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How to Connect Neighborhood Churches to Your Local Community

Paul Sparks -
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 February 20, 2018 dialog they invited Paul Sparks, a leading voice in the growing...
Friends & Neighbors

Freeing Yourself from the Consumer Culture

Peter Block -
In this wide-ranging interview Peter talks with Eric Zimmer, host and producer of The One You Feed, named one of the Best Health Podcasts of All Time by The Huffington Post. Peter discusses some of the big questions he is tackling lately,...
Friends & Neighbors

5 Ways Science Says Kindness Will Change Your Life

Birju Pandya -
We tend to think of capacities such as kindness as individual traits, John and Peter say in The Abundant Community, but kindness can also be thought of as a communal trait. In the case of individual kindness, we might say,...
Friends & Neighbors

When Disaster Hits, Your First Responder Probably Will Not Be a First Responder

Ron Dwyer-Voss -
“If there were ever a place for top down systems, it is in disaster response.” That was the observation of a colleague as he explained the ICS — Incident Command System—utilized by most disaster response agencies. The ICS is pretty top-down. The...
John McKnight

The Problem With Problems

John McKnight -
At a recent meeting with city managers, I was struck by how universally the focus of relationships with community was “problems.” Certainly, problems are one way of defining a part of the kinds of relationships government or any institution...
Conversations

Who Has the Skills to Build Community? We All Do

Sarah van Gelder -
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 September 12, 2017 dialog they invited YES! Magazine co-founder Sarah van Gelder to share the stories...
Friends & Neighbors

Who Has the Skills to Build Community? We All Do

Sarah van Gelder -
More than 20 years after co-founding YES!, I am launching a new project. The idea came to me when I was on the road trip that resulted in my new book, The Revolution Where You Live. As I traveled, I met people...
Stories

I Saw the Revolution in So Many of the Small Places We Call Home

Sarah van Gelder -
The following is an excerpt from The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000 Mile Journey Through a New America. The real change we need to stop the social and ecological unraveling can be found in the neighborhoods and cities,...
Stories

The Revolution Where You Live

Sarah van Gelder -
YES! Magazine co-founder and editor at large Sarah van Gelder talks about her 12,000-mile journey to find out what people are doing in their communities about poverty, inequality, the climate crisis, and racism.   Related:   I Saw the Revolution in So...
Friends & Neighbors

Seize the Opportunity of Crisis to Rebuild Community

Jim Diers -
When I visited Taiwan earlier this year, I was reminded that the Chinese word for crisis is comprised of two characters, one meaning danger and the other opportunity. In every crisis there is opportunity. Our world is confronted by...
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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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