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Community and Economic Development - Warren Wilson College

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Service | Academic Work | Education & Training | Capacity Building | Deliberative Democracy

Types of Service short-term | ongoing school year | summer

Just Economics http://justeconomicswnc.org/
- Voices for Economic Justice (hosted by Just Economics) - cooked meals for partcipants, who are low-wage workers engaeing in a leadership training. Voices is a community dialogue centered around economic justice and empowering individuals and communties who are impacted by this injustice.
MANNA Food Bank
On Track Financial Education & Counseling Center

Academic Work courses | service-learning | CBR and policy research | departments and institutes

Business & Economics Department at Warren Wilson
- ECO 201 - Microeconomics
- ECO 210 - Macroeconomics
- ECO 383 - Economic Growth & Development
- BA 293 - Introduction to Service Leadership
- BA 310 - Introduction to Nonprofit Management
Social Work Department at Warren Wilson
- SWK 210 - History of Social Work & Social Welfare
- SWK 202 - Skills of Helping Others
- SWK 291 - Changing the World: International Social Service
- SWK 310 - Social Welfare Policy

Education & Training forums | workshops | reflection activities

Jeff Israel, Chairman & Allen Jones, President - Committee of Political Education of Local 507
Holly Jones, Buncombe County Commissioner
Laura Gordon, Former President of AFL - CIO (Union Movement) http://www.aflcio.org/
Tim Rhodes, Director of Economic Services, Buncombe County Dept. of Social Services
Susan Kask, Economics Professor Warren Wilson College

Campus and Organizational Capacity-Building training | fundraising | resource development

Voices for Economic Justice - Compiled interviews of participants for the Voices program and produced a short video for the organization, Just Economics. The video is called "Voices From the Mountains". They have posted it on their website and on Youtube, and you can watch it right here!

Research, Policy Analysis, Deliberative Democracy evaluations | policy research | issue forums | advocacy

Please check out our Policy Brief on the Living Wage Campaign in Asheville, NC.
Advocacy: CHALK FEST 2009! - Sidewalk chalk art competition and fundraiser. Participants were given a 3"x3" sqaure and were asked to express "What does Economic Juctice Look Like?"

Contacts staff | faculty | students | community partners (local, regional, national)

For a quick overview of our workshop watch our video: Wages of Poverty: Economic Justice Workshop 2009