Learning Together

National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals (Capnote)

Creating Connections for Thriving Together

Communities across the country are discovering what it takes to come together for greater strength and well-being for everyone. Cooperative Extension and the Community Development Professionals are uniquely positioned to operate, not as narrowly focused problem fixers, but as a network of system-focused stewards and multi-solvers. Our best hope for escaping the adversity spiral and changing course is to organize local and national action around a single unifying and measurable expectation: All people and places thriving -- no exceptions.

Recovery to Renewal: Webinar Series

Slow Down, Dream Big, and Center Equity

Part One: Hear from national thought leaders with Georgia Health Policy Center, National League of Cities, PolicyLink, Well-Being and Equity in the World, and the WIN Network as they share exciting opportunities, tools for taking action, and emerging lessons. Highlighting the ways stewards are starting to slow down, dream big, and center equity, as they leverage the unprecedented investments from the federal government.

Part Two: Listen to lessons learned from Communities RISE Together, including leaders with Shackle Free and the Illinois Department of Health, and the Rhode Island Foundation. Featuring the work of community stewards, as they deepen community engagement, center the voices of those most impacted by COVID-19, and disrupt the status quo.

 
 

Social Impact Exchange

Recovery to Renewal: Capturing the Trillion Dollar Opportunity

The U.S. government is sending trillions of dollars to states, counties, and cities to facilitate recovery from the pandemic. This historic infusion of public funding provides a genuine once-in-a-lifetime opportunity not merely for recovery, but for transformative change that can prioritize equity and system redesign. How can we capture this opportunity and not revert to the status quo? How can we guide federal dollars to systemic transformation that gets us to equity? Panelists share their insights, ideas, and examples of promising initiatives from around the country.

 
 

North Sound ACH

Partner Learning Session: Utilizing Measurement to Catalyze Change

Measurement and shared meaning making are essential for catalyzing community change. Leaders from Imagine Fox Cities join the North Sound ACH partners for this learning series to share their experience with using community dialogue and the well-being survey to expand community well-being and equity.

 

WIN Week: Civic Renewal

Recovery, Resilience, and Transformation – Panels

Part One: Members of the WIN Network came together for a revitalizing two-part session centered on "renewal." The first part of our meeting focused on the importance of belonging, connection, and civic muscle to transform from within. In transitioning to transforming together, participants heard the various ways our featured panel of activists and change-makers are using dialogue as a strategy for bridging divides.

"If you share your rice with me, you're no longer a threat. You might ask me for the recipe tomorrow!" -Shamso Issack, Living Well Kent

Part Two: Attendees were welcomed back into the second session through a grounding introduction to the WIN Network's strategic priorities and renewals. Michael Greer, Wendy Ake, and Richard Joyner shared bright spots from their organization related to our three focus areas of renewal: Civic Life, Economic Life, and Social, Emotional, and Spiritual Life.

"I am encouraged by the tables that I have been invited to sit at in terms of re-imagination and revitalization and where our communities are moving." -Michael Greer, ArtsFund

 
 

Social Impact Exchange

Recovery, Resilience, and Transformation – Panel

Unifying leadership means building a shared vision of what we want the world to become. How do we move ahead in ways that not only help us recover and heal, but also make us stronger and, most importantly, transform the flawed systems to ensure equity for all?

 

North Sound Accountable Community of Health

Healing & Hope: Targeted Universalism as a Strategy for Transformational Change

The systemic crises of 2020 have revealed profound inequities facing our communities. As we move toward recovery and resilience, we have an opportunity to reimagine how we advance equitable well-being for all. Join john powell, Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute, for an interactive dialogue.

 

Thriving Together

A Springboard for Equitable Recovery & Resilience in Communities Across America: An evolving work (Summer 2020)

This SPRINGBOARD is designed to help us open a new chapter in America’s quest for well-being and justice—to propel a movement that will match the high stakes of this legacy moment. The guiding framework used in this Springboard does not tell us what to do or how to act. It simply organizes the things that all people and places need in order to thrive.