{"id":86003,"date":"2017-10-30T01:21:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T05:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=86003"},"modified":"2017-10-28T12:29:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T16:29:35","slug":"conference-on-jobs-and-community-wealth-nov-2-and-3-in-utica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=86003","title":{"rendered":"Conference on Jobs and Community Wealth\u00a0Nov. 2 and 3\u00a0in Utica"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Central New York Citizen Action, in partnership with The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, will hold Jobs and Community Wealth conference in Utica Nov. 2 and 3<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The conference will explore\u00a0innovative, democratic approaches to economic development that\u00a0broaden ownership and participation in the\u00a0economy\u00a0and help build community wealth\u00a0through\u00a0employee owner enterprises, cooperatives, public and community-owned financial institutions, and social enterprises.\u00a0\u00a0 It will focus on practical strategies and policies that will strengthen the Upstate New York and help lower income people get jobs.<\/p>\n

Information will be available for local groups and entrepreneurs on starting community-owned enterprises. The conference will highlight on how\u00a0the economic power of anchor institutions such as the proposed new Utica hospital can be leveraged to create jobs and promote equitable development.\u00a0\u00a0All the conference events are free and open to the public.\u00a0 Refreshments and lunch will be provided without charge.<\/p>\n

The conference will begin with a community forum at\u00a07 p.m.<\/span>\u00a0Thursday, Nov. 2,<\/span>\u00a0at the DeSales Center,\u00a0309 Genesee St. Utica, NY 13501<\/a>. Jessica\u00a0S.\u00a0Rose,\u00a0CFO and Director of Employee Ownership Programs at the Democracy Collaborative, a leading national\u00a0research and field-building institute,\u00a0will deliver a keynote address on how community wealth building and employee-owned firms can benefit the Upstate economy. She will be joined by Ronald Deutsch, Executive Director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, who will provide a critique of traditional economic development programs that make communities compete using tax abatements to lure big businesses.\u00a0 At the community forum, Citizen Action will a release a report showing how current economic development policies can be made more effective by using a community wealth building approach.<\/p>\n

The conference will resume on\u00a0Friday, November 3rd from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/span>\u00a0at the Westminster Presbyterian Church (714 Washington St, Utica, NY 13502). Panels and workshops will be held on innovative economic policies, alternative ownership models, financing, anchor institutions, public banks, and social enterprises and how these models are being successfully implemented in Buffalo, Rochester, and other cities.<\/p>\n

Jessica\u00a0S.\u00a0Rose said:\u00a0 Community wealth building strategies are an important tool in the economic development toolkit because they help improve family economic security, root wealth in communities, and keep jobs local.\u00a0 At a time when so many American families feel that their economic interests have been forgotten, New York state is a leading innovator in the effort to\u00a0create an environment friendly to broad-based ownership models and incentivize more activity in that space.\u00a0 From Rochester to Buffalo to Syracuse and New York City, we are starting to see a critical mass of community wealth building activity that could add up to some very powerful results.”<\/p>\n

More information on the conference can be found by calling\u00a0315.725.0974<\/a>,\u00a0cnycitizenaction@gmail.com, or at:\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/econ.cnycia.org<\/a>.\u00a0Persons interested in attending the\u00a0November 3<\/span>\u00a0conference should pre-register at\u00a0econ.cnycia.org\/register<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Central New York Citizen Action, in partnership with The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, will hold Jobs and Community Wealth conference in Utica Nov. 2 and 3. The conference will explore\u00a0innovative, democratic approaches to economic development that\u00a0broaden ownership and participation in the\u00a0economy\u00a0and help build community wealth\u00a0through\u00a0employee owner enterprises, cooperatives, public and community-owned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-mn9","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Citizen-Action.jpg?fit=768%2C471&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}