Fwd: Thank you for joining us for Community Investment Vehicles in Action!

[Jim Schulman]

DMV area CWB friends,

On Sept. 4th I listened in on a Small Business Anti-Displacement Network (SBAN) webinar panel on Community Ownership (especially commercial real estate), focused on Chicago case studies. It was pretty good. Links to references brought up in the session are listed in the email from Zoom, below. You may have to cut & paste the links into your browser. 

 

P.S. SBAN will be holding a day-long Summit on Community Ownership at the Univ. of MD on 11/14. I've attended several of their events, and I find they are very much worth the investment.

 

-- Jim Schulman, Executive Director

631 'E' ST NE, Washington, DC 20002

JSch...@ARCdmv.org

202/544-0069 | https://ARCdmv.org

ARC works with communities and local governments using the interactive tool of community visioning to build connection and alignment. ARC also works with local small businesses, cooperatives, and social enterprises to promote sustainable circular regional economic development, helping them obtain the goods and services they need to run their businesses from within the Washington Metro region.

“Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. it is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.” -- Octavia Butler

"No magic bullet, not even the Internet, can save us from population explosion, deforestation, climate disruption, poison by pollution, and wholesale extinction of plant and animal species. We're going to have to want different things, seek different pleasures, pursue different goals than those that have been driving us and our world economy." -- Joanna Macy

Note: Jim's e-mail policy correlates with this perspective: "It is normal for me to take 2 days to read my emails and 2 more days to reflect on the matter and respond calmly. The culture of immediacy and the constant fragmentation of time are not very compatible with the kind of life I lead." -- Lucy Hunt, Researcher

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To: JSch...@ARCdmv.org

Date: 09/10/2025 12:50 PM EDT

Subject: Thank you for joining us for Community Investment Vehicles in Action!

 

 

Hi Jim Schulman, Thank you for attending Virtual Panel: Community Investment Vehicles in Action: What it takes to democratize ownership of neighborhood commercial real estate. We hope you enjoyed the event. Please submit your questions or comments to: mblunt...@chicagotrend.com. Hi everyone, Thank you for joining us for Community Investment Vehicles in Action! We’re so glad you could be part of the conversation about what it takes to democratize ownership of neighborhood commercial real estate. We’re grateful to our panelists for sharing their insights and to all of you who showed up and asked thoughtful questions. Here are links to the resources mentioned during the event: 1. Community Desk Chicago’s CIV Playbook https://communitydeskchicago.org/what-we-do/wealth-our-way/civ-join/ 2. City of Chicago’s Community Wealth Building Initiative Report https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/community-wealth-building/home.html 3. Brookings x TREND: Buy Back the Block Playbook https://www.brookings.edu/articles/helping-community-leaders-buy-back-the-block/ 4. TREND’s Roseland Medical Center Case Study https://www.chicagotrend.com/TREND-Inclusive-Ownership-and-Acquisition-Strategy Whether you're an investor, developer, organizer, or advocate—your role in this ecosystem matters. We look forward to continuing to advance this movement with you! With appreciation, The TREND Team Contact: Emma González MacRoberts, Chief Operating Officer TREND Community Development Corporation Email: erob...@trendcdc.org | LinkedIn Thank you!     Zoom.com 55 Almaden Blvd San Jose, CA 95113 +1.888.799.9666 ©2025 Zoom Communications, Inc.

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