Cooperation

From meeting with gang leaders and asking their permission to work with their members to helping families get their shot-out windows repaired, Gary Ivory shared stories from his pioneering work with Youth Advocate Programs (YAP) in Tarrant County, Texas,...

Reconnecting Juvenile Offenders and Their Communities Conversation with Gary Ivory ~ January 16, 2019 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 January...

John and Peter talk with nationally recognized youth advocate Gary Ivory on reimagining how to connect juvenile offenders to their communities. https://www.facebook.com/AbundantCommunity/videos/235130710704327/

Profound social change requires movements. Movements open our hearts and minds. They create the favourable political conditions for legislative change, resource allocation and policy shifts.... Social movements do two things much better than other forms of organizing. Social movements do two...

One way of understanding who represents a neighbor is their elected representative. Nonetheless, there are other neighborhood groups and associations that claim they also represent the neighbors. In the 50‘s, 60’s and 70’s, the then Mayor Daley in Chicago was...

Conversation with Paula Ellis ~ November 27, 2018 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 Novemmber 27, 2018 dialog they invited Paula...

In Recasting the Narratives That Shape Our Lives, Paula Ellis, a leader in journalism innovation, transformative change, and employee and community engagement, describes how innovators in journalism are reimagining and experimenting with what journalism might look like today.

When you enter the storefront office of a neighborhood organization in Montreal, the first thing you see is a large sign: MONEY Do we really need it? Do we have it here? What can we trade for it? Must we beg for it? The Chairperson...

div style="padding:10px 0 10px 0;">Joining a new group or attending an event can sometimes feel a little unnerving. We may not know the rules, the other people attending seem to already know each other and we might be anxious...

Peter talks with Weaving Influence's Becky Robinson about how to create and foster community, why community is so important, and why we feel increasingly lonely in a world that keeps us "connected" via technology.   Related: Community: The Structure of Belonging (Block) ...