CALED’s 2026 Webinar Wednesday

CALED’s Webinar Wednesday is free for our members. For non-members the cost is $85.00 per webinar. All CALED webinars will be held from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (PST)

*Please note: If you have questions regarding your registration, please contact Helen Schaubmayer or Ian Gill at least 24 hours prior to live webinar to receive a quick response. Registration closes by noon on the day of the live webinar. Please note the Zoom registration instructions below.

May 6, 2026 – 1:00-2:00pm PST

California’s Missing Economic Partner in Agriculture and Food Policy: An Initiative to Harness the Latent Capacity of the Civic Economy

California is home to both an innovation and wealth building engine, but also some of the nation’s most pressing socio-economic challenges. The state has numerous obstacles in addressing its policy priorities, yet challenges endure in economically sustainable agriculture.

We make the case that the utilization of “civic economy” institutions (cooperatives, B-Corps, nonprofits, JPAs, etc) is overlooked in federal and state economic development policies and practices, impinging the capacity for local self-help economic development. We discuss the scale, scope, and impact of the institutions of the civic economy, and highlight specific cases of socio-economic impact. The presentation closes with a roadmap as to how UCDavis and UCANR are working to overcome these challenges to fill the economic development gap, and how state and local partners can assist.

Panelist:

  • Keith Taylor, Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension & Community Economic Development Department of Human Ecology, UCDavis & UC Cooperative Extension

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CALED’s Webinar Wednesday is free for our members. For non-members the cost is $85.00 per webinar.

Attendees will need a Zoom account matching their registration email to view the webinar.

Please note, we now use the Zoom platform for our webinars. Please check with your IT department prior to the webinar to ensure you can access Zoom Webinar. Please reach out to Ian Gill  with any questions about accessing Zoom.

As we have integrated the Zoom platform with our membership software, you will need to register for the webinar with the same email that you will be using to log in to the webinar. Your email should also match the address you use for your CALED membership. CALED members can register at zero cost and the non-member fee is $85. CALED membership is for the individual, so you will have to pay if you are not a member, even if your organization is a member. The $85 attendance fee can apply towards membership. Please contact the CALED membership coordinator, Laura Cole Rowe at laura@caled.org, for details.

You will receive this link immediately via email upon completion of your registration.  The link that you receive is not sharable, so please have other CALED members from your organization who want to attend this webinar complete separate registrations.

It’s easiest to log in to your CALED account (bookmark the link for future use!) so that the software can prefill all of your information for the webinar.  You can edit the information when you register (for example, if you will be using your personal email for the webinar instead of your work email). You may also want to add the Zoom automatic email address (no-reply@zoom.us) to your contacts, to make sure it doesn’t go to spam, as well as updating to the latest version of Zoom.

If you need your log-in and/or password, please send a quick email to Ian Gill, Program & Database Manager at iangill@caled.org.

Please register no later than noon on the day of the webinar.

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If you have ideas or would like to be considered to present on an upcoming webinar, please contact Helen Schaubmayer at helen@caled.org.

Upcoming Webinars:

February 4, 2026:

Railroad in Your Community

Learn how BNSF Railway works with communities, what are the steps towards site certification,  and how to promote railroad. An overview of BNSF and how they connect with economic development will be provided, as well as a summary of railroad 101 and an example of how railroad worked in a specific community.

AI Readers Not Permitted

The California Association for Local Economic Development (CALED) is committed to high standards of ethical, moral, and legal business conduct. CALED is further dedicated to ensuring that, to the extent needed, official records from CALED’s virtual meetings, events and webinars will be created and disseminated by CALED staff and not participants or AI Readers (or AI Assistants).

As such, the Executive Committee of the CALED Board of Directors has approved the policy of not allowing AI Readers (or AI Assistants) into meetings based on concerns related to privacy, data security, and the potential for AI to misinterpret or miscommunicate sensitive or confidential information.

For recorded copies of webinars please contact Helen Schaubmayer.  Please note that some recordings may not be available.

CALED Event Cancellation Policy

CALED is pleased to incur expenses on your behalf to process your registration. If necessary, you may cancel your registration up to seven days before the day of the event and your registration fee, less a 15 per cent handling fee, will be credited to a future CALED event of your choice or your CALED membership (to be used within a 12-month period). All cancellations must be sent to CALED in writing in order to be valid. CALED does not provide cash refunds for any reason. Registrants who cancel less than seven days before the day of the event and all no shows are responsible for full payment. You may make a substitution at any time.