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Breathing Life In by Stepping Away

Laura Fulton -
Sometimes the best way to enhance our communities is to step away from them. ... this can provide a means through which we can refresh our thoughts, gain perspective and return with renewed vision and purpose. The business world has...
Stories

Discovering Others’ Gifts: Re-humanizing Our Communities

Rex Lai -
  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in seeing with NEW EYES. — Marcel Proust Did over 500 people just open their eyes? Did Core Change Cincinnati just facilitate the collective BLINK of new possibilities? The weekend of...
Friends & Neighbors

Change the Story to Change the World

Duane Elgin -
The next five to ten years represent an unprecedented break in the human journey. We are between stories, or the guiding narratives, that serve as beacons for our collective future. For example, the "American Dream" that pulled the U.S....
Friends & Neighbors

When I Grow Up: A Six-Year-Old’s Vision of a Gift Community

Bill Kauth and Zoe Alowan -
Social inventors Bill Kauth and Zoe Alowan work at the forefront of the “Gift” movement, traveling the world learning and teaching the concepts and processes of Gift Community. After one of their seminar tours last year, they received this...
Friends & Neighbors

The Key to Disaster Survival? Friends and Neighbors

Shankar Vedantam Vedantam -
After political scientist Daniel Aldrich faced Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans he started thinking about how neighbors help one another during disasters. He decided to visit disaster sites around the world, looking for data. From New Orleans to Japan...
Stories

From Backyard Lettuce to “Learning Garden” Sweet Potatoes

Abundant Community -
Joan Horwitt’s first idea was to have Ashlawn Elementary School students, teachers and neighbors grow lettuce and greens at their homes and at the school in Arlington, VA. The former Arlington County teacher, school volunteer and Washington Post dining columnist...
Friends & Neighbors

Gambling on Community in Las Vegas, NV

Richard C. Harwood -
I was in Las Vegas where I discovered a community — once on top of the world — fighting to come back in the wake of the Great Recession. What people in Las Vegas are doing offers a vision of...
Stories

Inspirations for 2012 Community

Jan Bennett -
Every new year ushers in with it new goals and resolutions made with the intent of betterment for self and community. For those who need a bit of encouragement for 2012 goal setting, State of the Re:Union passes along...
Stories

The First Wednesday Conversation in Olympia, WA

Steve Byers -
Since July 2007 Steve Byers has hosted a monthly conversation at a fair trade café in downtown Olympia, Washington. “I convened this gathering so that colleagues and friends would have a regular opportunity to engage in meaningful conversation around...
Friends & Neighbors

About Time

Clare Goff -
Now aged 77, Edgar Cahn – or “Father Time” as he is known – is showing no signs of slowing down.  The US-born inventor of timebanking is at the end of a trip to the UK, during which he...
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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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