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THE LEARNING TREE: PARTNERS IN CONNECTING PEOPLE, POWER AND POSSIBILITY
DeAmon leads a workshop at the Community Ambassadors Annual Winter Retreat
The Learning Tree serves as an intermediary that centers people, place, and possibility. As the connecting partner for the Community Ambassador Program, its role is to steward resources, support professional/personal growth, guide structure of implementation, and protect the integrity of the relationship between the community advocate led group and the institution. Rather than delivering services, The Learning Tree cultivates conditions. Conditions where trust can grow. Where leadership already alive in neighborhoods can be recognized and supported. Where institutions and communities can learn alongside one another. Grounded in Asset Based Community Development, this work starts by naming what is already present. Gifts. Relationships. Knowledge. Care. From there, resources are aligned in ways that strengthen what exists rather than attempting to replace it. The Learning Tree operates as a consulting firm that intentionally reinvests a portion of its income back into Indianapolis communities, with particular care for the northwest side. This commitment reflects a belief that community work must circulate resources, not extract them. Over time, the organization has partnered with grassroots groups including Kephrw Institute, Midwest Leak, and Genesys Solutions, supporting community ecosystems through shared practice and mutual trust.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE LEARNING TREE ’ S NEIGHBORHOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN
The Ritz, a decades old neighborhood landmark was aquired by The Learning Tree as a community economic development project. It is being reimagined from a neighborhood bar to an entrepreneurship incubator and community convening hub.
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