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Care of People on the Margin

Conversations

How to Connect Neighborhood Churches to Your Local Community

Paul Sparks -
About every six weeks for the last five years, John and Peter have hosted online / dial-up conversations with community-building pioneers as their guests. For their February 20, 2018 dialog they invited Paul Sparks, a leading voice in the growing...
Stories

Parish Portrait: Mt Scott-Arleta, Portland, OR with B.D. Dormaier

Parish Collective -
How a few plants, a mural, and less pavement could bring more to a neighborhood than one big ministry. Parish Portrait: Mt Scott-Arleta, Portland, OR with B.D. Dormaier from Parish Collective on Vimeo. Home page image: Ron Dunnigton
Friends & Neighbors

Government Innovation Isn’t Your Main Problem

Al Etmanski -
Government innovation isn’t your main problem. It’s government’s. After many years of unsuccessfully peddling the processes of social innovation to governments across Canada I’ve learned: Not to peddle process. Instead to focus on proposing bold, workable solutions to problems they...
Friends & Neighbors

What to Do When the Door to the Status Quo Opens Slightly

Al Etmanski -
There are times when you manage to open the door to the status quo ever so slightly. By status quo, I refer to those organizations and institutions (foundations, big budget non-profits, universities, government ministries, health systems, police departments and so...
Friends & Neighbors

Freeing Yourself from the Consumer Culture

Peter Block -
In this wide-ranging interview Peter talks with Eric Zimmer, host and producer of The One You Feed, named one of the Best Health Podcasts of All Time by The Huffington Post. Peter discusses some of the big questions he is tackling lately,...
Friends & Neighbors

When Disaster Hits, Your First Responder Probably Will Not Be a First Responder

Ron Dwyer-Voss -
“If there were ever a place for top down systems, it is in disaster response.” That was the observation of a colleague as he explained the ICS — Incident Command System—utilized by most disaster response agencies. The ICS is pretty top-down. The...
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...
John McKnight

The Problem With Problems

John McKnight -
At a recent meeting with city managers, I was struck by how universally the focus of relationships with community was “problems.” Certainly, problems are one way of defining a part of the kinds of relationships government or any institution...
Conversations

Who Has the Skills to Build Community? We All Do

Sarah van Gelder -
About every six weeks, for the last five years, John and Peter have hosted online / dial-up conversations with community-building pioneers as their guests. For their September 12, 2017 dialog they invited YES! Magazine co-founder Sarah van Gelder to share the stories...
Friends & Neighbors

Who Has the Skills to Build Community? We All Do

Sarah van Gelder -
More than 20 years after co-founding YES!, I am launching a new project. The idea came to me when I was on the road trip that resulted in my new book, The Revolution Where You Live. As I traveled, I met people...
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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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