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The Offers and Needs Market (OANM) is a lively, guided exchange where we swap skills, stuff, and support. Whether it’s free, bartered, or paid, it’s all about better knowing that what you offer matters and what you need is valued.
What to Expect
The OANM has helped participants find work, a place to live, meet new friends, and discover a deeper sense of belonging. Every exchange builds connections, those connections weave stronger communities, and more trust creates more possibilities.
It’s also a fun way to flip the script on scarcity. No more "We don‘t have enough" blues! Instead, let‘s celebrate what we do have, showing how we can help – and get helped – right now.
Required Preparation
**The deadline to submit offers and needs has passed.**
How to Join the Live Market
We’ll be on Zoom, so you‘ll want a webcam, microphone, and a quiet space. I‘ll send the Zoom link via email to people who did the preparation work at least one day in advance of the market.
Questions?
Contact me, Joel Zaslofsky, at jezaslof@gmail.com.
Start time in various time zones:
11am CT / Noon ET / 9am PT / 5pm GMT / 6pm SAST & CEST
What might we find in the intersection between the Solidarity Economy with Asset-based Community Development? Let’s find out! Join this online discussion about the synergies and complementary differences between the generative frameworks and practices of Solidarity Economy and Asset-based Community Development.
Co-facilitated by practitioners from both arenas, we’ll explore in discussion where the solidarity economy and ABCD already overlaps, opportunities for more commingling and impact, and how the two movements could come together structurally. There might also be limitations to this mashup. We’ll explore that too.
This discussion will be led by:
-Miki‘ala Catalfano, co-founder of the Native Roots Network and leader in indigenous-led regenerative community development.
-Aaron Fernando is Shareable‘s Cooperative Organizer working to support a just transition for rural electric cooperatives. He‘s also written extensively about the solidarity economy.
-Amaha Sellassie, Director of the Center for Applied Social Issues and Associate Professor of Sociology at Sinclair Community College.
-April Doner, a steward of the ABCD Institute, ABCD trainer, and solidarity economy practitioner and movement activist.
-Neal Gorenflo, ABCD Institute’s network connector and former editor of Shareable, an online magazine covering the solidarity economy.
The session will include an introductory discussion by the hosts, a larger group discussion and breakout discussions if we have a large enough group.
Join us for this exploration hosted by people in the field!
Below are event start times for various time zones:
11am CT | 6pm SAST | 5pm GMT | 9am PT | 12pm ET
For other time zones: https://www.timeanddate.com
SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS we wish to thank:
ABCD Institute
Native Roots Network
Co-op Dayton
Shareable
Next System Studies at GMU
We live in times of significant and deepening authoritarianism, polarization and social isolation. The widening divides are in multiple areas – in ideology, race, class – to mention just a few.
This is a global crisis, one with existential consequences. If people are unable to come together and exercise their power, then it’s unlikely that existential challenges like climate change and wealth inequality can be adequately addressed.
However, that foundational first step – bringing people together – may be harder to do than ever. This situation challenges people from all walks of life, but poses a special challenge and responsibility for community organizers.
This discussion, hosted by the Asset-Based Community Development Institute, gathers some of their most experienced ABCD thinkers and community organizers from around the world to address this question: how do we bring people together in times of rising authoritarianism and polarization?
This discussion will explore the challenge and possible solutions using the Asset-based Community Development lens and approach, which develops people power and solutions based on the assets already available in communities.
Hosts and core discussants include:
-Rituu B. Nanda, ABCDI member and the South Asian Participatory Program Advisor for the Global Fund for Children. Rituu is based in Delhi, India.
-Richard Holmes, ABCDI board member and Managing Director of Go Together, a UK-based consultancy that collaborates with organizations for relational work that builds community power.
-Miranda Eeles, ABCDI member and community development and community health executive that is currently on sabbatical, also based in the UK.
Please check your own time zone using timeanddate.com
7:30 AM Central US Time (Chicago)
13:30 hr British Summer Time (London)
15:30 hr East Africa Time (Addis Ababa)
18:00 hr Indian Standard Time (Mumbai)
22:30 hr Australian Eastern Standard Time (Melbourne)
Dear Higher Education Practitioners, We meet on Zoom the third Thursday of every month. We alternate between 6am one month and 12pm CST the next month to allow for more people across our world and network to participate. If you are interested in joining this Work Group and using your assets, contact us at the emails below. Thank you for joining us! Hunter Goodman and Ruth Yow Co-Facilitators, ABCDI Higher Education Working Group hgoodman@uada.edu ryow6@gatech.edu
Join this virtual meet up to learn more about ABCD Institute‘s global membership network and meet other new or prospective members. Hosted by ABCDI‘s network connector and ABCDI leadership as available.
Join here:
https://depaul.zoom.us/j/99712378657?pwd=kCg3v6OYMYitpK9Ox9LsiYGLYak7IG.1
Password: 181787
Or iPhone one-tap :
US: +17866351003,,99712378657# or +12678310333,,99712378657#
International numbers: https://depaul.zoom.us/u/ach2MoHTfq
Meeting times for select time zones:
8am Pacific (US) | 10am Central (US) | 6pm SAST | 4pm GMT
Check here for other time zones: https://www.timeanddate.com
Join this virtual meet up to learn more about ABCD Institute‘s global membership network and meet other new or prospective members. Hosted by ABCDI‘s network connector and ABCDI leadership as available.
Join here:
https://depaul.zoom.us/j/99712378657?pwd=kCg3v6OYMYitpK9Ox9LsiYGLYak7IG.1
Password: 181787
Or iPhone one-tap :
US: +17866351003,,99712378657# or +12678310333,,99712378657#
International numbers: https://depaul.zoom.us/u/ach2MoHTfq
Meeting times for select time zones:
8am Pacific (US) | 10am Central (US) | 6pm SAST | 4pm GMT
Check here for other time zones: https://www.timeanddate.com
Community textile art is more than weaving and stitching beautiful threads. Textile art is a cultural expression that encompasses values, needs, and aspirations. Often meditative, textile art offers hope to communities who have suffered. In this ABCD Story Share, presenters Teresa Cruz and Mary McCann Sanchez will explore five decades of preservation of historical memory in Chile, Honduras, and El Salvador through patchwork tapestry and embroidery. The speakers will demonstrate how testimony-telling has inspired schools and communities to document their own experiences in current struggles for well-being and justice.
Some of the presentation will be delivered in Spanish with live interpretations.