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Spruce Root and JumpScale are thrilled to announce a $6M donation from Mackenzie Scott’s charitable organization, Yield Giving. This transformative gift will support Alaska Native-owned businesses through the joint implementation of JumpScale’s innovative Resilience Circles program in Southeast Alaska.
It’s an uncertain time in the US post-election that is adding to an already unsteady fundraising environment for businesses and non-profits. And yet we know that when you need to raise capital, you can’t wait until the conditions are perfect. You must forge ahead with a solid strategy, a perfected pitch, and the self-confidence to carry on. Jumpscale is offering a new fundraising advisory program to serve the founders, companies and non-profits in our community during this difficult time. Your support team will include a strategic fundraising advisor, an executive coach and a communications coach.
This month we are launching some new offerings to help leaders and their teams build resilience and create stability as you navigate the ups and downs of change. Our new monthly membership plans account for organizational and individual needs and are customized specifically to you and your team, ensuring that you get exactly the support you require.
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Resilience Circles are a breakthrough in the Indigenous-led movement for healing and regenerative economies and seek to scale the impact and health of Alaska Native communities. The JumpScale and Spruce Root teams look forward to sharing Resilience Circles’ impact and exciting program developments in the coming year in a webinar on February 16th.
Are you looking to shift from a culture of exhaustion and extraction to one of well-being, creativity, and an unprecedented level of shared ownership? Join the Beloved Economies Learning and Practice Intensive -- and dive into lessons learned from over 60 enterprises reimagining how they work.
Watch Senior Advisor Valentina Yaman share her experience in Ecuador and activating the country’s carbon market for the first time. She also discusses how JumpScale works with investors to consider indigenous worldviews, the rights of nature, and their work's personal and ecosystem impacts.
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In addition to serving as one of JumpScale’s General Partners, Josh Knauer is a serial tech entrepreneur and Co-Founder of ReSeed: a full-service carbon solution provider that brings carbon credits directly from farmers to the market, which recently raised $4.6 million in seed funding.
In this episode of The ReMembering and ReEnchanting Podcast with host Sara Jolena Wolcott and guest Dr. Alexis Bunten, we start with history, the colonial gaze, and its impact on today's tourism and travel ‘explorations,’ look at the dangers of "Disneylandification," and more.
Knauer has been tapped by the World Economic Forum to help develop guidelines and best practices for the carbon offset sector. “We’re trying to do this right, and one of the biggest potential weaknesses in methodologies such as ours is fraud detection. And so we’ve built in many layers of redundancy around the data,” said Knauer.
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Leaders and their teams report higher levels of stress and burnout than ever before. Listen to learn strategies to support your nervous system, manage your energy, and support your team to do the same.
Karla Garcia Teruel, Daniel Roth, Bedriye Hülya, and Joshua Haynes discuss the challenges investors face as they get involved in founder wellbeing and highlight innovative solutions to boost wellbeing in investment and philanthropic portfolios.
Reverend and Organizational Change professor Sean Harvey, author of the forthcoming book Warrior Compassion, and JumpScale co-founder Daniel Roth explore evolving organizational landscapes through a lens of compassionate masculinity.