Cooperation

“Your neighbours have everything to do with improving your immediate chances in a disaster,” says Ron Dwyer-Voss, whose work includes helping neighborhoods understand and apply asset-based strategies. Neighbors, and their collective extended connections, will determine how well and how quickly your...

Welcome This book is written to support those who care for the well-being of our community. It is for anyone who wants to be part of creating an organization, neighborhood, city, or country that works for all, and who has...

Father Joseph G. Kovitch had just been appointed the priest for St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Westerville, Ohio, when the parish came face to face with the financial realities of a dwindling congregation. A "For Sale" sign went up...

Conversation with Thom Allena 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 May 8, 2018 dialog they invited Thom Allena to talk...

Because most associations are affinity groups of like-­‐minded people, the potential for dialogue about issues is small. The focus of most associational discourse is about how to manifest their like-­‐mindedness. There is, however, a context in which associations engage...

How do we create a culture, a way of being together that affirms our relatedness? Peter's conversation with Nicole Farkouh on community and culture in organizations, neighborhoods and beyond ranges into the task of leadership as visionary not role...

As political and community discourse grows increasingly more divisive, many of our institutional responses to conflict and violation seem to escalate fear, estrangement and regrettably, a desire for retribution. In instances of protracted conflict and violation, where do we...

The question I get asked most often is, “How do you start a movement?” My answer is always, “You don’t need to start another movement. All you have to do is contribute to the movements that you are already part...

In the December 2017 issue of Athletics Administration, Thom Allena explains how restorative practices were an effective way to deal with off-field misconduct by student-athletes in a Power Five football program. Read the full article here.  

It’s my understanding that, in chemistry, a precipitant is a reagent that produces a reaction of which it is not a part. It is analogous to one form of institutional action in relationship to a local neighborhood. Most neighborhood-focused institutional...