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Community-Driven Leadership

We partnered with Southern Oregon Climate Action Now (SOCAN) and had a great discussion with Ashland city leaders Mayor Julie Akins and Interim City Manager Gary Milliman it was moderated by Stephen Bárczay Sloan of the Humane Leadership Institute and Local Innovation Works.  We explored ideas on how the community can work with city staff and local elected officials to help identify and drive forward with solutions.

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Local Partners Support Almeda Fire Recovery Zone Captains

Here’s a great video from The Mail Tribune on some of our work in the community.  Zone captains work to connect neighbors in the fire affected areas to each other, to important information, and to resources to help speed recovery.

Zone captains is a partnership with founding organization, Remake Talent and Rogue Workforce Partnership who helps fund the Zone Captain’s work. 

Zone Captains (espanol) are hiring part and full time positions. So, if you know anyone who is a fire survivor and a community weaver, please reach out via the contact form on their website!

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R3V Facilitator Update Week 44

My focus since our last update has been to build our connections and insights into the question of attainable housing and support trust and community building. 

Housing Working Group 

  • Talked with 
    • Derek Sherrell, Talent planning commissioner, about promoting ADU development
    • Margaret Van Vliet of Trillium Advisors about attainable housing.
    • Joe Vollmar and Carrie Bogen of ACCESS about housing navigation and intake processes
    • Hosted reports on the work of CASA and Housing Authority of Jackson County and a panel discussion on policy changes that might support the development of more attainable housing in Southern Oregon. Recording available here.
  • Represented R3V at the Gateway project ribbon cutting ceremony.
  • Supporting LTRG Housing and Construction subcommittee as it seeks new leadership

Community Rebuilding Working Group

  • Ongoing project work outlined and clarified between LTRG and R3V here
  • Supporting JCC LTRG monthly newsletter production and distribution
  • Facilitated an Adult Spanish Literacy lessons community discussion in partnership with Listo, OnTrack, JCLS, and Lilia Caballero
  • Supported Zone Captains with training development
  • Working to facilitate conversations around intake and accessibility with ACCESS and Latino/a/x community leaders.
  • Talked with Jonathan Chavez-Baez on a variety of community rebuilding collaboration opportunities.

Backbone Organization for Collective Impact

  • R3V Dashboard published for transparency and continuous communication.
  • Steering committee will convene an ad hoc planning team to envision our next 6-12 months to inform how we will us the $70,000 grant for 2022 from OCF “to facilitate and coordinate collaboration across organizations involved in fire recovery in the interest of community transformation towards our values of efficiency, equity, and inclusion.“
  • Next Collective Impact meeting will be on 11/17 Agenda:
    • Economic Recovery update and next steps
    • Panelists from SOREDI, Ashland Food Coop, SBDC, RWP, BBSI, TURA, Zone Captains, Rotary – Guy Tauer, Rogue Community Health re hiring challenges?

As ever, please invite anyone in our community who you think should be included in our conversations. Here’s a list of all our upcoming events.

Please reach out,

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Local Innovation Works Updates and Invitations

Hi, I hope you are well.  

Just an invitation or two and a quick update. 

Invitations 

Our commitment to supporting innovation in our community continues with a discussion on how citizens can better collaborate with each other and city government with Ashland Mayor Julie Akins and Interim City Manager Gary Milliman.  This program on community driven leadership is a collaboration with our friends at Southern Oregon Climate Action Now.   We will meet virtually on Sunday evening, November 14th at 5pm.  Register for the Zoom meeting here (link expired).

We have also been supporting the work of Reimagine and Rebuild Rogue Valley (R3V) as they seek to turn tragedy into transformation.  We work to facilitate community conversations and projects around attainably priced housing supply and community rebuilding to build trust, inclusion, equity, and efficiency across sectors.  Soon, we’ll add conversations around resilient public infrastructure and rebuilding our economy.  Our meetings are open to all, find upcoming events here.  Add them to your calendar or email me and I will add you to the invite lists for future meetings. 

Updates

Here’s a nice video piece by the Mail Tribune (no longer available) on some of our work in the community.  Zone captains is a partnership with founding organization, Remake Talent, and Rogue Workforce Partnership who helps fund the Zone Captain’s work.  Zone Captains (Español) are hiring part and full time positions  if you know anyone who is a community weaver in Talent or Phoenix. 

Of course, we are also continuing our work bridging SOU students into leadership development and community service opportunities via our Local Innovation Lab partnership with Southern Oregon University.  We’re also elated to partner with the university in offering a Values-based Leadership micro credential to community members and full-time students.

I’d love to learn more about your vision for local innovation and resilience. 

Have a lovely week,

Stephen Bárczay Sloan​

c/t (541) 414.9506
Find a time on my calendar