Hope that came across ok - just trying to fold multiple conversations into one space is a fascinating dance!

Exploring the intersection of Systemic Investment, Place-based Capital, Community Finance and Social Innovation - a session exploring the types of funding and financial to create multiple forms of val... Join us for a timely exploration of innovative strategies designed to tackle complex challenges faced by communities in Australia and Canada. 2025 marks an election year for both nations, and regardle...

Join us to explore innovative strategies designed to tackle complex challenges in Australia & Canada. Speakers include Meaghan Burkett, Ethical Fields, Kaj Löfgren, Regen Melbourne, Ian Bird, Community Foundations Australia and myself, hosted by @samrye.bsky.social monash.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Sam Rye on LinkedIn: Exploring the intersection of Systemic Investment, Place-based Capital… | 22 comments Exploring the intersection of Systemic Investment, Place-based Capital, Community Finance and Social Innovation! I am very excited to share that we have an… | 22 comments on LinkedIn

Excited about this one!

Exploring systemic investment, place-based capital, community finance and social innovation with some bright minds on 11 March

Join us: www.linkedin.com/posts/samrye...

The Future of Labs - Part 3: Report & Explorations The Future of Labs 2024 Gathering Report is out! Find out more about what happened and the recommendations for social (innovation) labs from 65+ practitioners who gathered in Canada to explore the fut...

[Latest ✍️] Reflections on the Future of Labs Gatherings Report

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I want to remind everyone that your local library is both physical AND digital.

You hate streaming everything because the price is ridiculous? Library.

You hate ads because they're every 3 mins or less? Library.

You want to reduce your digital footprint? Library.

You want sourced info? Library.

Sorry ignore that URL, it came from a typo and I didn't see it before posting.

We've been exploring relational infrastructure through a community resilience lens in Millgrove, Vic.

I know MosaicLab do work around citizenry & democracy. DemocracyCo too.

Regen Melbourne have a Participatory Melbourne thread too.

Any specifics you're looking for?

AshBrownStudios Shop | Redbubble AshBrownStudios is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

Super proud of my son for his first little entrepreneurial venture using his awesome illustration and creative skills!

Get your stickers, tee-shirts or whatever else 👇
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Yayoi Kusama in Naarm 🔥

3 alternatives to new years resolutions for seeding and steering change in your life/world/organization/community/family, a 🧵

Merry Solstice, Yule, Xmas Eve, Hannukah, or whatever else you might be celebrating at this time of year, wherever you may be 🌄

Having a moment down at the birrarung and catching CFA lolly scramble 🎄🏞️

What Christmas Means To Me Stevie Wonder · A Motown Christmas · Song · 1973

Top under-played Christmas songs? Go!

Stevie Wonder for your playlists open.spotify.com/track/3ckRlR...

Good question. Not sure tbh. Knowing our assets, skills and hobbies is an area we need to explore more.

Thanks Kim! Stoked to have the money on the ground to start investing in resilience-building community infrastructure.

There's lots of talk of fire refuge, but I think we'll need extreme and/or sustained heat refugia too.

Solstice community times last night, celebrating a big year for our wee community group, including $300k grants in the bank for community resilience work 🌿

“Social Innovation and the Journey to Transformation”: A Series in the @ssireview.bsky.social

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#socinn #socialinnovation

Nice summary from TIPC & Deep Transition Lab:

Scaling Experimentation: A Catalyst for Transformative System Change

Worth a read 📖

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Are you asking what could/should, or what is?

Clawhammer Black Eyed Suzie Song - Joff Lowson Learn Clawhammer with this song to make it easier and more fun. You will learn many striking skills just by watching this song.

Did I mention I'm starting to learn clawhammer banjo?!

Starting super simple but it's so nice to be playing an instrument again after all these years...

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Funding the Grassroots of Environmental Justice (SSIR) The Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective was created to fund work led by and for communities most impacted by environmental racism, climate change, and unjust systems. Four years later, what le...

What does movement-led grantmaking for environmental justice look like in practice?

Writers from the Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective, co-created by movement leaders and the Kataly Foundation, share key lessons from four years of work moving $42.9 million to communities:

Moments from a day on the hop 🏞️

The question that is often asked is why individuals & communities have declining trust in government. However, the reverse question – whether governments trust communities, and if not, why not – is far less frequently explored www.crisconsortium.org/trust-flows-... via @danielaldrich.bsky.social

On Systemic Investing Systemic investing is a promising alternative to impact investing - moving away from single point impact funding to a coherent portfolio logic to fund connected systems change initiatives and ecosyste...

[NEW ✍️] On Systemic Investing

Latest deep dive into theory, practice, scenarios and enablers to unlock finance for portfolio-approaches and challenge-led work.

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Michaela Emch 🌱 on LinkedIn: #book #change #creativity #resilience #ecosystems #innovation… | 26 comments 🎉 Now Available: « Beyond Butterflies - Designing the Future through Ecotonal Innovation » 🌿 In our new #book, Dr Julien Leyre and I explore how lessons… | 26 comments on LinkedIn

Cross posting this exciting looking book launch.

Beyond Butterflies - applying lessons from nature, biomimicry thinking and exploring #ectones as a rich space for exploring innovation approaches.

Authored by Emch & Leyre, available online now!

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@lornaprescott.bsky.social 👋

@immykaur.bsky.social 👋

Sharing a little of my #astrophotography adventures.

Starting with the classic Orion nebula over Wurundjeri Country 🌌

On Relational Infrastructure Exploring the role of relationships, trust and mutualistic approaches to change.

A growing evidence base shows the importance of social relationships, trust & collective intelligence for enabling change.

RI is the web of relationships, shared experiences & collective intelligence that underpin collaboration, problem solving and change making.

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How a Colombian City Cooled Dramatically in Just Three Years With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures -- and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.

Love this story of urban adaptation from Medellin.

The human stories in here really brings the work to life 🌳🌿

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Get ye to the kimchi & hotpot hot spots.

Oh and also to 'Best Ugly Bagels'.

Rangitoto wanders yet?