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📣 Connect Money Impact session announcement: Community Wealth, Ownership & Local Investment

What happens when communities invest in themselves? This session explores how community wealth can be built and retained through local investment, shared ownership models, community bonds, institutional investment, and whole-community approaches to economic development.

The conversation will examine how municipalities, organizations, and residents can play a role in investing in place — supporting community-owned assets, sharing resources, and creating systems that prioritize long-term social progress and local resilience.

Moderated by Tracey Brown, CEO of the Nanaimo Foundation, with panelists:
• Michel Woolner, PacificSport Vancouver Island
• Ted Pahl, Island Crisis Care Society
• Ben Geselbracht, City Councillor, City of Nanaimo
• Bruce T. Batchelor Trelawny Consulting Group

Join us June 23 in Nanaimo at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre. Register now: www.connectmoneyimpact.ca

📣 Connect Money Impact session annoucement: Investing in Place: Food Systems, Agriculture & Supply Chains

Vancouver Island and coastal communities operate within a geographically constrained and import-dependent food system, one increasingly exposed to disruption. At the same time, food represents a significant opportunity for economic development when approached as core infrastructure rather than a commodity.

This session brings together perspectives from farming, Indigenous-led food systems, and community advocacy to explore how land access, capital models, and ownership structures are shaping emerging approaches. Together, panelists will examine what it takes to build resilient, place-based food economies and who must be at the centre of that shift.

Moderated by Erin Crampton, Transformational Investing in Food Systems with panelists:

• Graham Bradley: Owner/Manager, Good Earth Farm
• Renea-Dallas: Counsellor, ‘Namgis First Nation
• Faerlyn Bush: Co-founder, Lady Faer Designs

Join us June 23 at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre in Nanaimo. Register now: www.connectmoneyimpact.ca