Dear Colleague, Welcome to our May www.Community-Wealth.org e-newsletter. This month we have a number of updates and features to bring you: Today, May 8 from 4-6 pm (eastern) in Cambridge, MA, The Democracy Collaborative and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT present the findings of our recent case study: The Anchor Mission: Leveraging the Power …
Nov 5th NYC/31st Annual Schumacher Lectures
The Thirty-first Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures will be held Saturday, November 5, 2011 from 10am-5pm. Speakers are Gar Alperovitz, Juliet Schor, and a Special Panel “Voices of Today’s Youth: Occupy Wall Street and the Call for a New Economy.” The location is the Community Church of New York, 40 …
Creating Economic Solutions-Transforming Communities
4th Annual Statewide Conference New York Coalition of CDFIs “Creating Economic Solutions-Transforming Communities” May 16th- 17th, 2011| Crowne Plaza Hotel | Albany, NY The Steering Committee of the New York Coalition of CDFIs and the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions invite you to join us for the major …
A Future to Celebrate
by Michelle Colussi I was dragged kicking and screaming to a Transition Town Workshop in late 2008. I was convinced there was nothing for me to learn there about community development (and terrified of showing everybody how little I knew about Peak Oil and climate change.)
A Future to Celebrate
Vol 8, No 4 D This, the second i4 news release, describes the efforts of the Transition Town movement to Inspire, Innovate, Incite, and Invent ways of life that depend on little or no fossil fuels … A Future to Celebrate by Michelle Colussi I was dragged kicking and screaming …
CDCU Institute Training CUs in Service to Underserved: Deadline Extended
Federation Training Credit Unions in Service to Underserved: 2010 CDCU Institute™ Registration Extended to July 29 (July 22, 2010 – New York , NY ) The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (Federation) has announced a deadline extension for registration to its premier professional development program, the CDCU Institute™, …