Are you an organization looking for financial stability in a time of chaos?  Are you an organization with broad community support for your mission and services?  Looking for ways to your social capital into financial capital? Do you have a capital project on your organization's plans, such as buying your building, starting a housing project, a renovation and expansion – that has been too long in the waiting? We may have the solution!

Alberta Community and Co-operative Association (ACCA), along with Tapestry Community Capital, is hosting a one-hour webinar to introduce organizations to the concept of community bonds and how they can benefit Alberta based co-operatives, not-for-profit organizations, and charities who are looking to raise funds for capital projects, including buildings or major equipment in the next twelve months.

Through this webinar, you will learn about social financing options that can help you raise capital in a way that generates both a social and financial return. In many cases, these bonds are eligible as RRSP/TFSA investments, a great vehicle for people wanting to make a local social and financial investment.

Who should participate: Alberta based co-ops, not-for-profit organizations, and charities who are raising capital in the next 12 months. 

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RESISTANCE & REVOLUTION FOR A JUST GREEN RECOVERY

London Regional Social Forum

The London Regional Social Forum takes up themes such as:

• Economic justice / Anti-capitalist action / Actions to counter neoliberal policymaking
• Anti-colonialism / Anti-imperialism
• Social justice and political equality
• Environmental justice
• Action training

The opening event will be a socially-distanced outdoor icebreaker, and the rest of the programming will be delivered via Zoom.

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If we were to design a feminist economy around our own feminist values, desires, and visions, what might it be like?

• What would this economy value? Focus on? Call a success?
• What would it feel like to live here, create community here, build a family here?
• If you could design a feminist economy around your own values, desires, and visions, what might it be like?
• Over the course of two workshops, participants will explore a few practices of worldbuilding and visioning to help us envision the feminist future.

Workshop One: Worldbuilding the Feminist Economy

Participants will start with the big picture. In the first workshop, participants will build a larger, more “macro” world, the world in which feminist enterprises work with each other, along with communities, governments (maybe), society, families, and other groups of people, as well as the flora, fauna, and physical matter of our planet, to create a world devoid of oppression where everyone and everything can flourish. With this workshop, we’ll be the most speculative, inviting ourselves to play with ideas, and imagining an economy that’s really far out and fully functioning in 2040.

Workshop Two: Worldbuilding a Feminist Enterprise, will be held on Monday, Sept. 14.

What is worldbuilding?

Worldbuilding is an activity used by futurists and by writers of speculative fiction to create a context for their storytelling. They unpack their imaginations to create the larger worlds in which their programs, characters and/or plot will unfold.

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