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John McKnight

John McKnight is emeritus professor of education and social policy and codirector of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute at DePaul University. He is the coauthor of Building Communities from the Inside Out and the author of The Careless Society. He has been a community organizer and serves on the boards of several national organizations that support neighborhood development.
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John McKnight

Community Abundance Is Its Gifts

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Abundant communities start with making visible the gifts of everyone in the neighborhood—the families, the young people, the old people, the vulnerable people, the troublesome people. Everyone. We do this not out of altruism, but to create the elements...
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Connecting4Community Conference Call

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In April, 2012, Charles Holmes and Louise van Rhyn convened a conference call with John McKnight, Walter Brueggemann and Peter Block for a group of community builders in anticipation of a conference held in Cincinnati, Ohio, in May 2012. This...
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This Land Is My Land

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  Related: Dufferin Grove Park: The Bake Ovens Building Community with Portable Brick Ovens Wood-fired Communal Oven In A Park: Why Bother? (Jutta Mason, The Project for Public Spaces)   Home page photo: Friends of Dufferin Park
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Citizen Cop Out

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Join the conversation . . .  How would you organize a gathering of citizens to keep them from copping out?     Video by Peter Block. Home page photo: Jennifer Kumar
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Fallibility: The Value of Imperfection

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The capacities of an abundant community are the core elements that need to be visible and manifest to create functional families and neighborhoods. One of the capacities of an abundant community is the ability to accept people’s fallibility.   A conspicuous...
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Resolving to Rediscover Entertainment in the New Year

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  The American Academy of Pediatrics recently released a report urging that children under age two not be allowed to watch any shows on television, or on iPads, smartphones or computers. Among other reasons, the report notes that the noise...
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How to Teach Children to Lose by Winning

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In his brilliant book No Contest: The Case against Competition, author Alfie Kohn defines competition as the process by which for me to win, you must lose. Our children’s lives are filled with the competitive experience. Most of their activities...
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Capacity Building Beyond Community Services

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In this segment of his video interview Capacity Building Beyond Community Services with The Minnesota Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities, John talks about some of the reasons why social services systems can only provide "service," not care. In other segments he goes into the meaning of...
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How to Reduce the National Debt by 30 Trillion Dollars

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Anthropologists remind us that the manifestations of a community’s culture are its food, language, arts, and faith. These are the ways that have interwoven through time so that a community knows how to survive in its place. Because cultural ways...
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Lifting the Burdens of Parenting

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For many people, “parenting” is a word describing a burden. Usually, they’re correct because they’re carrying an unprecedented load, heaped on their backs throughout the twentieth century. First, many modern married couples were slowly detached from supporting relationships. They live...
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