Re-New London Council is

A non-profit Urban-based Organization consisting of

                                   ·         Local citizens

                                   ·         Urban thinkers, business leaders and artists

                                   ·         With broad culturally diverse backgrounds

                                   ·         Who hold that a quality of life comes from

                    o   Deep growth

                    o   Interdependency

                    o   Building Community from the Inside Out

                    o   Taking account of all of life when determining our natural assets

                    o   Participatory democracy as the cornerstone to an

                                           ecologically sustainable life on the planet.

                      Organization

                           Board of Directors

                           Art Costa – Chair
                          Social Entrepreneur*, New London Local First Coordinator, President OceanView Associates, LLC 

                          Hugh Griffin, Vice Chair
                         Owner, Bean and Leaf Café

                          Kenric Hanson, Secretary
                          Chair, New London Sustainable Committee

                          David Fairman
                          New London Group, President

                          Nathaniel Trumbull, PhD, Economist
                          University of Connecticut

                           Ronna Stuller
                           Educator

                           Jocelyn Briddell, EDd
                          Connecticut College Dean of Student Life
                         
                          Jerry Sinnamon
                          Owner, Be On Purpose (Performance Consulting)


                      Advisory Board
                       David Bingham, MD
                       Don Benoit, Sustainable Business, Professor Mitchell College
                       Norman Garrick, PhD
                       Ned
Ruete, President Making Space Consulting

* Social entrepreneurship refers to the activity of activists who use entrepreneurial methods to address systemic social problems. The scope of social entrepreneurship encompasses the entire listing under Area of Focus. The term has been associated with risk-takers who use ideas, resources, and opportunities in novel ways in order to produce outcomes that benefit society. Although social entrepreneurs can work in both the for-profit and nonprofit realms, their success is measured by social profit, not monetary gains. The term is relatively new dating back to the 1950s and the work of Michael Young who created sixty different social benefit organizations in the world, including the School of Social Entrepreneurs in 1997. The practice of social entrepreneurship extends back to the public health movement during the industrial revolution and would include such notables as Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony, and M.K. Gandhi. The greatest single proponent of social entrepreneurship has been Bill Drayton of Ashoka. The best-known practitioner of social entrepreneurship is Muhammad Yunus, the creator of microfinance and microcredit, the founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, and the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Despite the recent publicity, the work of most social entrepreneurs remains largely unnoticed.
Affiliated Networks, Organizations:

The City of New London, Connecticut

New London Local First

Greater New London Farm to City Coalition

Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)

Center for the Study of Economics 

Asset-Based Community Development Institute

Connecticut Asset Network

Earth Rights Institute

Henry George Foundation

New London FRESH


Groundswell USA

Council of Georgist Organizations

OceanView Associates, LLC