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Friends & Neighbors

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

Cormac Russell -
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...
Friends & Neighbors

The Redemption of Silicon Valley

Peter Koestenbaum -
"About 1,700 people gathered at Stanford University for the memorial of David Goldberg on Tuesday." — News release. It was the culture of mechanical hi tech heartlessness paying homage, en masse, to the higher and deeper eternal virtues of human existence. The...
Peter Block

Not the Visitation You Asked For

Peter Block -
At 5:30 a.m. EST on December 16, 2014 the Vatican held a press conference reporting on the findings and conclusions of a four-year Apostolic Visitation conducted regarding American nuns. The investigation was completed two years ago. This process called...
Friends & Neighbors

A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

Jill J. Jensen -
The challenge of modern life seems to be to learn how to cope with paradox and the sense of crazy-making it can produce. News reports are filled with horrendous tales that portray the most unpredictable elements of nature and...
Conversations

Building a Healthy and Just Community

Mike Butler -
"Mike Butler integrates theory and his own practice like no one else," Peter said of the conversation he and John had with the Longmont, CO public safety chief, who has a lifetime of experience creating a restorative community and implementing...
Friends & Neighbors

Restoring Lives: Now That’s Justice

Patrice Gaines -
It was the summer of 2009. I was on my second day of work for the U.S. Census Bureau, knocking on doors in rural South Carolina. My cell phone rang. It was my supervisor. “Patrice, headquarters called me and told me...
Friends & Neighbors

Open Letter to Journalists

Peggy Holman -
> An Open Letter to Journalists By Peggy Holman, cofounder, Journalism That Matters It’s time for a new compact between Journalists and the Public. We need you.  Your work is vital to the well-being of us all.  I can’t imagine a functional democracy without...
John McKnight

The Good Life? It’s Close to Home

Peter Block -
When family members do not work or live well together we sometimes call the family dysfunctional. We prescribe professional help for the family or advocate for social policies that would support it—child care, parental leave, extended unemployment insurance, debt...
John McKnight

The Therapeutic Neighborhood

John McKnight -
If you have a deeply troubling personal problem, where do you turn?  To a cleric? A psychologist? A counselor? A therapist? Each is a hired professional with different approaches to our dilemmas. But suppose they didn’t exist. Where would you...
Friends & Neighbors

Our Abundant Communities

John McKnight -
John, Peter and Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann explore themes of power and patriarchy; human fallibility and gifts; and accumulation and abundance in building and sustaining community in these uncut videos from their two days at Trinity University, San...
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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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