Ethical Fields’ Post

In today's webinar recap, Heather Hood dives into some of the recent initiatives geared towards enabling and advancing affordable housing solutions in the San Francisco Bay Area. Take a listen! Enterprise Community Partners

Check out this case study overview of some the work from PEL and the City of Seattle towards building a more equitable and generative regional economy:

Disaster Recovery and Community Economic Resilience are very different from Emergency Response. Plan to prepare for the sake of your businesses. #economicdevelopment

TODAY @ 12:15 pm ET: Our historian Alexander von Hoffman discusses a new paper that examines the nearly 100-year history of public housing in the US and the role the public sector might play in a new social housing system. https://lnkd.in/dPmaqyws

I'm delighted to share my first blog with CLES - Centre for Local Economic Strategies. I reflect on my first few months in post and the growing need to put communities at the heart and centre of our economic strategies. #communitywealthbuilding #localeconomies #communities #scotland #localgovernance

BLOG: Where is the community in community wealth building? Senior Researcher, Naomi Mason, reflects on her keynote address to the TSI Network conference, five months of working to understand the community wealth building landscape in Scotland and the role that the third sector can play in building the movement from the bottom up. https://ow.ly/qxtw50REq44

For businesses in North Yorkshire, there are some grants available from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund -https://lnkd.in/eatN3nhC "Woohoo!" I hear you cry. Well that was my initial reaction until I read that this didn't include businesses in the City of York, where the City of York Council's share of the UK Prosperity Fund is being spent on programmes and other activities - more on that here: https://lnkd.in/esspA3cW I don't see a problem with this approach, I just find it strange that the actions of City of York council and North Yorkshire Council don't align when they are pretty well linked, for example through the York and North Yorkshire Growth Hub. There are many small businesses and individuals ready to start their business journey in York, many of whom will already have a business plan and just need financial support to help them make their next move. For example, there are many creative businesses that may need this support to get themselves started or level up their existing business, which could help strengthen York's position as a UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts. In the meantime, I might just have to move my small business down the road to Escrick if I want to apply for local grant funding🤷♂️

Community wealth building (CWB) should be at the heart of local government strategy and having access to information will be invaluable. CWB means the money made and spent locally is part of a cycle of continuous investment in local people and places. Profit is not being extracted from the area and local communities feel the value. For example, my local family run restaurant pays the living wage and sponsors a local football team. They pay their taxes and care about what happens in the area, in a way that many big businesses simply don’t. Next time you want to buy something, think twice about where your money is going.

Save the Date! 📣 SBAN is hosting a 2024 Summit on Community Ownership on November 14. 😎 Get more details: The Summit will be a virtual, day-long event focused on long-term solutions that allow community members and stakeholders to control commercial assets, land, and enterprises. At the summit, we’ll explore individual and collective ownership models that support BIPOC- and immigrant-owned small businesses and help them stay in place, including commercial cooperatives, community land trusts, community investment trusts, and commercial property acquisition funds. 👉🏾 What to expect: The event will feature panel discussions, working sessions, and keynotes by small business advocates, policymakers, and other stakeholders involved in community ownership efforts across the United States and abroad. The summit will also feature insights from SBAN research, case studies, and working groups. 😊 Who can attend: The event is open to all SBAN members and non-members. 👀 What's next: Stay tuned for more details and registration information!

Event of Interest! Solving CA's Affordable Housing Crisis with Innovative Policy Approaches - Virtual Briefing 📆 On May 8th, join Rise Economy and the California Community Land Trust Network for a funders-only briefing and conversation with foundation, public sector, and community leaders on corporate accountability and the housing crisis. Learn about policy strategies to address the capital gap by increasing banking sector investment in affordable housing and BIPOC homeownership in a conversation moderated by Dr. Manuel Pastor, director of the USC Equity Research Institute. Participants will explore how these campaigns could generate significant resources and data to address the state’s affordable housing crisis, stabilize neighborhoods, and build climate resilience. https://lnkd.in/gRfKqxHM