Blueprints for Belonging: Launch Event

Friday, October 2, 2026, 5 to 7 pm at Local Economy in Oakland

Oakland folks who care about housing, climate projects, neighborhood power, and public funding may want to keep an eye on this one.

Blueprints for Belonging is holding its launch at Local Economy, a fitting spot for a conversation about how communities build real support systems that last. Expect a room with a civic, grounded feel, more working session than gala, where people can talk across roles without the usual distance.

The featured voices are the team behind the initiative, along with people connected to its first network. They will talk through a 10 year plan to support community led climate and infrastructure work across several states. The focus is practical: funding gaps, project pipelines, peer learning, and how local groups can stay in the lead while larger policy shifts move around them.

This is a good fit for nonprofit staff, funders, planners, organizers, and anyone who has watched a strong local project get slowed down by confusing systems or unstable money. You can come to listen, meet people, and get a clearer sense of how this new effort plans to back the work already happening on the ground.

It starts right after the workday, which makes it easy to stop in, hear the plan, and still have your Friday evening ahead of you.

Join us as we introduce Blueprints for Belonging, a 10-year, multi-state initiative dedicated to turning today’s fragile community-led development momentum into durable, justice-centered infrastructure for health, prosperity, and resilience.

Communities across the United States have spent years building capacity and preparing pipelines of shovel-ready climate and infrastructure projects, but funding volatility and a fragmented ecosystem now put that progress at risk. Blueprints for Belonging fills the gap: providing portfolio support, rapid troubleshooting, peer learning, and a shared public narrative that connects local transformation to state and federal policy change, without displacing the local leadership already driving this work forward.

At this launch event, you’ll hear directly from the team behind the initiative about our strategy, the inaugural Blueprints for Belonging Network, and how organizations, funders, and practitioners can get involved in building a movement centered on people, pride, and justice.