Andrew Ward interviews Rebel Black on Community Wealth Building.

10 March 2021, Thursday

2:00pm-3:00pm AEDT

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:

Rebel Black

Rebel Blacks’ mission in life is to #thrive, #heal and #evolve. She describes herself as a human agronomist and syntropic entrepreneur. She was raised on a farm in rural NSW Australia and is the CEO & Founder of THE Rural Woman, a global enterprise, which she operates, with support of a remote team from her office on the opalfields in Lightning Ridge, Outback NSW. Rebel loves growing, harvesting, talking about and eating local food, creating safe spaces for people to heal through trauma, working online creating communities and inspiring rural women to #bloomwheretheyare. Her career and businesses in remote Australia has spanned 21 years and the fields of tourism, community development, retail, hospitality, journalism, marketing and sales, energy healing & coaching. She is an alumni of the Australian Rural Leadership Program and has received local, state and global recognition of her work through a variety of awards.

Andrew Ward

Andrew Ward is currently:

Managing Director of Ethical Fields
Treasurer of the New Economy Network of Australian (NENA)
Co-Founder and Director of Incubator.coop
Independent Director of Crowd Funding Institute of Australia (CFIA)
Director of HenHouse.coop
Director of Wattle Street Ventures

Andrew can assist you with:

Formation of co-operatives – communicating the business model and benefits.
Member engagement
Business planning
Financial management/reporting, performance measurement and other value reporting
Fundraising and farm advocacy – including supporting co-operatives to access capital

Andrew Ward was raised in and around Moree (NSW). He commenced a Horticultural Science degree in 1998, but dropped out to pursue a business venture. His family and friends remain in Agriculture and associated industries.