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Replace the Gospel of Money: An Interview With David Korten

Dean Paton -
David Korten began his professional life as a professor at the Harvard Business School on a mission to lift struggling people in Third World nations out of poverty by sharing the secrets of U.S. business success. Yet, after a...
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Working in the Gap

Deb Wisniewski -
Often, when you get together with a group of people interested in Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD), you find a conversation about the gifts of individuals and what communities can do for themselves. But what about institutions? Institutions have been...
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John McKnight: Community and Its Counterfeits

David Cayley -
Some radio series find their proper moment, others don't.  A broadcast might be a little too far ahead of the zeitgeist, or too far behind it.  But every once in a while one's timing is just right.  This series,...
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Out of the Box Prize 2015

Bill Berkowitz, Ph.D. -
The Community Tool Box is celebrating its 20th anniversary by hosting an Out of the Box Prize to honor innovative and promising approaches to promoting community health and development happening in communities worldwide. The Grand Prize winner will receive...
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Interview with John McKnight

Faith & Leadership -
Detail from a graphic record of a facilitated discussion in Vancouver, B.C., in which participants talked about what belonging and community mean. The artists included examples of local community development in the drawing. Illustration by Liz Etmanski and Aaron Johannes/Spectrum...
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Next to Last Things

Daniel Grego -
Next to Last Things for Jutta Mason and David Cayley each moment is a gift. nothing is guaranteed. so when she cups your cheek in her hand or when fresh cut flowers scent the room or the cardinal sings atop the birch in the yard or the sweetness of...
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One-Room School and Reclaiming Economic Sovereignty

Cormac Russell -
What does a one-room schoolhouse in Michigan have to do with Greece, Europe, Democracy and the now floundering economic globalization experiment? On January 25, 2015 the far-left Syriza Party won 149 seats out of 300 in Greece’s parliamentary elections and formed...
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From Sharing Economy to Gift Ecology

Nipun Mehta -
Couple weeks back, Sam and I spoke at a local gathering in Oakland. In casual conversation, the convener of our circle, Syra tells us: "I love that so many people are talking about sharing. See, I'm always campaigning for...
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Turn Up Your Dream Switch

Jeff Yost -
Through a growing network of ambitious people, Nebraska Community Foundation uses shared ideas, resources and experiences to help local leaders unleash the abundant assets and talents within their own place. In other words, they help hometowns turn up their...
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Let’s Measure What Matters to Well-Being

Mark Anielski -
In 1968 Robert Kennedy critiqued the Gross National Product (GNP) as a flawed measure of progress; he noted that the GNP measures everything (in money terms) "except that which makes worth while." Our work is motivated by Kennedy’s challenge:...
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Measuring What Matters

Mark Anielski -
Pioneering economist Mark Anielski outlines the pitfalls of relying on gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of societal wealth. Instead, we need to measure the things that matter most to us to really understand how we're doing. And...
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Conscious Simplicity

Duane Elgin -
Here are three major ways that I see the idea of simplicity presented in today’s popular media: 1. Crude or Regressive Simplicity The mainstream media often shows simplicity as a path of regress instead of progress. Simplicity is frequently presented as anti-­technology and anti-­innovation,...
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Community Health Vital for Healthy People

Prucia Buscell -
Leana Wen, MD, an emergency physician who has worked in inner city hospitals in St. Louis, Boston and Washington, D.C., writes in her blog about the painful experience of administering short term fixes to patients whose long term afflictions lie...
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Class Warfare on Earth and in Heaven

Walter Brueggemann -
The phrase “class warfare” may be taken as a descriptive term to identify the power dynamics of politics and economics. “Class” refers most often to the gap between the “haves” who enjoy political leverage and economic advantage over the...
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The Scarcity Narrative

Walter Brueggemann -
World-renowned Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann's off-the-cuff observations on how the Scarcity Narrative pervades individual and community life. Running time: 00:01:49 Related: The Food Fight: Accumulation and Abundance (Brueggemann) Home page image: eye of einstein
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Community Building and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Cormac Russell -
I’m afraid at any given time I flit from one book to another and between several from one week to the next, and typically there’s little that’s common across them. So I was pleasantly surprised when I saw a...
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In Memory of Angeles Arrien

Abundant Community -
To our Connecting For Community Friends This week we received the sad news that Angeles Arrien passed away on April 24 of complications from a long bout of walking pneumonia.  She will be deeply missed. For those who wish to honor her...
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How 32,000 Neighborhoods Use Nextdoor to Share with Neighbors

Ed Everett -
From tools and food to toys and babysitting, 9 out of 10 Americans say they are willing to share resources with their neighbors. So says a recent survey sponsored by Nextdoor, the free and private social network for neighborhoods. Nextdoor...
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A Home for Island Values

James Koshiba -
From "Nurturing Our Taro Patches," a column in Hawaii's monthly Paradise Post, by Jimmy Toyama This month I’m pleased to introduce James Koshiba to you. Until recently James was the Executive Director of Kanu Hawaii, a community building organization of which he...
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How Exactly Do We Find Joy Together in Chaotic Times?

Rachel Brnjas -
We are living in chaotic times. Unemployment rates are increasing along with feelings of loneliness and isolation; people live far from family and friends and so, seek care from professionals; neighbourhoods have tall fences, automatic garage doors, and focus social...
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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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