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What brings you joy?

Shari Finnell -
An urban neighborhood strengthens its community by asking unexpected questions The Learning Tree initiative takes a different route to enhancing community by focusing on talents and gifts — not poverty.   When faced with an inability to pay their rent, mortgage or...
Latest Thinking

Talent Retention as a Community Development Strategy for Low-Income Neighborhoods

David Brancaccio -
Talent retention is a top concern for companies right now, in an era when people are quitting their jobs in droves. But it might also be an important development strategy for low-income neighborhoods, according to the new book “Reclaiming...
Friends & Neighbors

25 Ways to Love Your Neighborhood

Courtney Rose -
Strengthening neighborhoods often comes down to the simple habit of performing neighborly acts of care, love, and attention, again and again over time. This approachable list from The Hopeful Neighborhood Project gives us some practical ways to tap into the...
Friends & Neighbors

Dr. Olivia Saunders: Sovereignty and Abundance

Dr. Olivia Saunders -
Where lies the passage out of an economic and social system rooted in the illusion scarcity and competition, and into a system of living grounded in the reality of abundance and cooperation? Economist Dr. Olivia Saunders invites us to...
Friends & Neighbors

A Nation of Weavers

David Brooks -
"The social renaissance is happening from the ground up."   I start with the pain. A couple times a week I give a speech somewhere in the country about social isolation and social fragmentation. Very often a parent comes up to...
John McKnight

Creating Trust: The Unique Power of Associations

John McKnight -
  It is not difficult to distinguish the functions of physical tools from each other. No one uses a saw to drive a nail into a piece of wood. Likewise, no one attempts to cut a piece of wood with a...
Latest Thinking

A “New Direction”: Rediscovering Community Wealth Building in an Age of Gentrification

Nishani Frazier -
Gentrification is a sinister contagion spreading through Black communities across America. After years of economic oppression and deprivation, the Black community now stands at the edge of perhaps the greatest displacement since the Great Migration. Over the years, the federal...
Friends & Neighbors

People’s WPA (cont’d): Prisoner’s Apothecary & SIPP Culture

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...
Podcasts

How to Find Personal Gifts without Buying New during the Holidays

April Doner -
As the holidays unfurl, bringing hopes and promises of special flavors, cozy traditions and connection, an urgency also begins to brew within our minds and homes: to buy. At our best, we buy out of our desire to concretely demonstrate...
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...
Stories

Why Neighboring Matters in Organizational Mission

Craig Mattson -
Learning to be un-blind. That's how a friend of mine, DeAmon Harges of Indianapolis, put it to me recently. Learning to be unblind is a huge challenge of org leadership, especially when it comes to predominantly white institutions and...
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...
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...
Friends & Neighbors

Reimagining the Table, Justice, and our Relationship to Place

Darryl Answer -
What does it mean to be a neighbor? In what ways might it heal us to live in authentic, interconnected relationship with others who live and work just beyond our doorstep? How is the path to racial justice interwoven...
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...
Latest Thinking

Rio Women Reinvent Businesses through As Josefinas Colab

April Doner -
As stories spanning world has demonstrated over the last year, those who have responded to crisis collectively have unearthed an astounding abundance of creative solutions. Below is the story of how As Josefinas Colab women's collective became a network...
Friends & Neighbors

Seven Ways to Build the Solidarity Economy

Emily Kawano -
  The solidarity economy is a global movement to build a post-capitalist world that puts people and planet front and center, rather than the pursuit of blind growth and profit maximization. It isn’t a blueprint but a framework that includes...
Friends & Neighbors

Rewriting the Rules: the Ujima Boston Project

April Doner -
In Boston, communities of color are taking charge of their own economy in homegrown, innovative ways. After fighting to thrive despite generations of disinvestment, racist lending, banking and harmful development practices targeting their neighborhoods, individuals from across Boston are finding...
Stories

“40 acres and a mall:” Building Black community wealth in L.A.

April Doner -
An emerging co-operative development project in L.A.'s Crenshaw neighborhood is boldly challenging the model of urban development by asserting their vision for a co-operatively owned, community-backed mall that will directly benefit community members and their small businesses, rather than...
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Corporate Capture: Can We Find a Way Out?

This article, published originally by Nonprofit Quarterly, from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” The aircraft manufacturer Boeing,...
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