East Bay Cohousing - Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville/SF

Party with Social Investors & Innovators for Green Fest kick-off (SF downtown)

November 9, 2012 · 6:30 PM
HUB SoMa

Official Pre-Party to SF Green Festival Weekend and Lauching of SIIR!

Join together on Friday, November 9th with artists, social innovators, entrepreneurs and impact funders to celebrate the concept launch of the Social Innovators & Investors Resource (SIIR). SIIR will be the first Foundation Center serving entrepreneurs, social innovators and impact investors through research, collaboration and education-networking events like this one.

EBCOHO/Cohousing California is involved as a partner because we believe that now, more than ever, we need to connect with allies working in the Sharing Economy sector to get the resources, models, finance, laws, tools, political support and connections we need to build sustainable community (cohousing/ecovillages) here and around the world. And they need us, for all the work we've done on effective communication tools and community economies and building a culture of connection.

Plus they're fun people,that we find lots of inspiration from and connection with! And we're co-sponsor so you get in for half price! (act fast, rates go up 11/8). Plus you can come and meet our visiting Body of Wisdom / Liminal Consensus presenter from Wise Acres cohousing, David Weinstock, who is leading an EBCOHO workshop just 2 days later.

The point of this EcoSystem Party is to unite the diverse social entrepreneur ecosystem from the Green Chamber to Green Drinks to Slow Money to Slow Food. “United we can change the world for the better!” This fun, interactive event is the first time SIIR is uniting innovators and entrepreneurs in arts, education, sustainable food, eco-entertainment, urban and futurism for a unique look into social capital markets.

Enjoy the best of what social capital markets can achieve…from amazing organic and locally sourced cuisine, wine and deserts to awesome arts and renewable energy projects. Come out and learn more about building the social entrepreneur ecosystem that can fuel equitable, sustainable social change locally and around the world.

Event features:

Amazing Sustainable Food by the Bay Area's Top Organic & Slow Food Entrepreneurs
Live performances by Pachas Pajama's & Balance Edutainment on the Main Stage
DJ Lamont FingerSnaps & the Art Collective Spinning in the Up Stairs Loft
HUB & Intersection Artists in the Wine Bar Gallery
Open Sustainable Bars featuring best wines and microbrews
Awesome demos by the hottest social innovators & entrepreneurs
Learn about various funding opportunities from impact funders
Network & Party with change makers and funders who are leading social innovation

Event Partners: Slow Food, Slow Money, Green Festival, Green Drinks SF, Green Chamber, Food Shift, Sharable, B Lab, Mayor's Office of Small Biz, Economic Development, Economic Empowerment, SBA, Latino Start Up Alliance, Hispanic Society of Engineers, Black Founders, Ashoka Youth Venture, Oakland Local, Oakland 2.0, Cohousing California/East Bay Cohousing, etc.

RSVP instructions: RSVP here (we'll ask your email address on the second page) and we'll send you the discount code ASAP so you can register on the party site - pay them directly, not us. Normally $20 , we worked out a deal so EBCOHO members pay half price (plus some minor service fees). Plus we could use your help a little bit at the EBCOHO table, talking about your visions of community, what you're looking for in cohousing, helping connect people to our resources. Plus you get a free Green Fest pass just for attending.

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Rose B

what a fun and energizing event! Connected with some positive and enlivening Agents of Change. Thanks!

0 · November 10
Raines Cohen

The event has been scaled down a bit from the original ambitious plans. Note that it is upstairs via a spiral staircase; elevator access is available but not convenient. Be sure to register online in advance to get your discount ticket: go to this website: http://ecosystemparty.eventbrit...

and use this promo (discount) code:
ECO2012
to get 50% off.

And come prepared to contribute to help support those suffering from the impacts of Hurricane Sandy.

0 · November 9

68 attended

Raines Cohen +50

Cohousing Coach and Aging In Community Author, Co-Organizer

Event Host
Rose B

Supporting EBCOHO Member through 3/31/2014
Claudia Flores +1
Allen Green
Wendy
Charlotte Ashlock
Anin Utigaard
Bill Miller
Fred V. Cook
SeanC

Golden Gate cohousing & EBCOHO Supporting Member through 4/30/12
Demarris +1

Supporting EBCOHO Member through 5/31/2013
Violet
Lisu
Janet McFarland

Supporting EBCOHO Member through 2/26/2012
Tady Beyene

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Imagine lively people-scaled communities dotting the San Francisco Bay Area - places co-created by their residents for raising kids, for retirement, for growing food or simply living well by sharing more. The Bay Area already has ecovillages, and cohousing neighborhoods, resident-owned housing cooperatives, and group houses -- real world places where we can live more sustainably through a more cooperative way of life. You can have both privacy and community when you know your neighbors on purpose, in day-to-day relationships based on common vision and values.

East Bay Cohousing (EBCOHO) is a Bay Area-wide MeetUp. It is hosted by Cohousing Coaches Raines Cohen and Betsy Morris of Berkeley Cohousing and their business, Planning for Sustainable Communities. We connect a wide variety of kindred spirits and resources. We support individuals wanting to learn more, forming groups looking to create community together, and members of existing communities. We are mostly in the East Bay and San Francisco; others are from the North and South Bay, Los Angeles, Nevada, and other parts of the US and Mexico. Sister meetups and other online sites hosted by PfSC include: San Francisco Cohousing, Silicon Valley Cohousing, Aging in Community, and Future of Community.

There are over two dozen cohousing communities in the greater Bay Area, (more cohousing in Oakland than any other U.S. city). There are also dozens of other emerging and long-established intentional communities in our network. EBCOHO members have recently bought or rented homes in cohousing neighborhoods and cooperatively owned apartment buildings in Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland , Pleasant Hill, Grass Valley, Santa Rosa, and Nevada City. We have members living in Swan's Market Cohousing, Triple Point, Temescal Commons, Berkeley Cohousing, Parker Street Coop, Berkeley Town House, Addison Court Coop and established forming groups.

We host EBCOHO events for members, and link you to other events featuring a global network of friends and allies: pioneers in cooperative culture and sustainable communities: urban farmers, affordable housing developers, green builders, and creative visionaries in the movements for more open, user-friendly and collaborative technologies, economies, and governments. There's a global reinvention of communiies going on - both on the ground and online -- and the Bay Area is one of the world's epicenters.

EBCOHO has more events than our MeetUp-based home page can show fully, so please click on our Calendar to see more. Join for free to get involved! There's no charge for basic membership, but supporting members get discounts on some events, including socials, and workshops, cohousing books, and Cohousing Coaching.

Start your journey with an ORIENTATION or join us for social events, talks, slide shows training and community-building workshops to learn the tools for developing good group process, healthy relationships, and on the other side, the community finance, the sharing economy, and real estate development. Find others who share your vision for supportive neighbors. Do it for yourself, for your family, for your parents, do it for the Earth! Make 2013 the year to deepen YOUR community connections.

East Bay Cohousing is a labor of love organized by Cohousing Coaches Raines Cohen and Betsy Morris. It is a project of our business and consulting firm, Planning for Sustainable Communities. PfSC combines 40 years of experience providing research and technical assistance to public and private clients in the areas of community and economic development, business planning, data management and software development.