A Learning Circle for Capital Stewards and Community Stewards
Hosted by
David Cobb, Cooperation Humboldt
Taj James & Ruben Hernandez, Full Spectrum Capital Partners
Dr Leslie Meehan, Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory
Michelle Vassel, Wiyot Tribal Administrator
Join our June learning circle to explore accelerating the use of integrated capital (philanthropic, government, and investment money) for large-scale social transformation in Northern California. How can Northern Californians help money flow like nurturing rain, not drought or flood? How can we create authentic relationships between Capital Stewards and Community Stewards? Can Northern California be a replicable model to scale integrated capital?
Northern California is already pioneering an emerging new economic paradigm known by several names: the solidarity economy, regenerative economy, sustainable wealth, and community wealth. This paradigm coordinates investing, lending, public, and donor capital together as integrated capital. Integrated capital can democratize the economy, advance racial equity, and finance climate justice projects using worker cooperatives, public banking, participatory budgeting, community land trusts, municipal energy, housing cooperatives, and other structures.
This learning circle is an opportunity for both community and capital stewards to share their governance, finance, & fundraising practices and get feedback from each other. The sessions will start with an orientation to integrated capital, continue with specific regional focusses on the North Coast, East Bay, and South Bay, and then wrap up with a dive into key themes and next steps.
Schedule June 2- 30
You’re invited! for one or more one-hour interactive learning circles with optional 30 minute continuing discussion.
June 2 3PM PT Integrated Capital Orientation Sign up HERE
Blessing – Ted Hernandez, Wiyot Tribal Chair
Taj James & Ruben Hernandez, Full Spectrum Capital Partners
Jasper Van Brakel, RSF Social Finance
Greg Wendt, CAFwd
Michelle Vassel & David Cobb, Cooperation Humboldt and Wiyot Tribe
June 9 3PM PT North Coast Circle Sign up HERE
Wiyot Tribe, Cooperation Humboldt, and Full Spectrum Capital Partners are creating the Gouts Lakawoulh Hiwechk Fund (“money that makes us well’ in Wiyot) and an Indigenous led Community Land Trust that will only invest and develop projects that are a) approved by the Wiyot people, and b) meet the criterion of a restorative economy. They have several projects in the pipeline: a carbon-neutral affordable housing project, several ecovillages, a Community Center/Artists Hub, and several housing cooperatives
June 16 3PM PT East Bay Circle Sign up HERE
Movement Generation, East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative, Canticle Farm, Urban Tilth, and Sogorea Te Land Trust have active integrated capital campaigns to hold communal real estate assets using different forms of finance structures. Featured projects:
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EBPREC (Noni Session, Annie McShiras, Ojan Mobedshahi)
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Movement Generation Capital Campaign (Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan
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Canticle Farm (Morgan Curtis)
June 23 3PM PT South Bay Circle Sign up HERE
The South Bay includes six rural to urban counties with an extraordinarily wide range of extreme wealth to poverty. This circle was an initial opportunity to connect more community and capital stewards in the area, focussing first on resilience hubs leaders:
- Integrated Capital South Bay Overview (Dr Leslie Meehan)
- Mushroom Farm (Ryan Rising) Distressed property held by family – exploring community plan
- Cool Block Mountain View (Neal Gorenflo) Neighborhood resilience program co-sponsored by Santa Clara County, Cities of Palo Alto & Mountain View, & Empowerment Institute
- Loma Prieta Community (Robin Porter) Community foundation as anchor hub for dual county & Red Cross asset funding, joint school & community land use agreement, fiscal sponsorship for 40+ groups, regranting disaster funds,…
June 30 3PM PT Harvest & Next Steps Sign up HERE
Join us to share your thoughts on our learning so far and where we could go next.