Summary
The Alliance for Regional Cooperation (ARC) has formed to work with Washington, DC Metro area businesses, consumers, and social enterprises to make them more aware of the benefits of engaging in explicitly regional economic activity.
ARC believes that encouraging sustainability-minded people and organizations to a default position of patronizing and supporting other local businesses, will help advance economic justice, sustainability, and cultural vitality in the region that now calls itself “the DMV” (representing DC, Suburban Maryland, and Northern Virginia).
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About
The early impetus for the formation of ARC took place in October 2016 when 40 regional thought leaders were invited to come together in Crystal City, in Arlington, VA, to consider explicitly regional promotional activities. Out of that facilitated session, organized by Jim Schulman, AIA, a ‘Design Team,’ consisting of a dozen individuals met regularly to develop a Needs and Opportunities Assessment for alliance formation and subsequent work.
ARC incorporated in the District of Columbia in April 2019 after the 4th monthly meeting of its Board of Directors.
In December 2019 an initial gathering of ARC Advisors took place and 15 individuals accepted the invitation to serve collectively as an Advisory Board.
Economic Justice
These benefits can emerge, in no small part, because circulating money within a geographically defined area has been demonstrated in to increase the wealth of that area.
Sustainability
ARC sees itself as a non-profit incubator of mission-driven regional sustainable economic development projects.
Cultural Vitality
Development is not just economic or material, it is, at its core, a form of human expression and artistry.
