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Join Just Communities for a live conversation on how PAD is redefining land development by centering homeowners, preventing displacement, and creating pathways to long-term wealth building. Overview Homeownership has long been one of the primary ways families build stability and generational wealth. Yet for many homeowners, especially lower-income and legacy homeowners, the barriers to improving or expanding their property are financial, technical, and structural. The Partnership for ADU Development (PAD) is a City of Seattle pilot program designed to address those barriers directly. Through a co-development model using ground leases, PAD enables homeowners to partner with a mission-driven developer to...
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All events listed earn participants CEUs toward the renewal of Just Communities AP Certification
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Join us for a FREE, virtual panel discussion with Tribal voices on Land Back. This will be a 2-hour event with Q&A at the end. Land justice for Tribal communities has been happening since the early 20th century, starting with Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934, which ended the allotment period, saw the return of surplus lands, and Tribes buying land. The Land Back movement is a modern extension of land justice, and started gaining traction around 2018. The goals of the Land Back movement are to reclaim political, economic, cultural sovereignty of ancestral homelands. Other goals include environmental stewardship,...
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The 5th International Land Management Conference (ILM5) will explore how politics and economics shape land governance outcomes. Through research papers, case studies, and practitioner insights, participants will engage with four interrelated themes over two days.
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VISION | POWER | SOLUTIONS is a quarterly, four-part series designed to build capacity for community-driven planning among facilitators/organizers/leaders/educators who are accountable to Black, Brown, Indigenous, and API communities. This training is part of a larger effort to foster a facilitators’ community of practice and referral network within the field of community-driven planning.
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The premier conference for community development is headed to Arizona! The 2026 program, Innovations in Public-Private Partnership, will highlight strategies for advancing economic opportunity through access to credit, investment, and financial services, with a focus on effective partnership models.
Location: Arizona
The Just Communities AP Foundations Course is a two-day, in-depth interactive online training designed for urban planning, design, and development professionals involved in all aspects of urban design, land use planning, infrastructure development, economic development, and community development. The course offers a comprehensive understanding of the Just Communities Protocol and certification program, a powerful implementation and endorsement framework for advancing place-based regenerative and equitable development. It is mandatory for those seeking to become a Just Communities Accredited Practitioner (APs). Times: Virtual sessions run from 12:30-4:30, Eastern, both days. Who Should Attend? Urban planners and designers Urban and community developers Economic...
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The National Planning Conference (NPC) is the flagship event of the American Planning Association. Each Spring, over 5,000 planning professionals gather in a rotating American city to make lifelong connections and share innovations from the forefront of planning. Through education sessions in a variety of formats, mobile workshops across the host city, timely keynote speeches, and experiences with sponsors and exhibitors in the conference Hub, attendees accumulate insights they can apply directly to their work.
Location: Detroit
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The AAJ Fall Conference 2026: Designing for Justice Positive and Community Connection, will be held in Minneapolis, October 7-9, 2026.This conference will explore the pivotal role architects play within the justice system, emphasizing the societal impact and community connection of their designs in justice facilities. We want to build a more equitable and just system, empowering disenfranchised, poor, and underserved communities and allowing them to thrive and flourish. Conference registration will open in July.
Location: Minneapolis
