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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

This month's new developments include: 

• Democracy Collaborative Research Associate David Zuckerman presents at the American Hospital Association webinar series, “Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence"
• Gar Alperovitz spoke with Peter Buffett, chairman of the NOVO Foundation, on systemic change
• Democracy Collaborative Research Director Steve Dubb participated on a panel at the Aspen Institute to discuss “Big Ideas for Job Creation” 
• Our Learning/Action Laboratory for Community Wealth Building met in Cleveland to learn about the city’s Greater University Circle Initiative and the Evergreen Cooperatives
• The release of a new guide on crowdfunding and value chains and an article on article regarding a Cincinnati Union Co-op gathering
  
• The release of the Worker Cooperatives section on our website
  
• Imagining Systemic Change with Peter Buffett
• C-W City: Richmond, Virginia
• Lawmakers Respond to Household Financial Insecurity
• New Book Combats Enclosures and Embraces the Commons
• GDP Alternatives Better Capture Measures of Progress
• New Guide Outlines Tools to Spur Local Investment
• The Equality of Opportunity Project
• Boaz & Ruth

This month's new developments include: 

• The Collaborative welcomes Marjorie Kelly to our staff as a Senior Fellow and Director of Advisory Services.
• We organized the first strategy workshop of the Next System Project, an initiative co-chaired by Democracy Collaborative co-founder Gar Alperovitz and prominent environmentalist Gus Speth.
• The Anchor Dashboard encourages conversations about how to measure the impact of an anchor mission for low-income communities in a Federal Reserve audioconference, Governing magazine, and in Rooflines: The Shelterforce Blog.
  
• Democracy Collaborative co-founder Gar Alperovitz appeared on Russia Today’s Breaking the Set to discuss his new book, What Then Must We Do?.
• Gar Alperovitz Reflects on Dr. King's Economic Justice Challenge
• Video Showcases Anchor Dashboard for Measuring Community Impact
• Report Explores Green Economies as Drivers of Community Wealth
• Worker Co-op Launched in Springfield, Massachusetts
• International Survery Counts 2.9 Million Worker Co-op Member-Owners
• Municipal Enterprises Create Jobs and Promote Sustainability
• The Maine Employee Ownership Network
• Asset Building Policy Network

This month’s new developments, include:

• Our Anchor Dashboard paper, designed to help institutions assess the long-term impact of their economic development activities, was featured in a presentation at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of University Partnerships, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond’s Redefining “Rust Belt” four-city videoconference, The Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities’ annual conference, the Municipal Arts Society Summit for New York City, and at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City’s Inner City Economic Summit in Cleveland.
• Community Wealth Building Key to Democratizing the Economy
• C-W Interview: Reverend Barry Randolph
• Book Explores Equitable Solutions to Global Environmental Challenges
• New Series Investigates Community Wealth Building Inititatives Across the Nation
• Growing Opportunities to Invest Directly in Communities Builds Local Economies
• Collaboration Between Anchor Instituions and Food Hubs Supports Local Food Economies
• Center for Environmental Transformation
• Cincinatti Union Cooperative