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Democracy School, a local, experimental project under the umbrella of Neighborhoodeconomics.org, in partnership with Warren Wilson College and the Asheville Poverty Initiative [https://www.ashevillepovertyinitiative.org/]


Snapshot of Democracy School classes
The list of Democracy School classes:
[[Workforce housing solutions]] so that people don’t have to drive 40 miles for a restaurant job
How to support the local [[farm to table economy]]
How to [[invest in local businesses]] at lower than crowdfunding risk with greater upside
How to [[bridge the red blue divide]]
How to [[subvert redlining]] in your community
How to [[curb corporate power]] through the rights of nature and other solutions
How to [[invest to bridge the racial wealth gap]]
How to use [[giving to invest]] to become a more powerful giver, and how to do it in your trust circle, from Sunday School class to civic club
The [[history of settlement and power]] in the place where you live
How [[faith communities can engage]] in their local economies
Description of classes
Classes:
2. How Buncombe County was settled the way it was: The Vanderbilt’s, the Biltmore and the Shiloh Community, the evolution of forestry, the history of power in the place we live and the problems it has created for our collective future. Instructors: Tom Hatley, Cherokee elder Tom Belt
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8. Faith Communities engaging in the local economy:
Answering God’s call to work for justice for the marginalized, as individuals, as congregations, and its theological foundations: instructors, Rosa Lee Harden, Aaron Kuecker, Stan Wilson, Willie James Jennings Tim Soerens
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The concept doc on the give to invest platform
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10nLUBq4QTctoiqLgnkEP-azzKil22B9hpENhfyOt0sE/edit
Giving to invest concept

Latest revision as of 10:52, 2 March 2024

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