Wednesday, February 2, 1-2pm ET - Resilient Leadership: Tools to Manage Stress, Anxiety and Uncertainty in Yourself and Your Team to Be a More Effective Leader

Join us for an interactive webinar with Bonnie Coberly and Valentina Roldan, Senior Advisors with Jumpscale.

In these uncertain times, leaders and their teams are reporting higher levels of stress and burnout than ever before. Resilience is needed now more than ever. How can you stay grounded and resourced to lead effectively? What tools can you use to support your team members who are struggling? Bonnie and Valentina will walk you through some key ways to support your nervous system (and the body’s stress response), how to audit and manage your daily energy to accomplish what’s needed, and how to work on your inner belief systems that may be getting in the way.

 Wednesday, February 16, 1pm ET - WALDEN MUTUAL BANK: Seeking the First New Mutual Bank Charter in a Generation

Join us to discuss Walden Mutual Bank, an interactive webinar with Charley Cummings (CEO) and Vince Sicilliano (Board Chair).

Walden Mutual Bank is seeking the first new mutual bank charter granted in a generation, to support lending in the sustainable local food ecosystem in New England and New York, while offering consumer deposit accounts aligned with social and environmental impact. Cummings will describe how mutual banks, which are ultimately owned by depositors and governed by a board of independent Corporators, are ripe for reinvention in the modern era. The Bank intends to open in the second quarter of 2022, and is seeking investment in its Special Deposits, which serve as the bank’s regulatory capital.

Episode 6 - Regeneration: A Systemic Approach to Multi-Layered Impact

BIPOC farmers disproportionately face the detrimental impacts of institutional oppression. The agricultural players have deprived farmers of access to capital. Reparative capital is needed to build thriving businesses and shift control and power back to marginalized communities to support self-determination. 

Episode 7 - Let My People Vote: Desmond Meade & Erika Alexander

A dialog centered on ending the disenfranchisement and discrimination against people with convictions, and creating a more comprehensive and humane reentry system that will enhance successful reentry, reduce recidivism, and increase public safety. 

Businesses for Conservation & Climate Action (BCCA) Monthly Meeting

Wednesday, January 19, 3-4pm ET - BCCA Monthly Meeting

This month, the meeting will focus on BCCA’s work to advance Indigenous co-management as a core tenet of national conservation initiatives. We’ll feature the Pribilof Islands Marine Ecosystem (PRIME) initiative, which centers conservation of this incredible marine area within a framework of government-to-government co-management. We will also discuss emerging opportunities for collaborative management and co-generation of data/knowledge across other areas of US conservation. And importantly, we’ll be looking to you for inspiring ideas for where Indigenous and non-Indigenous community based business leadership can enhance conservation and climate action through co-management.

National Investors Circle Pitch Call

Thursday, January 20, 12-1:30pm ET - Contact Jillian Gerstley ([email protected]) to participate

We have an exciting lineup of companies presenting including Nucleos and Asarasi.

Nucleos delivers safe and secure learning, vocational training, and re-entry solutions to America’s seven million people incarcerated and on parole or probation. They recently closed a sale with the Colorado DOC, and they are planning to launch a research study and pilot with the Pennsylvania DOC.

Asarasi is a new member company of ASBN who was referred to us by the Connecticut Sustainable Business Council. Asarasi has developed a renewable & sustainable source of pure, plant-based water replacing the consumption of ground water and adding to the world's drinkable water supply.  

Climate & Energy Working Group

Thursday, January 27, 1-2pm ET - Contact Michael Green to Participate

Climate & Energy Working Group The objective of ASBN’s Climate & Energy working group is to discuss and identify key problems, solutions and strategies to address the climate and energy crisis our planet is facing. Global temperature has been on the rise, with the first decade of the 21st century the warmest on record. Overwhelmingly, scientists agree that man-made climate change is occurring. Climate events are indisputably more frequent, more severe and more destructive.