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Community Development
Baltimore
Building Community Wealth ... Part 1: Structures of Resilience ... May 15, 2019 | 7:30 - 9:30 AM | ImpactHub Baltimore
Peter Burgess
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| Building Community Wealth Part 1: Structures of Resilience May 15, 2019 | 7:30 - 9:30 AM | ImpactHub Baltimore Our Speakers OLIVIA REBANAL Director of Inclusive Food Systems Capital Impact Partners Olivia Rebanal Like (0) Director of Inclusive Food Systems Capital Impact Partners Olivia M Rebanal is Director of Loan Programs at Capital Impact Partners (CIP), a CDFI that has deployed over $2 billion to serve 5 million people in our communities’ critical sectors: health care, education, elder communities, healthy food, cooperatives, and affordable housing. Olivia manages CIP’s Healthy Food Financing strategy, initiatives, and partnerships. Through programs like the California FreshWorks Fund, Michigan Good Food Fund, and the National Cooperative Grocer Fund, CIP increases access to affordable healthy food, supports neighborhood retailers, and expands food distribution, processing and production. Olivia helped found a neighborhood buying club to make fresh, local food affordable. She makes kombucha at home and enjoys eating orange peels to avoid composting them. JOSEPH CURETON Chief Coordinating Officer Staffing Cooperative Joseph Cureton Like (0) COO Staffing Cooperative KATE KHATIB Executive Director The Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy Kate Khatib Like (0) Executive Director Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy Kate Khatib is an Arab-American organizer, movement strategist, and cook. She is a founding worker-owner of the Red Emma’s cooperative, and co-founder of The 2640 Project, The Baltimore Free School, and The Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy. In 2018, she became the director of Seed Commons, a national network of locally-rooted cooperative loan funds that use a non-extractive model of lending developed by The Working World to connect worker-owned and community-controlled businesses with the capital and technical assistance they need to thrive. She holds a PhD in Intellectual History from the Johns Hopkins University, as well as two Masters degrees from the University of Amsterdam, and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. GREG BRODSKY Founder Start.coop Greg Brodsky Like (0) Founder Start.coop Greg Brodsky is the Director of Start.coop which is the first accelerator for cooperatively owned businesses focused on achieving scale. Greg was previously the founder of The Bike Cooperative, Co-founder of the Independent Brewers Alliance, and is also the current Board Chair at Cooperative Development Institute. | |||||||||