Care of People on the Margin

Looking Back to Look Forward: The Intellectual Heritage of Asset-Based Community Development

In 1995 John McKnight and Jody Kretzmann convened a circle of friends to help them establish the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute at Northwestern University. The Institute was built on John and Jody’s work and research over more than...

Timebanking Rich in Possibilities

Sometimes the significance of a happening revisits you much later. When, several years ago, I found myself in a carload of folks that included pioneer of timebanking, Edgar Cahn, I felt very honoured but certainly didn’t imagine what might...

Sharing Is Not Just for the Young

The Hopi Chief Dan Evehema said it for all of us prospective elders before he passed on in 1999 at age 108: There is a river flowing now, very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who...

Building Community, Economy and Mutual “Delight”

Robert Thompson and co-host Mike Neiss continue their Leadership for the Common Good blogtalkradio series with an interview with De Amon Harges. DeAmon is the original “Roving Listener” as a neighbor and staff member of the Broadway United Methodist Church in Indianapolis....

From Charity to Empowerment: Interview with Mike Mather of Indianapolis’s Broadway UMC

Conversation with John, Peter and Mike Mather: From Charity to Empowerment Download or listen to John and Peter's conversation with Mike Mather, the pastor of Broadway United Methodist Church in Indianapolis. Their conversation centered on what truly innovative institutions can do to make the...

Veggies at the Liquor Store — and 5 Other Ways to Bring Food to Your Community

1. Backyard bounty In the Westwood neighborhood of Denver, Re:farm Denver is growing a cooperative food economy from the backyard out. Re:farm supplies families with everything they need for backyard gardens, from irrigation systems to seeds. The program has grown rapidly,...

Social Innovation: A Definition of Opportunity

When asked recently to define social innovation I replied rather off-handedly it’s a combination of the old, the new and the surprising. It’s not much of a definition but then again the ambiguity might be useful. Definitions all too often...

Death and Resurrection of an Urban Church

The Rev. Mike Mather walks with the youth at Broadway United Methodist Church in Indianapolis. The church has closed many of its traditional helping ministries and created new ways to connect and support the community surrounding it.   For an idea of...

Replace the Gospel of Money: An Interview With David Korten

David Korten began his professional life as a professor at the Harvard Business School on a mission to lift struggling people in Third World nations out of poverty by sharing the secrets of U.S. business success. Yet, after a...

The Time Banking Way of Giving and Receiving Gifts

Edgar Cahn, the founder of Time Banks, joins Robert Thompson and co-host Mike Neiss in their latest installment of their Leadership and the Common Good series on blogtalkradio. What exactly is Time Banking? Why has Cahn dedicated much of his life to this effort? Their exploration...

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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,...