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We All Belong

Bruce Anderson -
I was contacted in the fall by a disability leader in our community and asked to help figure out how to build more “inclusion” opportunities for students in our school system that wanted to belong more in our town....
Stories

Welcome Vashon

Bruce Anderson -
Vashon Islander Claire Bronson of c2bdesign.com contributed the graphic of the "We All Belong" event "Welcome Vashon" is a creative hub for projects and activities that welcome, connect and strengthen belonging for everyone on Vashon Island, WA. In summer 2010 a...
Peter Block

Six Conversations That Matter: A Quick Review

Peter Block -
There is a great deal written and practiced about creating new conversations, all of which is valuable and holds the same spirit as what is outlined here. For example, for some time there has been an important dialogue movement...
Peter Block

Like-mindedness, Technology and the Risk to Community

Peter Block -
We live in a time of growing like-mindedness, which we believe to be a good thing. We want to be with people who have common interests, views, values, you name it. Plus with our new technology, finding and meeting...
John McKnight

Enterprising Economy

John McKnight -
The community is the natural nest for hatching new enterprise — it is the birthplace and home of small business, which provides the largest growth in employment. Friends and family often provide the capital and sweat equity to start...
John McKnight

Support Community-Building Clergy

John McKnight -
A convivial friend, Dan Grego, says that the future of our country depends upon whether we can learn how to help each other, outside of the market. One of the most significant reasons that we don’t help each other in...
Stories

The Art of Neighboring … Continued

John McKnight -
Everyone opened up. I opened up. I opened up my home for the progressive dinner and for Easter too. I never thought to do that before. I kept to myself mostly, maybe saw the neighbors across the street. People...
John McKnight

Rallying the Strength of Community

John McKnight -
“The Clearness Committee is not a cure-all,” says Parker Palmer in the excerpt from A Hidden Wholeness we posted recently in The Therapeutic Neighborhood. “But for the right person, with the right issue, it is a powerful way to...
John McKnight

5 Questions to Awaken Your Functional Family

Peter Block -
The path to restoring function to the family in a citizen society, not a consumer society, is quite simple. It begins with five questions.   1. What functions can we put back into the hands of young people?  Whether they are our kids...
John McKnight

The Good Life? It’s Close to Home

Peter Block -
When family members do not work or live well together we sometimes call the family dysfunctional. We prescribe professional help for the family or advocate for social policies that would support it—child care, parental leave, extended unemployment insurance, debt...
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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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