My daughter, B.J. Harden Jones and I are teaching the Act Local School, for 10 sessions at 12 Baskets, Asheville Poverty Initiative, starting March 20.
The first class is about a powerful new tool that makes donors more powerful and more connected to their causes and the non profits and mission focused businesses working toward those causes. That first class, March 20th is on how to use giving to invest to become a more powerful giver, with more to give to the cause you care about and how to do it in your trust circle, from Sunday School class to civic club, to garden club to junior high ecology class.
Wednesday, March 27, is on the history of settlement and power the place, the Quala Boundary, to the Biltmore, to Shiloh and Burton Street with Tom Hatley leading, working with B.J.
Here are the other classes scheduled, subject to change. This blog post and the class itself will pull from the Act Local page on the wiki where I organize content and concepts
How to Subvert Redlining in your community with allies like Strongtowns chapters and a local board of realtors.
Warren Wilson College’s Guaranteed from Seed may be able to transform the biomedicinal industry into something better for the planet in our bioregion and beyond. It’s scheduled for April.
Workforce housing solutions so that people don’t have to drive 40 miles for a restaurant job
Silver tsunami in North Carolina Boomers needing to sell the family business because the kids went to college and didn’t come back.
The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and the path to capital in AVL
How to bridge the red blue divide
There is suggested donation of $100 for the School, and $15 for each class. It’s deductible; Eagle Market Streets is the fiscal sponsor of this project.
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