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April Doner

April Doner is a community connector, artist, and mother who is passionate about igniting the intersection between re-weaving neighbor relationships, strengthening local economies, and healing / reconciling inequities and injustices. She is a Steward at the ABCD Institute DePaul University and, while not practicing neighboring in her own neighborhood, she trains, coaches, and consults in Asset Based Community Development. April also documents local resilience as well as group processes through various creative means including writing, photography, video, and graphic recording. Since 2020, she has curated content for AbundantCommunity.com.
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Friends & Neighbors

People’s WPA (cont’d): Turn the Page Movement & Auntie Sewing Squad

April Doner -
As a continuation of our spotlight on the People's WPA by the US Department of Arts & Culture, the following are two stories of artists working within their communities to foster transformation toward a more caring, nourished, just and...
Friends & Neighbors

Social Lessons from Transformation: Starfire Council

Tim Vogt -
Sometime in 2007 or 2008, Tim Vogt, who directed an award-winning agency serving people with disabilities, had his journey interrupted years ago by a visit from three people who were unknown to him who got up and spoke at...
Stories

Artists Transforming Society: the People’s WPA

April Doner -
    Despite its name, the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC) is not a government agency. Rather, it is an independent organization formed around the importance of arts and culture to the health of communities (and, by extension, to any...
Videos

Securing Community Control of the American Rescue Plan Act

April Doner -
  With the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) in early 2021, the US federal government committed to the largest influx funding into local US governments since the New Deal of 1934. With the this bill comes a rare opportunity to...
Stories

Applying Asset-Based Community Development in an Urban Indigenous Context

Lori Sokoluk -
  September 30, 2021 marked the first year that the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation was observed in Canada as a federal statutory holiday. This public commemoration of the continuing legacy of Canadian colonialism, while also honoring of children...
Latest Thinking

What We Can Learn from Indigenous Culinary Traditions

Sean Sherman -
  Several years into his chef career, chef Sean Sherman began asking, "Where are all of the indigenous foods? Where did they go?" In this video, he takes us along his journey of rediscovering, celebrating and preserving indigenous cooking. About Sean Sherman Chef Sean...
Friends & Neighbors

Joining The Party: the Neighborhood Economics Network

Craig Mattson -
  Neighborhoods across the country bear signs of the pressing waves of development-driven displacement: boarded windows, doors hanging open, furniture and household items in front yard. Despite its impact on thousands of families and lives, the displacement that accompanies gentrification...
Friends & Neighbors

Rooted Solutions: Black farmers cultivating food sovereignty in Indianapolis

Keenan Rhodes -
"200,000 Indianapolis residents live in food deserts. Low income communities of color are the most impacted by lack of access to fresh food. But communities are responding to these challenges by creating and controlling their own food destinies." So begins...
Latest Thinking

Informal, Organic, Eclectic Group Brings Afghans to Safety

April Doner -
  As US government systems have fallen short in their capacity to move individuals to safety as the Taliban takes control within Afghahistan, the gap is being filled by "an informal, organic and eclectic group" spanning the public and private...
Friends & Neighbors

A Call to a Deeper Democracy

Cormac Russell -
We have two options, most of the time: to interpret the "worsening" of conditions around us as a call to despair while disparaging and demanding more of "those in charge," or to look closer at the power that we...
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