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SUMMARY:Essential Endeavors\, with Julianna and Nicole
DESCRIPTION:Julianna and Nicole will hosting this conversation\, tied to
  the question that so many of us have asked — “ok… so what CAN we 
 do?!”\n\nThis session would be beneficial to anyone who is interested 
 in re-patterning economic life\, is deeply engaged in their places\, and
 /or who is just curious to hear a story of folks trying to integrate eve
 rything we are learning into a legacy organization (instead of just star
 ting something new).\n\nHere’s a little background:\n\nI (Julianna) jo
 ined a center for entrepreneurship in New Hampshire in 2021 and became i
 ts executive director in 2024. The center is almost 30 years old and is 
 well known for being innovative and “doing things differently” when 
 it comes to rural community and economic development. One of the things 
 that’s really different than traditional development is that it is ent
 repreneur-led and locally embedded\, as opposed to your main strategy to
  be attracting businesses to move to your town.\n\nFrom the beginning\, 
 I had a funny feeling … like economic activity isn’t an end in and o
 f itself. It’s FOR something. What is it for\, and is it actually doin
 g the thing it was supposed to do to begin with? And the more I engaged 
 in similar spaces with others doing similar work\, I realized that what 
 we were doing wasn’t actually all that innovative\, and it sure wasn�
 �t fixing the problems we thought it would.\n\nFor a couple years the jo
 urney of trying to understand where we were falling short of true region
 al resilience and vitality was a little lonely. I was reading and resear
 ching and talking to anyone who would engage.\n\nAfter the 2024 national
  summit we execute ever fall\, I got an email from none other than Nicol
 e Civita\, who had attended. She said we had a lot to talk about\, and w
 ow was she right — we’ve been talking ever since! Sometimes daily ha
 ha. She and the education she has introduced me to have been instrumenta
 l and my ability to re-envision the org and how we might evolve our work
  to stop re-creating the same issues we were trying to solve\, just smal
 ler\, and more local.\n\nSo we are moving away from entrepreneurship as 
 a primary focus\, and focusing instead on what we’re calling Essential
  Endeavors.\n\nIn this session we’ll share more about what we mean by 
 Essential Endeavors\, and how we are both imagining and practicing this 
 in real life.
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