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From Bayanihan to Talkoot: Communal Work Practices from Around the World

Jeffrey Andreoni -
For all of human history, societies have depended on communal work to sustain themselves into the (often unpredictable) future. However, at a certain point, that all changed. Market forces took over, and communal projects ceased to have the same...
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Why Intergenerational Thinking Is Essential to Heal the Planet

Anne Pinto-Rodrigues -
In the state of Meghalaya in northeast India, ingenious elders from the Khasi community spent decades, even centuries, building living root bridges known locally as jingkieng jri. The bridges were shaped by pulling and intertwining the aerial roots of the rubber fig tree...
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“El Cambalache” Sparks Exchange of Goods, Skills and Expertise in Chiapas, Mexico

El Cambalache -
El Cambalache is a moneyless economy project located in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas and is made by and for women and everyone who we know. In El Cambalache everything has the same value. Here people exchange things...
Friends & Neighbors

Community Ownership in Practice

Amaha Sellassie -
This recent discussion, hosted by Shareable, Resist & Build’s SE Narrative Circle, the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network, and the New Economy Coalition, offers inspiring examples of what community-ownership can look like in practice in our communities.   Imaginal Cells of the...
Stories

Citizens Forge Ahead to Directly Address Housing Crisis

Deron Hamel -
What possibilities exist if we stopped waiting for someone else to take on an issue in our community? Originally published on Axiom News, this story from Ontario gives us a glimpse into the answer regarding the crisis many communities...
Stories

Start with What You Have, Where You Are: The Kheprw Story

Kheprw Institute -
"Growing community is like growing food. It's a lot of work. You gotta till the soil. You gotta plant the seeds. You gotta have the right weather conditions. Community is just like that. You start with what you have...
Stories

Local Business by Benediction

Jonathan Massimi -
While the world has in some ways shifted from the constraints of early pandemic days, Jonathan Massimi's reflections from his parish stand out as enduring insights into the value local businesses play within our communities, beyond their purely economic...
Stories

Generative Journalism

Michelle Holliday -
How can the stories we tell about our communities and fellow community members - and the process by which we gather stories - serve to nurture their growth and aspirations while calling forth local support and connectivity? This reflection...
Latest Thinking

How Four Rural Towns Are Building Vibrant Communities Through the Tools of Creative Placemaking

Kim Kobersmith -
Whether it manifests in painting murals, repurposing public spaces, or simply rethinking how decisions get made, the art of creative placemaking is helping towns across the country address their challenges and unlock their potential.   In a small town in Minnesota,...
Latest Thinking

Weaving Global Governance from Below: Neighbourocracy and Children’s Parliaments in India

Eric Tolson -
Originally published on Sociocracy for All, this fascinating case study illustrates the capacity of children to act as effective, engaged decision-makers within their communities as well as the power of the governing tool sociocracy when employed at a neighborhood level.      The Dream,...
Stories

The making of La BOM: Montreuil’s new Library of Things and Sharing Hub

Tina Jenkins Bell -
Inspired by Shareable’s coverage of the sharing economy, Bibliothèque D’Objets De Montreuil, also known as La BOM, opened its doors as a “Library of Things” in April 2022 in the Parisian suburb of Montreuil. La BOM’s president and founder Sylvain Mustaki...
Latest Thinking

Cooperatives as Ancestral Technology

B. Vanessa Coleman -
The article below is the fourth in Nonprofit Quarterly‘s series—“Remember the Future: Culture and Systems Change,” co-produced by Art.coop and NPQ. In this series, queer, trans, and BIPOC artists and cultural bearers reflect upon the unique role that culture has...
Latest Thinking

We Make Peace

Mike Milton -
"What if you can still feel a sense of justice without reaching out to the legal system? What if you still can have access to healing without punishment? What if this person who harmed you can do the hard...
Stories

Andrea Roberts: Countering Displacement through Collective Memory

Andrea Roberts -
Our communities are places rich with layers of history. How can we enter into deeper relationship with our places, opening ourselves to the hurt and harm that the past may hold? How might knowing these histories help us navigate...
Latest Thinking

Moai—This Tradition is Why Okinawan People Live Longer, Better

Aislinn Kotifani -
Mo•ai (/mo,eye/) Japan noun A group of lifelong friends A social support group that forms in order to provide varying support from social, financial, health, or spiritual interests Elders in Okinawa, Japan, one of the original blue zones longevity hotspots, live extraordinarily...
John McKnight

Neighborhoods as Magical Places: The Connected Community Book Talk

John McKnight -
The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging. For this episode, John McKnight & Cormac Russell discuss their new book, The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth & Power...
Stories

Mutual Aid Meets the Needs of People Affected by Climate Disasters

Yvonne Marquez -
IMAGE:  HOUSTON, TEXAS - FEB 20: Volunteers direct traffic during a water distribution event at the Fountain Life Center on February 20, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Much of Texas is still struggling with historic cold weather, power outages and...
Stories

The Five Valued Experiences

Tim Vogt -
For years, Tim Vogt and the crew Starfire Council of Greater Cincinnati have been working hard at turning their once-traditional disabilities service agency inside out. Tim explains the journey of thinking that has led them from helping people in...
Stories

Why Circle is the Core Group Process for Emerging Participatory Leadership

Christina Baldwin -
We are in charge of how we meet together. Chairs and tables do not have to be bolted to the floor in long rows facing a speaker's platform. The voice of upper management is not the only voice with...
Stories

How to Integrate Gift Circles into Any Community

Regina Gelfo -
Community: the Missing Ingredient to Happiness I first learned of Gift Economy in a geodesic dome in the gorgeous middle of nowhere, Utah at a Reality Sandwich retreat in 2009. Charles Eisenstein was there speaking, and the sparkle in his eye was...
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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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