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Effectively Engaging Media

Learn how to advance your organization’s message and objectives through the media. This webinar is designed for business, organized labor, nonprofits, and advocacy groups – all are welcome. This webinar is co-presented by the American Sustainable Business Network, the Ohio Sustainable Business Council, and Ohio University Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service.

Presenters:
Katie Ellman, Communications Coordinator, American Sustainable Business Network
Daniel van Hoogstraten, Partner, Amplifire Strategic Communications

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Shifting the Mindset from Despair to Determination on Climate Change

The American Sustainable Business Network’s Livable Planet Working Group presents, “Shifting the Mindset from Despair to Determination on Climate Change.” Anthropocentric climate change is an ecological and social punch to the gut, and no longer a thing of the future. Catastrophic events unfolding around feel overwhelming and too big to act on, but it is imperative that we face them head on, and not get distracted by multiplying stimuli. This panel will shake you out of the spiral of doom and gloom and present the seemingly impossible problems as a series of opportunities for collective progress in this decisive decade. Join international experts working on the frontlines of the sustainability challenge to delve fearlessly into the science, and in doing so reframe the problems as a catalyst for courageous action and leadership on every level. This session is designed to level-set with the science and bring forth meaningful solutions that you, your family, businesses, networks, and the whole of humanity can put into action now.

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United Nations Research Institute for Social Development

On November 2nd, Social Economy Europe (SEE) and the American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN) declared their support for UNRISD’s breakthrough SDPI User Manual and announced the accompanying, ongoing SEE-ASBN-UNRISD “Own The Metrics” campaign launched in late November 2021 at the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) World Cooperative Congress in Seoul. Its purpose: to “build collective, cooperative and mutualist voice and agency for development and promotion of SDPI indicators from the global social economy perspective”. This campaign is about those doing, innovating and proving the work finally owning a proportionally equal seat at the global rulemaking and standards-setting tables. Together, SEE and ASBN represent well over three million social economy and “sixfold” bottomline (people, planet, purpose, profit, participation & prosperity) businesses and business organizations.

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Tribal Energy Equity Summit

[] The 2023 Annual Tribal Energy Equity Summit will assemble, for the first time, Native American tribal leaders and officials from the Federal Government, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Department of the Interior for the purposes of establishing relationships and catalyzing more meaningful and effective dialogue about critical energy considerations such as siting, transmission, interconnection and the many resources available to tribes to support a just transition to clean energy.

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Preserving Your Legacy: How to Sell Your Business to Your Employees

Imagine a future where your employees are deeply invested in the success of your business, passionately working towards a shared vision. Welcome to the world of Employee Ownership! In this dynamic and inspiring conference session, explore how transferring ownership to your dedicated team not only preserves the fruits of your labor, but also unlocks the door to exponential growth and satisfaction while having a lasting impact on community.

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Fighting Climate Change and Building Regenerative Agriculture Supply Chains in the 2023 Farm Bill

In an increasingly uncertain economy, disrupted by severe and erratic climate conditions and global supply chain instability, regenerative agriculture represents a clear path forward for American businesses. Yet, these businesses have experienced barriers to fully bringing regenerative agriculture into their U.S. supply chains. In addition to the low number of agricultural producers trained in soil health practices, there are national supply chain gaps in the form of missing aggregators; limited processing and manufacturing capacity; and the associated shortages of skilled labor. Investments of resources in this “missing middle” is essential for both farmers to access existing markets and for brands and businesses striving to build new ones, but require the federal government’s partnership.

The American Sustainable Business Network and the [] Regenerate America coalition are partnering on a webinar to explore this issue of the “missing middle” and how USDA and Farm Bill policy address it. This webinar is presented by the ASBN Regenerative Agriculture and Justice Working Group [RELINK LOCAL].

