November 15 and 16, 2011

1. November 15 and 16, 2011 Building Bridges For a Just, Equitable & Sustainable Economy in the Tompkins County Region

2. Goal: JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE • A Socially Just and Sustainable Local Economy in the Tompkins County Region TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

3. A Socially Just and Sustainable Local Economy in the Tompkins County Region JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE • Creating and maintaining a community and economy that works for everyone and preserves our physical environment • Reducing our carbon footprint by 20% by 2020. • (that gives us 8 years) • Ensuring full economic human rights to everyone who lives or works in the county. • Full economic and civic participation of economically marginalized communities and individuals. TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

4. Ensuring full economic rights and economic participation of marginalized communities and individuals means: JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE • Eliminating structural poverty • Eliminating structural racism (and all of the other “isms”) that have plagued our economic and social relationships TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

5. This means: JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE Everyone who lives here has: • enough good food to eat • a safe place to live with heat in the winter • access to affordable health care Everyone who works here is making a livable wage People in economically marginalized communities own things (i.e. businesses and homes). TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

6. Goals for the next two days: JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE • When we leave here tomorrow we will have: • A shared vision of what this looks like, a shared analysis of our situation and a narrative that we can share with others • A shared set of strategies for achieving our vision that all (or most of us) believe have a good chance of working • Stronger relationships and a shared commitment to take the specific actions that will make those strategies successful TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

7. Personal Introductions Discussion Questions • Name • Affiliation • (areas of interest/organization/role) • What inspired you to be here? • What you hope to gain personally and for your community?

8. Working Agreements • What will you need from each other and from facilitators in order to participate fully?

9. Working Agreements • Participate fully • Listen for understanding • Share the “air” time: • Don’t speak twice until others have spoken once • Avoid repetition • Check Assumptions/Ask for clarification • Take some risks • Support risk takers • Honor privacy and confidentiality • Stay focused • Take care of yourself • High trust/low fear climate • Start and end on time

10. JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE Waking Up—Saying “No! TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

11. Human Rights/Economic Rights Stories Discussion questions: • Are human and economic rights fully realized and protected here in Tompkins County? • What are some examples of economic injustice that you have either experienced yourself, or witnessed here in Tompkins County? • How do these examples affect you personally (feelings, assumptions, behaviors) • What would you like to see instead?

12. JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE What’s Our Vision?-Saying “Yes! TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

13. Vision of a just and sustainable local economy in Tompkins County JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE • What are the elements of a just and sustainable local economy? • What would it look like? • What would be happening? • What wouldn’t be happening? • How would it feel? • What people be doing? TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

14. JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE Getting Grounded TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

15. What it will take: JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE • A shared vision, shared analysis, common public narrative and establishing the necessary political will. • Build and repairing relationships across the barriers of race, class and place. • A clear and shared commitment to a new local investment strategy. • Building capacity in several areas. TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

16. Who lives in the county? • Between 2000 and 2010 county population grew about 8% to about 103K • City population grew about 2.5% to about 30K County 80% White 8.6% Asian 4.2% Latino or Hispanic 4% Black 3.2% 2 or more .4% Native American City 66.7% White 16.2% Asian 6.9% Latino or Hispanic 6.6% Black 4.3% 2 or more .4%Native American

17. Some interesting economic data: County City Per capita income is $16,041 44.4% Persons below poverty level -11.1%Families (325 families) -87.1% of single mothers with children under 5 2935 firms in 2007 Black owned ? Asian owned? Latino owned? Federal spending-$948.6million Per capita income is $24,409 18.8 %Persons below poverty level -6.9% Families (13-14 hundred) -63.6% of single mothers with children under 5 9665 firms in 2007 .9% Black owned 5.3%Asian owned Latino owned?

18. Median Family Income by Census Block, 2000

19. Percent in Poverty by Census Block, 2000

20. Some Key Points For A Public Narrative: JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE • There will be a tremendous investment in a “green” economy over the next 10-20 years in the Tompkins County Region. • We would be wise to make as much of that investment with local money as possible. • Currently, capital invested in economically marginalized communities does not produce wealth. Instead, money flows into and out of these communities very quickly. • If funds are invested the way they have been in the past, it will reproduce the current inequities. TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

21. Some Key Points For A Public Narrative: JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE • If we want to create a just, sustainable economy, we have to invest more locally and • We have to invest in economically marginalized communities in different ways. • This means: • Investors have to be willing to get a slower return on their investment (Slow Money) and understand how to “get in” and “stay in.” • We need to identify assets in marginalized communities and think about how to capitalize those assets so they produce wealth in those communities. TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

22. Some Capacities We Must Develop JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE • Job readiness (especially in marginalized communities) • Cultural competency of employers and employees • How to identify and cultivate local markets for new ideas, products and services • How to identify and capitalize the assets of marginalized communities and individuals • How to identify and support entrepreneurs in marginalized communities • Networking-(linking job ready, job seekers to local employers) • How to create new products for local green investing TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

