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 – President
artebova@sbcglobal.net
Social Entrepreneur*, New London Local First, President OceanView Associates, LLC
Hugh Griffin, Vice President
hgriffin1@gmail.com
Owner, Bean and Leaf Café
Mark Roberts, Treasurer
MGR@TsetseGallery.org
CEO, TSETSE Gallery
Kenric Hanson, Secretary
kenrichanson@sbcglobal.net
Chair, New London Sustainable Committee
Staff
Linda English, Executive Director
Directors
John Olsen
localfarmsdirect@yahoo.com
Local Farms Direct, Owner
Nathaniel Trumbull, PhD, Economist
nathaniel.trumbull@uconn.edu
University of Connecticut
Ronna Stuller
rstuller@snet.net
Educator
Jocelyn Briddell, EDd
jbriddel@conncoll.edu
Connecticut College Dean of Student Life
Adam Prizio
adam@lawforfood.com
Attorney at Law for Food
Jerry Sinnamon
jasinnamon@aol.com
Owner, Be On Purpose (Performance Consulting)
Advisory Board
David Bingham, MD
Don Benoit, Sustainable Business, Professor Mitchell College
Thomas English, Thomas & Linda English Associates,
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)
New Economics Institute
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
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