Panelists will include:
Senator Peter Welch (D-VT)
Calla Rose Ostrander – Managing Partner, Terra Regenerative Capital
Suzanne McDowell– Vice President of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, King Arthur

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Restorative Capital Innovators- Investing in Inclusive Economies

The Restorative Capital Innovators series will focus on the work of BIPOC fund managers successfully building models of restorative finance. The April webinar is the first in a series and it also launches the partnership between ICC and ASBN to unlock more capital resources to BIPOC fund managers within the ICC network. RSF which has been an active member of the Restorative Investing Task Force has stepped up to support this partnership and help unlock more resources through its network.

The session will be moderated by Laina Greene, CEO of Angels of Impact. Speakers include: Najaah Daniels, CEO of Inclusive Capital Collective; Erika Williams, Vice President of Client Development at RSF Social Finance, and Derek Peebles, Director of Inclusive Economies at ASBN. Derek will open with explaining the work of ASBN Inclusive Economies and how this partnership with ICC and theRestorative Investing Task Force [RELINK LOCAL] is instrumental to building Inclusive Economies. Najaah will share the work of the ICC and offer some innovative financial instruments being innovated in its network. Erika will share about the Racial Justice Collaborative and how the work with ICC and ASBN Restorative Investing Task Force can help to flow resources to where it is needed most.

At the end of this session, we will head to a separate Zoom break-out room for a deeper discussion post the panel.

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Learn More [RELINK LOCAL] about the Restorative Investing Working Group

The aim of the Restorative Investing Task Force is to encourage the shifting of wealth and power back into marginalized communities by learning from those on the ground doing the hard work. For our March webinar, We do this by offering opportunities for others to join in new forms of Restorative Investing Capital Innovators are creating and ensuring peer learning on how best to address the racial wealth gap in the United States.

Learn also about our working methodology
Shared Agreements

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Why Hydrogen and Why Now?

The American Sustainable Business Network, Ohio University and the Ohio Sustainable Business Council co-present ‘[] Why Hydrogen and Why Now?‘. Learn about hydrogen projects moving Ohio and the U.S. toward a more sustainable energy and manufacturing economy.

Featured Speakers:
Nick Connell, Interim Executive Director, Green Hydrogen Coalition
Wiley Rhodes, CEO, Newpoint Gas
Frank Calzonetti, Vice President of Research, The University of Toledo
Michael Zimmer, Moderator, Professional Fellow, Ohio University

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How to Align Ownership Interests with your Business’s Mission

American Sustainable Business Network invites you to join us on Wednesday, March 15th at 1pm ET for [] ASBN Live: How to Align Ownership Interests with Your Business’s Mission, an interactive webinar with RSF Social Finance CEO Jasper van Brakel and Natalie Reitman-White, ownership & governance design advisor at Alternative Ownership Advisors.

Many business leaders have asked themselves: If I take on equity investors, will I have to fight to preserve my company’s mission? If I have to sell my company to a larger enterprise to provide an exit for investors, will I be selling out that mission? Do I have to stay small to stay loyal to my founding purpose? How do I exit or retire from the business while making sure the employees and other stakeholders are taken care of, and the mission and culture is preserved? What alternative strategies exist?

For many growing, purpose-driven ventures, the choice between liquidity for the business or for owners on the one hand, and loyalty to a social or environmental mission on the other, is as real as it is problematic. And the stakes in addressing this conundrum go much deeper than the concerns of individual companies.

During this webinar, van Brakel and Reitman-White will talk about the advantages of transitioning to a mission-protective ownership structure, introduce several different models for alternative ownership and show how they play out in real life by offering examples of businesses that have employed each with success.

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Cultivating Change: Accelerating the Shift to Purpose-Driven Business

The American Sustainable Business Network has always led from the front, showcasing values-based leadership, social ventures, corporate social responsibility, and the ‘triple bottom line.’ Today, as ‘purpose’ goes mainstream, we have a profound opportunity to reshape the way the world does business.

Mike Rowlands, CEO of long-time ASBN member Junxion Strategy, will be joined by Coro Strandberg, Canada’s leading thinker on the role of purpose in business for this inspiring conversation about the evolution of purpose-based business, leading practices you can implement, and the potential of purpose to shape an economy that serves the common good.

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