Past Events
What Rural Communities Need to Know about AI Data Centers
Wednesday, March 4 | 2:00-3:30 PM ET
Data centers are rapidly expanding into rural communities across the country, bringing promises of economic development alongside concerns about water use, energy costs, and local control. We explored the physical realities of these facilities, examined who really pays for the energy they consume, and looked at what community agreements can and cannot secure.
Using Revenue Based Financing to Combat Climate Change and Build Healthy Regional Food Systems
Wednesday, February 11 | 12:00-1:00 PM ET
Flexible Capital Fund invests in growing New England companies that strengthen the supply chain in sustainable agriculture and food systems, forest products, renewable energy, clean technology, and other natural resource sectors. In this roundtable, President Janice St. Onge will share how the Fund’s revenue based financing model supports resilient rural economies.
Endowment Building for Small to Midsized Nonprofits
Wednesday, November 12 | 2:00-3:00 PM
Too many small- and medium-sized nonprofits view endowment as an opportunity beyond their reach. They do not design or invite their prospects and donors to consider building an endowment because they view this as the luxury of a research university or a major art museum. Lea Ann Skogsberg encouraged nonprofits of all sizes–especially those involved in direct service delivery–to create opportunities for their donors at multiple levels of giving to underwrite their annual gifts while working with the nonprofit to build an operating endowment that will assist in leveling the seasonal variances in revenue that cause so many nonprofits anxiety and stress as they work to serve their communities.
See all previous roundtables on our YouTube Channel!
Topics include:
- Voting deserts
- Navigating downtown disruptions
- Employee ownership
- Radically Rural biotech
- The art of the interview
- Woodworking as rural revitalization