23. Some Assets We Might Pay Attention to: JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE • Youth • Creativity and ideas • Cultural assets • Potential Workforce TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

24. JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE Interdependent New Systems TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

25. Tompkins County Sustainable Economy System POLICY Financing Education, Training, Workforce Development Market Demand For Sustainable Products & Services Triple Bottom Line Enterprises and Job Creation Skilled Workforce Business Support Services Consumer Education

26. Tompkins County Sustainable Economy System POLICY Energy/Climate Plans Green Purchasing Directives, Regional Econ Dev Strategy, Green Jobs, Green NY Financing Public: TCAD, IURA, STREDC, NYSERDA, DOL, USDA Private: AFCU, local banks, Park P-R-I, BR Microcapital, Slow Money CNY, ST’s LION, FL Climate Fund Workforce Development Rebuilding the Wall, FL ReUse Center, Retrofitting/Green Energy Jobs TC3 Green Collar Curriculum, Groundswell, Workforce Tompkins, NYSERDA, Labor unions Market Demand For Sustainable Products & Services Triple Bottom Line Enterprises and Job Creation Employer Hiring Business Expansion Entrepreneurship Worker Cooperatives Skilled Workforce Business Support Services Business Cents, eLab, SEEN, Worker Coop Incubator, TC Chamber of Commerce Consumer Education Whole Community Project, Get Your Green Back Tompkins, Local First Ithaca, Green Resource Hub, Finger Lakes Energy Challenge, Ithaca Green Building Alliance, CCE-TC, TC Solid Waste, TCCPI

27. Thematic Areas & Regional Projects—Interdependent Systems Building a Just, Equitable & Sustainable Economy in the Tompkins County Region

28. JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

29. Invest in & Grow a Just, Equitable, Sustainable Economy

30. Building Bridges—Sample Projects Whole Community Project and Partners FingerlakesReUse Center Themes: Just and Sustainable Food System Entrepreneurship and Incubating Small Businesses Green Energy Jobs Workforce Preparation, Training, and Support Building Demand for A Just and Sustainable Life Style Local Green Investing Retrofitting Housing and Businesses Get Your Green Back E-LAB Incubating Entrepreneurship & Small Businesses Rebuilding the Wall

31. SUSTAINABLE JUST EQUITABLE TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

32. Open Space Possible purposes of the open space time: • Networking • Planning next steps with others • Getting more information from people • Checking in with other people about how you’re feeling and what you’re noticing--especially if you have an organizational, action group or affinity group in the workshop

33. Habits to Break—Habits to CultivateDiscussion Questions for Breakout Session Two-Thematic Areas: In order to build, repair and maintain the relationships, and develop the capacities needed to be successful in this thematic area, what will we need to think and do differently? • Whathabits of mind and behavior are in the way? • What habits do we need to break? • What will we have to stop doing? • What’s needed instead? • What habits do we need to cultivate? • What do we need to start doing, continue doing or do more of? • What will make it hard to do these things? • What support will you need?

34. Examples of habits to break: JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE • People with resources and decision-making authority: • Making decisions without getting input from people who will be affected by those decisions • Planning activities and events and including other people as an afterthought • Not listening when people tell you things you don’t particularly want to hear because the information if used would disrupt your plans • People with fewer resources and decision-making authority: • Assuming that your voice doesn’t make a difference • Assuming that you don’t have any power or influence • Pulling each other down, in-fighting, bad-mouthing each other TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

35. Examples of habits to cultivate: JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE • People with resources and decision-making authority • Establishing relationships outside your comfort zone • Listening carefully • Including people who have been marginalized in the decision-making conversations and at least letting them know the conversations are taking place • People with fewer resources and decision-making authority • Keep yourself informed about what is going on • Show up • Support each other TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

36. Open Space Discussion Questions (optional): • Opportunities; what seems possible and what seems exciting? • Specific next steps we are each interested in taking to make a difference in the thematic areas &/or to support one of the case samples • Support we will need from others • Next steps we should take together (e.g. next meetings) • What support is needed from the planning group?

37. Roundtable Discussion Questions: JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE • Specific next steps we are each willing to take to make a difference in this area, to support one of the projects • Support we will need from others • Any next steps we should take together (e.g. next meetings) • Set up individual meetings to explore possible partnerships/alliances? • What support will be needed from the planning group? TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY

38. Check-in on our goals for the past two days: JUST EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE • Do we have: • A shared vision of what a just and sustainable local economy looks like? • A shared analysis of our situation and a narrative that we can share with others? • A shared set of strategies for achieving our vision that all (or most of us) believe have a good chance of working? • Stronger relationships and a shared commitment to take the specific actions that will make those strategies successful? TOMPKINS COUNTY REGIONAL ECONOMY