Upcoming Good Work Gatherings on Stewardship & Sustainability include:
When: Tuesday, September 9, 6:30 to 8:30pm in Burlington
Where: 2053 Willow Springs Lane, Burlington, NC 27215 at TS Designs http://www.tsdesigns.com/
Good Work’s Building Your Business training is geared toward motivated individuals who want to start and expand a business or enterprise.
The content of our entrepreneurship training includes understanding household budgeting, personal credit, networking, market research, marketing, business structures, pricing, direct and indirect costs, start-up budgeting, record keeping, financial statements, cash flow projections, customer service, and business financing. In our trainings, we also discuss issues related to asset building, leadership, management, community, stewardship, meaningful work, local economies, economic fairness, and sustainable communities.
When: Six Tuesday evenings beginning Tuesday, September 16 through Tuesday, October 21, from 6:30 to 8:30
Where: 2nd floor conference room at Good Work’s offices within the Latino Community Credit Union building at 201 W. Main St., Downtown Durham
The cost: On a sliding scale based on ability to pay. See the Building Your Business page of this website for more detail.
To register, contact the Good Work office this website.
The Good Work Institute is one way to be trained in the newly revised entrepreneurship coach certification that includes content from Good Work’s hands-on business training program, Building Your Business™, and integrates four areas of expanded content and additional instruction in economic empowerment, entrepreneurship, organizational development, and community leadership. This is Good Work’s train the trainer initiative.
Each 3-hour Institute provides a baseline of training in one of the four areas.
When: Economic Empowerment: Friday, September 19th, 2-5pm
Entrepreneurship: Friday, October 24th, 2-5pm
Nonprofit Organizational Development: Friday, November 21st, 2-5pm
Community Leadership: Friday, December 12th, 2-5pm
Where: 2nd floor conference room at Good Work’s offices within the Latino Community Credit Union building at 201 W. Main St., Downtown Durham
Cost: $125 per Institute. Follow-up coaching and support is included in the fee.
For more information, to tailor individual coaching around these areas, or to register for any of the Institutes, contact us through this website. Please note that attendance in each Institute is limited to ten participants.
You may be interested in becoming more involved with us. Here are some ways you can strategically assist us, become more involved, and strengthen communities as well:
Do you nurture and support entrepreneurs and connect them to others? You or someone you know may be interested in mentoring or learning from business owners with specific sector experience, nonprofit executives with particular skills, or civic entrepreneurs working in your city or region. We want to cultivate or be in relationship with local entrepreneurs that help others advance their economic, financial, and business knowledge, and strengthen our community’s entrepreneurial leadership.
Through our Stewardship and Sustainability Initiative we encourage sustainable community economic development, community investing, socially responsible businesses, civic and social entrepreneurship, servant leadership, and lifelong learning. Let us know if you or some people you know are involved with a green-collar jobs project, social enterprise, or sustainable development project. We are identifying and connecting “community stewards” who are engaged in the diverse activities that nurture communities to be more cooperative, entrepreneurial, inclusive, restorative, and sustainable.
We also have partner organizations focused on re-entry and restorative justice efforts, women’s empowerment, public policy advocacy and so on, so let us know if there’s an issue you are passionate about and want to connect with like-minded people. Maybe part of your mission is to strengthen a neighborhood, city, or region, so let us know where you imagine having impact.
At the end of the day, we are successful in our work when we help:
Let us know how you may want to contribute your time, talent, and experience. You may simply want to let us know what you are doing and we can connect the dots from there.
Connect us to people you think may be interested.
For more information or to participate in our work, invite us to speak, connect with our network, or consult with us, contact me directly.
Wishing you all the best,
John Parker
Good Work
919-796-2730 (cell)
johnp@goodwork.org
The planning group that is beginning to call itself the Black, Brown and Green Alliance includes the NAACP of North Carolina as well as local non-profits with experience serving these constituencies. As envisioned by GEA, the conference with its associated community education activities will unite the racial justice and environmental movements, bringing more students, African Americans, Hispanics and people of faith into the sustainable energy economy.
Inevitably as governments, corporations and well-to-do householders endeavor to reduce energy costs and address global warming through energy efficiency and renewable applications, new employment opportunities will arise. This green collar jobs initiative will focus on the needs of low-income and minority communities because without special attention, they will not benefit from the resulting economic shifts. Through apprenticeships, on-the-job training, and courses and credentials offered at such institutions as community colleges, historic black colleges and universities (HBCUs), living-wage career pathways can be created, with far-reaching benefits for all.
To these ends the planners seek green and traditional businesses, educators, the faith community, social service agencies and local and state political leaders to help develop the networks, the local and state legislation, and the funding that a green jobs initiative will require. Together we will be building something new, something that doesn’t exist now but which must come into being if our society is to prosper. By presenting a vibrant, young but experienced keynote speaker from Sustainable South Bronx, gathering a panel of outstanding North Carolinians with a variety of backgrounds and expertise, and offering workshops that cover the range of green employment considerations, the conference will challenge our thinking, enlarge our vision, and inspire concerted, concrete action in the days that follow.
For more information or to get involved immediately, contact Alice Loyd at aloyd@nccouncilofchurches.org or 919-828-6501. Conference website: http://www.bbgalliance.org/