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• The Democracy Collaborative released a new report, A New Anchor Mission for a New Century: Community Foundations Deploying All Resources to Build Community Wealth.
• We launched our Anchor Dashboard Learning Cohort, a group of universities that will work together to measure their impact in communities, and share results, challenges and successes.
• Executive Director Ted Howard discusses the need for a new federal policy strategy to help cities leverage the economic might of their anchor institutions to benefit communities in the Center for American Progress’ TalkPoverty blog
• Journalist Tanvi Misra discusses anchors as a place-based community revitalization strategy in The Atlantic’s CityLab.
• In an openDemocracy article, University of Oxford political theorist Stuart White notes the role that community wealth building can have as a potential solution to widening inequality.
• Fast Company magazine celebrates Thunder Valley Community Economic Development Corporation, a participant in our Learning/Action Lab for Community Wealth Building from the Pine Ridge Reservation.
• Democracy Collaborative Co-founder Gar Alperovitz contributed articles to Truthout & Al Jazeera and attended the Praxis Institute’s Economics of Sustainability Conference & La Montanita Co-op’s annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• C-W Interview:  José Corona, Executive Director of Inner City Advisors (ICA)

This month's new developments include: 

• The Democracy Collaborative released a new report, Policies for Community Wealth Building: Leveraging State and Local Resources. 
• The Washington Post published an article describing Richmond, Virginia’s newly established Office of Community Wealth Building. A New Republic article explored how cooperatives can support a green economy and a Yes! Magazine article focused on how land trusts, worker ownership, and public banking can help reduce inequality.
• Democracy Collaborative co-founder Gar Alperovitz published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times and appears in a joint interview with economic geography scholar David Harvey, conducted by Journalist Laura Flanders of GRITtv.
• New Report Outlines Emerging Best Practices in State & Local Policies to Build Community Wealth
• Federal Commitment to Higher Workforce Standards Reduces Inequality
• Communities Address Racial Inequity through Investment in Local Food Systems
• Healthcare Institutions Invest Locally to Build Sustainable and Healthy Communities
• The Road So Far: Penn Leaders Recount Path to Building an Anchor Mission
• Participatory Budgeting Project
• Impact Investing Policy Collaborative

This month's new developments include: 

• The Democracy Collaborative is pleased to share our latest report, Building Community Wealth: An Action Plan for Northwest Jacksonville
• Democracy Collaborative co-fonder Ted Howard discussed best practice approaches for measuring the impact of anchor institutions in a webinar hosted by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC). He also moderated a plenary panel at CleanMed 2014 on the Cleveland anchor institution framework
• Research Director Steve Dubb’s Leveraging the Power of Local Institutions presentation at the American Independent Business Alliance’s 2014 Go Local, Grow Local conference is also available
• Working with the Northwest Area Foundation and Native American community development leaders from across the northwestern United States, The Democracy Collaborative recently wrapped up the first year of our “Learning/Action Lab for Community Wealth Building”
  
• enior Research Associate Thomas Hanna and Andrew McLeod of Collective Seeds Consulting Cooperative guest edit Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO)’s blog series, Scaling-Up the Cooperative Movement
  
• C-W Interview: Ai Jen Poo
• Guide Outlines Strategies to Sustain Community Assets
• Philanthropic Organizations Seek to Expand Social Impact
• Report Outlines Agenda to Increase Financial Service Access in Communities of Color
• Latino and African American Homeowners Face Continued High Levels of Underwater Mortgages
• National Resource Network
• The Working World
•  Democracy Collaborative co-founder Gar Alperovitz spoke on the keynote panel at the New Economy Coalition’s Commonbound Conference and gave the closing keynote address at the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Action Plan Outlines Strategy to Builid Community Wealth in Jacksonville, Florida

This month's new developments include:

• Join us on June 5 for a free webinar on “Measuring the Shared Value of Anchor Community Engagement,” hosted by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. 
• Democracy Collaborative co-founder Ted Howard spoke at the City of Memphis’ 2014 Neighborhood Redevelopment Conference on “Building Healthy Communities from the Inside Out.”
• Ted Howard delivered the keynote address on “Closing the Wealth Gap: the Community Wealth Building Paradigm” at the German Marshall Fund’s Strong Cities, Strong Communities National Network Workshop in Cleveland.
• Our research director Steve Dubb presented on anchor institution strategies and equitable development for a PolicyLink webinar and at the 25^th anniversary conference of the Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development.
• Steve and research associate Dave Zuckerman were featured presenters at the MedStar Health Roundtable at Georgetown University.
• Dave and research associate Sarah McKinley discussed impact metrics for anchor institutions at the Community-Campus Partnership for Health Conference along with David Perry of the University of Illinois, Chicago and Leif Elsmo of the University of Chicago Medical Center. 
• In its newest Field Guide to Investing in a Regenerative Economy, the Capital Institute outlines Cleveland’s Evergreen model.
• In a DiversityInc interview, Orlando Santaella, a worker-owner of Evergreen Energy Solutions, talks about the transformative role that Evergreen has had on his life.
• Co-founder Gar Alperovitz presented a keynote address at the Social Transformation through Social Innovationconference,
• Gar discussed the merits of a guaranteed minimum income in this CNN article and appeared in a featured video on Upworthy.
• Gar also questioned the assumption that economic growth is universally good in a recent Al Jazeera America article.
• A free download of The Democracy Collaborative's chapter "Economic Democracy", featured in the new anthologyAchieving Sustainability: Visions, Principles & Practices, is now available.
• Democracy Collaborative senior fellows Marjorie Kelly and Joe Guinan and senior researcher Thomas Hanna each contribute chapters to a new free e-book,Democratic Wealth: Building a Citizens' Economy.
• Income Inequality Rises in Every State Across the Country
• New Sectoral Employment Initiatives Broaden Opportunity for All
• Speculative Finance Endangers Environmental and Economic Sustainability
• Trade Unions and Worker Cooperatives Unite
• A Practical Playbook
• Roots and Branches