Tag Archives for organizizing

Helping Judy and her Son

Judith Hawkins’ family needs help, so please join me in supporting them in this time of crisis. See the crowdfunding page here, or just give in the gizmo below. As is sadly typical, I’m coming to write about this a bit … Continue reading

19. September 2015 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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Annual Reporting (2012-2013): the Arts and Craft of Facilitation

Upon checking out my LinkedIn profile from last year, someone recently told me candidly that I scan as ‘high risk.’ I LOL’d. On one hand, yeah: even in the midst of unemployment, I’d been cavalier with my engagement of this … Continue reading

16. March 2014 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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Annual Reporting: (2012-2013) Madison, Wisconsin

I visited Madison, Wisconsin three times over the past year, with two different purposes: to train as a “cooperative developer,” and to study the practice of “coproduction.” Cooperatives The first purpose for my visit to Madison was the CooperationWorks! Cooperative Business Development … Continue reading

06. January 2014 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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Annual Reporting: (2013) Residency in DC

For much of 2013, I traveled to sites where I could learn firsthand about cooperative organization, co-productive labor, and the commons. Some of this work was through formal ‘residency’ programming designed to support social research and creative practice. Some of … Continue reading

04. January 2014 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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Annual Reporting: (2012) Digital Justice in the District

Throughout most of 2012, I worked on a couple of projects that I’d started while at Bread for the City. (I left Bread in March of 2012, but in both of these projects I saw the promise of opportunity to … Continue reading

04. January 2014 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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Annual Reporting: Two Years of Useful Unemployment

In my professional life, I wrote Annual Reports. It was one of my primary responsibilities.

03. January 2014 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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Wisconsin Ideas.

written towards the end of 2012… I remember from history class, in our studies on American federalism, learning about how the states are “the laboratories of democracy” — but I only just discovered that this phrase was actually coined about … Continue reading

06. December 2013 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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Brian Anders, in memoriam

I wrote this shortly after Brian passed away, which was a year ago today. Decided to post it after a celebration of his memory last weekend, on Ontario Road in Adams Morgan. We planted a tree among his ashes. R.I.P. … Continue reading

28. August 2013 by greg.bloom@gmail.com
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