NOW Innovation Forum Newsletter

June 16, 2022

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“Your commitment to your wellness is part of the revolution.” 

— Danielle LaPorte

 

Welcome to the June 2022 edition of the NOW Innovation Forum Newsletter.  We are excited to share and announce new opportunities, tools, and resources with you this month. Thank you for your commitment to children, families, and communities and for joining us as we journey through another year together.

  

Bienvenido a la edición de junio de 2022 del boletín informativo del Foro de innovación NOW. Nos complace compartir y anunciar nuevas oportunidades, herramientas y recursos este mes. Gracias por su compromiso para promover el bienestar de los niños, las familias y las comunidades mientras viajamos a través de otro año juntos.

Network Highlights and Updates

LEARNING OPPORTUNITY!

 

Data Storytelling Workshop

 

Join Vital Village Networks for the free, virtual Data Storytelling Workshop series and build your capacity to create and share stories that support social change using data tools.

 
Click Here to Register!

Share Your Work! 

 

BUILD 2022 Virtual Conference

 

Share your work with a broad audience in a “Video Roundtable” -  small video rooms allowing for three moderators and up to thirteen participants to take part in lively conversation - provide an effective way to engage your audience. In this feature of the conference moderators facilitate discussions on a topic, question, role, resource, or affinity group. Sessions will be held live during the conference on July 12 for one hour and July 13 for 45 minutes. 

 

Submit your application by June 22nd, 2022

 
Click Here to Learn More!

The NOW 2022 Webinar Series “Levers of Change in Action: Unpacking the NOW Playbook” will continue in August with a focus on cooperative funding structures.

 

In the meantime, we invite you to revisit the first webinar of the series, Community Food Systems, Maternal Health and Justice featuring India Hinton and Tonni Oberly discussing the connections between community food systems, maternal health and justice.

 
Listen Here!

NEW TOOL!

 

Check out “A Dignity-Centered Guide to Reflecting on Cooperative Funding Structures,” a new resource that encourages funders and their potential partners to think intentionally about the goals and outcomes of their relationship, drawing on elements of successful #cooperative and #collaborative structures.

 
Download Here!

 Save the Date!

  

The 9th Annual Vital Village Networks National Community Leadership Summit will be held virtually October 18-19, 2022.  We invite you to save the date and keep an eye out for ways to engage and get involved in the event over the coming months.


Visit last year’s summit website to learn more.

 
Learn More Here!

Hearing From YOU! 

 

What are you reading, watching, and/or listening to this month that’s pushing your thinking around how to uplift and protect the dignity of children, families, and communities? 

 

Visit the NOW Innovation Forum Blog to share what you’ve learned and start a discussion about what this work means for our communities?   

 

Click HERE to get started.

 
View Blogs!

Opportunities Across the Village

  • University of South Florida M3 Center on Inclusive and Ethical Leadership:  Free course features 40 TEDx style sessions (10-30 mins) from 50+ experts from all corners of the world covering cutting-edge research and best practices under 8 sections. This is a self-paced, free course in which the participants can start any time and finish by December 31, 2022. 
    • Please watch a short tutorial that shows you how to register and enroll in this free course: https://app.knowmia.com/sppK . If you have any questions, please email us at certificate@academiacentralmooc.org 

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The NOW community hopes to stay connected and lift up the work and stories of all of our members. Follow and tag us on Twitter, @NOW_WellChild & @Vital_Village, so that we can virtually highlight the community led transformation you are leading.

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