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Being Alive

Michelle Long -
BALLE Executive Director Michelle Long answers the question “If you had five minutes to convey what being alive means to you, what would you say?”   Re-posted from the “Stories from the Road” web short series from Festival of Faiths, which used...
Stories

Local Works

Abundant Community -
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...
Stories

Growing Local: Interview with BALLE’s Michelle Long

Brooke Jarvis -
Bellingham, Washingon is the nation's leader in community green power, was named the number one small city in the nation in urban progress toward sustainability, and is home to businesses, consumers, and government programs that make creating a "local living...
Friends & Neighbors

10 Ways to Become More Grateful

Robert A. Emmons -
1. Keep a Gratitude Journal Establish a daily practice in which you remind yourself of the gifts, grace, benefits, and good things you enjoy. Setting aside time on a daily basis to recall moments of gratitude associated with ordinary events,...
Friends & Neighbors

The Economics of Compassion: Can This City Wipe Out Debt by 2019?

Sarah van Gelder -
Cincinnati, Ohio, is among the fastest growing cities in the Midwest. It hosts corporate giants like Procter & Gamble and Kroger, and some of its close-in neighborhoods have become chic, with coffee shops and new condominiums. But prosperity is not...
Friends & Neighbors

New Scoop Interviews Member Peter Block

Sarah Arthurs -
Peter Block is the author of Community: The Structure of Belonging and one of the leading thinkers about community development. We were very excited when he became a member of New Scoop last winter and recently asked him why he joined...
Stories

New Scoop Members Working Pot Luck

Sarah Arthurs -
It was a good night, all the food groups were covered in the potluck and in the conversation.  There was the delicious randomness of potlucks — vegetarian loaf, bruschetta, fresh bread, brie, samosas, salad, pecan pie, mini cream puffs and...
Stories

An Introvert Cooks Dinner for 80 — and Learns Something About Community

Shannon Hayes -
I love my solitude. I also love my community. But my independent nature has never been unusual in this town. The first time I heard the expression “There’s no ‘I’ in ‘team,’” I swore off organized school sports. I told...
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.  
Stories

The Great Veggie Grow Off Cultivates Strong Communities and Lots of Fresh Food

Leslie Stephen -
The Lanark County Food Bank in Ontario, Canada, believes in a little friendly competition, especially one like the Great Veggie Grow Off that benefits people who rely on the Food Bank to put nourishing food on their tables every...
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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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