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DBA-ECON / Intermediate/Advanced

Community Economics

Explore history of black wall street & cooperative economics, community asset mapping & needs assessment, cooperative business design & governance. Work through applied exercises and develop a project you can explain, test, and improve.

Digital Business (DBA series) — this prefix is academy branding, not a doctoral degree or other academic award.

A certificate issued by this academy is a certificate of completion only. It is not accredited. It is not approved by the Ohio State Board of Career Colleges and Schools (SBCCS) or any other state agency. No income or employment outcome is promised.

12 modules≈135 learner hoursSelf-paced draft
YOUR TAKEAWAYS

What you will practice

  • Explain cooperative and community economic models with historical grounding
  • Map community assets and design cooperative governance
  • Build social-enterprise and grant strategies
  • Measure impact with defined metrics
  • Deliver and defend a community economic project capstone
THE LEARNING PLAN

Inside the course

  1. 01History of Black Wall Street & Cooperative Economics
  2. 02Community Asset Mapping & Needs Assessment
  3. 03Cooperative Business Design & Governance
  4. 04Social Enterprise: Mission + Market
  5. 05Grant Writing & Federal/Foundation Funding
  6. 06Community Investment Vehicles & Rotating Funds
  7. 07The DBWS Ecosystem Model: Deployment in Practice
  8. 08Digital Cooperative Governance & Accountable Decisions
  9. 09Community Impact Measurement & Reporting
  10. 10Policy Advocacy & Systemic Change Strategy
  11. 11Sustainable Funding Models for Community Programs
  12. 12DBA-ECON-CAP
TRY THE MATERIAL

A little of what is inside.

EXCERPT FROM THE STUDENT MATERIAL
This module provides the intellectual and historical foundation for everything taught in the Community Economics Track. Before graduates can build economic infrastructure, they must understand the principles, precedents, and patterns that have defined community economic success — and failure — across centuries of Black American economic life.

Excerpt from DBA-ECON. The full curriculum is not publicly downloadable in this preview.