Foundational Economy Developing a Community of Practice

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GMCA is seeking to procure services to create a 'Community of Practice' to amplify and share learning from and between people and organisations that will receive funding for innovation as part of a project to develop Greater Manchester's Foundational Economy. The "foundational economy" supplies essential goods and services, ensuring that Greater Manchester can function effectively. It includes key workers, essential supply chains and infrastructure, culturally important goods and services (like hairdressing and beauty) and it underpins places, other parts of the economy, and well-being. It's the "everyday economy", or the "essential economy" - the businesses we all rely on for our daily needs As part of a focus on supporting this part of the Greater Manchester economy, GMCA is launching a Foundational Economy Innovation Fund to provide funding for projects that test new and emerging ideas. You can find out more here. The primary purpose of the Community of Practice will be to raise the profile of innovative projects developed through a new innovation fund and to create peer networks and identify and codify learning from the projects. This will help demonstrate the essential role and transformative capacity of the Foundational Economy and will be a key route to securing a legacy from the project. For more information on this project please see The Chest- https://www.the-chest.org.uk/

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