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How a City Solicitor Builds Community and a Neighborhood Economy

John McKnight -
Most of our focus on abundant communities is about what citizens can do to create stronger neighborhood connections and work on projects together or about how citizens are taking back into their own hands what the years of outsourcing...
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A Place at the Table

Edd Conboy -
Conversation with John McKnight, Peter Block and Guest Edd Conboy TalkShoe Radio  ~  August 8, 2015 https://www.talkshoe.com/recording/attachment/key/19dba83a6619d51024249edf98bb5c335fa30d23.mp3 Peter: I met Edd Conboy about three years ago when I was a guest at a daylong conference and I was able to get a...
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Powering Communities and Empowering People

John McKnight -
Conversation with Ruston Seaman John and special guest Ruston Seaman of New Vision Renewable Energy talk about different ways about different ways people and communities can enable others to recognize and use their gifts to do great things wherever they...
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The Story of New Vision

Abundant Community -
"Everywhere I go there seems to be a natural curiosity about new ways to solve old problems: what will we eat, what will we drink and where will we stay at night?” says Ruston Seaman, co-founder of New Vision...
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Working in the Gap to Enhance Citizen Productivity

John McKnight -
Conversation with Tom Mosgaller John, Peter, special guest Tom Mosgaller and others from the front lines of community work talk  about different ways people working in the “gap” can enable systems to shift from needs to gifts so that institutions...
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Time Banking: Edgar Cahn and Peter Block on Thought Grenades

Edgar Cahn -
Peter and Edgar Cahn, the founder of TimeBanks, join Robert Thompson and co-host, Mike Neiss in their latest installment of Leadership and the Common Good. What exactly is TimeBanking and why has Cahn dedicated much of his life to this effort? Cahn answers this question and more...
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Restorative Justice: Peter Block and Mike Butler on Thought Grenades

Peter Block -
Peter and Mike Butler, Chief of Safety for Longmont, Colorado, join Robert Thompson and co-host Mike Neiss to kick off their first installment of Leadership for the Common Good, a new Thought Grenades series that highlights real leaders solving real problems in real time. In their...
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Conversation with John and Peter: The Hometown of Your Dreams

Jeff Yost -
Conversation with Jeff Yost John, Peter and their special guest Jeff Yost talk about different ways neighborhoods, communities and local organizations can organize and manage economic and social assets to support places where people want to live, raise families, do business, work...
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Rebuilding Journalism: Peter Block and Chuck Peters on Thought Grenades

Peter Block -
What is The Gazette Company doing that is so unique?  How do print, digital and broadcast work together in this new system? Is this the future of quality journalism? Learn the answers to these questions and more as Thought Grenades co-hosts Robert...
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Freedom at Work

Peter Block -
Listen or download Running time: 00:73:00 Tami Simon: You're listening to Insights at the Edge. In this episode, I speak with Peter Block. Peter Block is an author, consultant, and resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, whose work focuses upon chosen accountability and...
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Facilitating Community: A Virtual Conversation with Peter Block

Peter Block -
During this hour-long conversation moderated by Martin Pearson of the UK's Kinharvie Institute, Peter shares his vision of what it means to be an abundant community and outlines ways to make the communities where we work, play and live move...
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Lawyers As Peacemakers: Peter Block and J. Kim Wright on Thought Grenades

Peter Block -
Thought Grenades co-hosts Robert Thompson and Mike Neiss talk with Peter and his guest, J. Kim Wright, author of Lawyers as Peacemakers, in a thought-provoking discussion of how lawyers can practice holistic, problem-solving law. Running time: 00:30:29 Listen here at Thought Grenades.
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Transformational Leadership: Awakening the Power of Community

Peter Block -
Peter and VoiceAmerica Business host Kate Ebner have a big conversation that challenges conventional wisdom about leadership — and share what you can do as a citizen to shape our future. Click Here listen. Running time: 58:08
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How Our Religious Narratives Affect Us

Walter Brueggemann -
Where are we going to look for our future? Where can we find stories and language of neighborliness? How can we bring narratives of fallibility, faith, relatedness, forgiveness, and apology into the center of our conversations of community? These...
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Connecting4Community Conference Call

John McKnight -
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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Peter Block: On Robert Thompson’s Thought Grenades

Robert H. Thompson -
Peter chats with Robert Thompson and Mike Neiss about small things with large results for empowering neighborhoods and building community. Listen Here on Thought Grenades.
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Peter Block: Focusing on What Is Possible

Peter Block -
What happens when people choose to focus on what they can achieve to improve their communities, not just on what is wrong? This is the question that leads to successful community change, Peter says, as he talks about how people and...
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John McKnight: Building Grass-Roots Movements

John McKnight -
Interview with Hildy Gottlieb of Making Change, podcast of The Chronicle of Philanthropy December 8, 2010 Podcast and full article here.
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John McKnight and Peter Block: The Abundant Community

John McKnight -
Interview with Wayne Hurlbert on Blog Talk Radio November 23, 2010 Listen to the podcast here.
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Peter Block: Empowerment, Stewardship and Bringing Communities Together One Conversation at a Time

Peter Block -
Interview with Mary Claybon of Middle Way Health November 4, 2010 Listen to the interview podcast here.
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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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