How to: Build and Sustain Your Own Community Welfare System

​Over the past six years, Seeds Worth Sowing has grown into what many families rely on as a local community welfare system.What began during the 2020 uprising after George Floyd’s murder has become an effort that responds to families in survival, coordinates volunteers, distributes essential resources, and creates spaces where mothers and families can build connection and stability beyond crisis.

​Through that work, Founder Zedé Harut has compiled what we’ve learned about what it actually takes to start, fund, and sustain community-based support systems, including where she has identified the term, "Community Welfare System".

​This virtual workshop, led by Zedé, will walk through the realities behind that work. Not just the inspiration behind starting something, but the ongoing responsibility of keeping it alive.

​We’ll share lessons from six years of coordinating Seeds Worth Sowing and talk openly about the systems, challenges, and structures that make community welfare efforts possible.

​This session is designed for people who want to move beyond theory and understand what building real community infrastructure looks like.