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Wishes for 2025
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My brilliant entrepreneur friend, Gina Schaefer, founder of A Few Cool Hardware Stores, reminds us that there is no shame in asking the universe for what we need! And my visionary Business Coaching friend, Steve Kantor, emphasizes in his LifeBushido work that there is nothing better than putting things in writing to force us to better understand what those needs are.
Looking forward to 2025, therefore, my ask of you (yes YOU!) - as someone supportive of sustainable local & regional economic development - is for you to share with ARC your connections to communities that would benefit from Community Visioning and to foundations and anchor institutions which may be interested to support community-driven development. The Alliance for Regional Cooperation maintains that resource & people-sensitive, circular community economic development is sustainable development. Please help fund ARC's ongoing work by making a contribution today.
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Happy New World! -- Jim Schulman
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ARC's Ambitions for 2025:
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- To partner with local and regional governments, other non-profit organizations, and community anchor institutions to undertake Community Visioning in Washington, DC Metro area communities, and beyond
- To receive recognition in the press for ARC's work promoting community-ownership
- To educate local governments on the power of community-owned and cooperative economic development
- To recruit new Board Members interested in the challenge of building much more equitable circular regional economies
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Resources for change
- The DC area Community Wealth Building group meets monthly, both virtually and at in-person work sessions. For information see: https://groups.google.com/g/DCcommunitywealth/about
- The New Economy Coalition's webinar on the Solidarity Economy (organized by the local powerhouse and lender the Beloved Community Incubator which focuses on cooperative development in Washington Metro area immigrant communities) was energizing and well worth viewing as a recording!: Solidarity Economy Webinar 26 Oct 2024
- "Buy Local" economist, Michael Shuman's internet newspaper is a fantastic resource for building community wealth: The Main Street Journal
- Check out the Institute for Local Self-Reliance's (ILSR) virtual webinar on ways in which monopoly power relies on structural racism: Power-play-virtual-event.
- Jim Schulman interviewed by Disability Activist, Edie Young: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DYAnwSsurc
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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 at his comprehensive website, EMRisse.com. ARC supports 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 on ARC's website, here: https://arcdmv.org/ |
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