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Friends & Neighbors

Organizational Culture of Fear: The Shadow Side of US Culture

Peter Block -
CJ Liu's interview with Peter on her popular YouTube show "Fire It Up with CJ" was supposed to be about his book Flawless Consulting. Instead, in their intimate, touching, funny and profound conversation they light on topics ranging from personal...
Stories

Apple Street Market

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A documentary video from the Cincinnati Union Co-operative Initiative shows how the city's Northside neighborhood is using community ownership to solve the problem of urban supermarket shortage.   Image courtesy the Cincinnati Union Co-operative Initiative
Stories

Local Works

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Lowcountry Local First is a grassroots movement of education, outreach and relationship building that promotes the many benefits of buying from local, independent businesses and farmers, including cultivating, growing and sustaining the Lowcountry economy and culture — the community’s way...
Friends & Neighbors

John McKnight: What I Have Learned So Far

Philip Booth -
John reflects on ABCD's history, practice and future in his keynote address at the 2015 ABCD Festival held in Blackpool, England, to mark the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Asset Based Community Development Institute.   Video by Philip Booth.  
Podcasts

The Story of New Vision

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"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...
John McKnight

“No One Is Doing What You Are Doing”

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John comments on the significance of the work Nebraska Community Foundation and its affiliated funds are doing: how they have grown local community development foundations, many in small rural areas, by focusing on what local people can offer to their communities...
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Associations and Conspiracies

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There's a reason dictators around the world and through time have viewed associations as conspiracies. John reflects on associational life as the most powerful force neighborhoods have to produce positive change and build community.   Related:    John McKnight on Associations (video)   Home page...
John McKnight

The Stranger

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A powerful neighborhood is hospitable; it welcomes strangers, people we don't know. John explains the fullness of what that means and how hospitality enriches our lives.     Home page image: Ramashng
Peter Block

Life-Giving Journalism

Peter Block -
In Part Two of his interview with Peter Pula of Axiom News, Peter explores how the Axiom approach to investigative journalism is to look for stories that have the capacity to give the community life instead of focusing on its...
Videos

Flying Down

John McKnight -
John reminds us that progress is not all that it seems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHP5mC_KYX8
Peter Block

Putting the Storyteller Back into Journalism

Peter Pula -
In Part One of Peter's interview with Peter Pula, CEO of Axiom News, they explore how generative journalism differs from mainstream media in framing questions, making space for silence and restoring storytelling to the craft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOxzj4RpXqY Going Further: In Part Two, Peter...
John McKnight

Government Is Not the Problem

John McKnight -
Government is not the biggest threat to community life, as it was thought to be when the First Amendment to the Constitution was drafted. John and Peter reflect on how today’s “imperial institutions” of the not-for-profit world and corporate...
John McKnight

We Are the Authority

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Chicago's Westside Health Authority started a quarter century ago when faced with declining government investment in healthcare neighbors asked, "What can WE do, and do it our way?" Created from the idea that citizens are the best authority on their own...
John McKnight

The Real Disability Is Disconnection

John McKnight -
Pat Worth had been labeled retarded as a child and was living on a park bench when he decided to organize people who shared his experience. The organization he formed is now known as People First. In this video post,...
John McKnight

The Institutional Assumption

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The “institutional assumption” — for example, thinking in terms of medical care, clinics, insurance, outreach instead of health — is the most consistent failure in our thinking about change. If we start by looking at the condition we're interested in,...
John McKnight

Taking Back Our Children

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John McKnight

Learning from Other Neighborhoods

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John McKnight

This Land Is My Land

John McKnight -
  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
Peter Block

The Point Is the Place

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John McKnight

Citizen Cop Out

John McKnight -
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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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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