: See the upper right-hand corner, here: https://arcdmv.org/ |
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