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The Ecology of Democracy: Five Questions That Aren’t Usually Asked

David Mathews -
Kettering Foundation president and CEO David Mathews explains how people and communities can get greater control over their collective future. One way to do this is to ask questions that will reveal new possibilities for acting together on shared...
Friends & Neighbors

From Subject to Citizen

The Kettering Foundation -
In an early draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote a word and then carefully expunged it, smearing the ink and overwriting it so as to completely obliterate the original. Using spectral imaging technology in 2010, Library...
Friends & Neighbors

For Communities to Work

David Mathews -
Excerpts and illustrations from For Communities to Work, by David Mathews, © the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, posted by permission. To download the complete work click here. Having spent studying communities, the Kettering Foundation, a nonpartisan research organization, has...
Peter Block

Change the Conversation, Change the Culture

Peter Block -
In his presentation, “Change the Conversation, Change the Culture,” at the International Institute for Restorative Practices 19th World Conference, Peter reviews the basis and protocols for the small group methodology of community engagement and talks about his views on...
Friends & Neighbors

12 Thoughts on Inclusive Community Building for 2016

Cormac Russell -
January When we lose the ability to care for our neighbours, we also inadvertently chart a course towards a future wherein that carelessness becomes our inheritance. Neighbourliness is embodied in the practice of welcomiReflectionsng the stranger at the edge, and the...
Stories

Stone Soup Moments

Sarah Arthurs -
What are Stone Soup Moments and how do you know that one has occurred? The soup created by Bev Webber, a Red Seal trained chef, and served at the Unitarian Church  community roundtable was corn chowder. But it was actually...
Friends & Neighbors

Strategies for a New Economy

Michelle Long -
Recorded live at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics 2012 Strategies for a New Economy Conference in 2012, BALLE Executive Director Michelle Long speaks about the importance of investing in local business to advance the New Economy Movement.   Related   ...
Friends & Neighbors

Being Alive

Michelle Long -
BALLE Executive Director Michelle Long answers the question “If you had five minutes to convey what being alive means to you, what would you say?”   Re-posted from the “Stories from the Road” web short series from Festival of Faiths, which used...
Stories

Local Works

Abundant Community -
Lowcountry Local First is a grassroots movement of education, outreach and relationship building that promotes the many benefits of buying from local, independent businesses and farmers, including cultivating, growing and sustaining the Lowcountry economy and culture — the community’s way...
Stories

Growing Local: Interview with BALLE’s Michelle Long

Brooke Jarvis -
Bellingham, Washingon is the nation's leader in community green power, was named the number one small city in the nation in urban progress toward sustainability, and is home to businesses, consumers, and government programs that make creating a "local living...
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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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