Online working session
Beyond Growth: What Does Holistic Economic Development Look Like for Your Community?
A free 90-minute working session for economic development officers, development corporations and natural resource managers.
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THE QUESTION
A developer offers your Nation majority ownership of a small clean energy project. The term sheet expires in 60 days, and your development corporation has three staff.
Do you sign, ask for more time, or walk away?
This session starts with that decision. We’ll follow one mock community from the first offer to a plan it can fund and own: how it tested the offer against its own priorities, which technologies fit, and where the money comes from.
The case is drawn from patterns across many Nations, not from one community.
What would you do?
You’ll vote on this at the start of the session.
What we'll do together
The session is designed so you can use what you learn right away, with your own leadership and your own projects.
In the session
Follow a community path from start to finish
An example of what a community path might look like, followed from the first offer to a plan it can fund and own. You can compare each step with your own situation.
Innovative technology discussion
Perspectives on three technology solutions, with the question: “What could it look like if your community owned this?”
Answer your question
Send us a burning question you have when you register.
We’ll answer as many as we can during the session.
Build a network
This session is the first gathering of a network we want to keep building. You’ll see who else is doing this work across the country, join us for future sessions, and connect with us and our partners.
*Bonus: Book a free 30-minute conversation with our team about your project or planning needs.
FOR YOU AFTER THE SESSION
Beyond Growth: take-home
- A one-page list of 6 funding programs open now, checked the week of the session
- A template for bringing an opportunity to your leadership
- Contacts for the presenters
- Links to the recording and slides
- The beginning of a new network
What we’ll cover
Overview
Holistic economic development in practice, technology and community ownership, and funding and partnership pathways.
One community’s path
Angela Adsit of ICDPRO walks through how a community weighs the offer against what it wants for its people, land and future.
Technology
ClimateDoor presentation on innovative technologies and how a community could prepare to own them.
Funding and partnerships
How projects like this get paid for, including partnerships with municipalities and companies that open up new options.
Your questions
Open questions, and a short poll on an in-person gathering in 2027.
Who it’s for
Economic development officers, economic development corporations and natural resource managers.
Municipalities and cleantech companies looking to partner with Indigenous communities are welcome to listen in.
Who you’ll hear from
Register
Thursday, November 26, 2026.
12:00 to 1:30 pm Pacific Time (BC).
Online.
After you register
You’ll get the link by email. Within 48 hours of the session we’ll send the recording, slides, the funding list and partner contacts, along with the option to book a 30-minute 1:1 conversation with our team.
The session will be recorded.
Join the Network
Be the first to hear about funding opportunities, new collaborations, and project updates.
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