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John McKnight

How to Reduce the National Debt by 30 Trillion Dollars

John McKnight -
Anthropologists remind us that the manifestations of a community’s culture are its food, language, arts, and faith. These are the ways that have interwoven through time so that a community knows how to survive in its place. Because cultural ways...
Stories

PlacerSustain: One Community’s Exploration of the Possibility of a Sustainable Future

Jeffrey Bordelon -
We are in the midst of a global transformative change in what it means to be a "Community," and in particular, a Sustainable Community. At the heart of this change is the growing recognition that personal, social, and cultural...
Stories

Third Place Commons: The Heart of Community

Anne Stadler -
I live in Lake Forest Park—a town of about 12,000 people on the very northern edge of Seattle, Washington. That we are a town at all is an accident.  Lake Forest Park began as a real estate development located...
Stories

Growing Community I: What, Why & How?

Laura Fulton -
For anyone interested in gardens as a context for fostering learning and interaction, the next three posts are guaranteed to provide you with inspiration and practical resources.   What are community gardens and where can they exist? As new sprouts push...
John McKnight

Why Families Fall Apart

John McKnight -
One day, when my mother was in her 70’s, she told me a story about how things had changed in her small town since she was a girl. She said, When I was a girl, things were very different. When...
Peter Block

What in the Name of Reform

Peter Block -
I would like to whisper a quiet caution to those of us who are investing in institutional or structural reform efforts. There is an intensifying stream of efforts to reform our institutions. In theUSthere is government reform, education reform,...
Stories

Welcome Vashon

Bruce Anderson -
Vashon Islander Claire Bronson of c2bdesign.com contributed the graphic of the "We All Belong" event "Welcome Vashon" is a creative hub for projects and activities that welcome, connect and strengthen belonging for everyone on Vashon Island, WA. In summer 2010 a...
John McKnight

Enterprising Economy

John McKnight -
The community is the natural nest for hatching new enterprise — it is the birthplace and home of small business, which provides the largest growth in employment. Friends and family often provide the capital and sweat equity to start...
Stories

The Art of Neighboring … Continued

John McKnight -
Everyone opened up. I opened up. I opened up my home for the progressive dinner and for Easter too. I never thought to do that before. I kept to myself mostly, maybe saw the neighbors across the street. People...
John McKnight

5 Questions to Awaken Your Functional Family

Peter Block -
The path to restoring function to the family in a citizen society, not a consumer society, is quite simple. It begins with five questions.   1. What functions can we put back into the hands of young people?  Whether they are our kids...
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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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