Hospitality

Interview with Peter Block

I had the pleasure of interviewing Peter about how we understand and enact community within the framework of our lives that exist in place-based communities, taking into account the complexities of our simultaneous allegiances to multiple communities. Peter also...

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

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...

Interview with John McKnight

I had the pleasure of interviewing John about how we understand and enact community within the framework of our lives that exist in place-based communities, taking into account the complexities of our simultaneous allegiances to multiple communities. John also...

The Neighborhood Café and Other Hospitable Places

 “Friendship is dependent on combining enough gifts among a group of people that the properties of association and hospitality can be manifested.” — The Abundant Community Have you ever been to a place where it just feels wonderfully good to spend...

Wiser Together: Partnering Across Generations

Tucked away in the small Appalachian community of Burnsville, North Carolina, is a family farm and a place of meeting that has recently become the new home base for Juanita Brown and David Isaacs, co-founders of the World Café....

Thriving in a Post-Consumerist Society

What does a thriving way of life look like in a post-consumerist society? Many aspects of a thriving future can be found by stepping into a contemporary co-housing community or eco-village. To illustrate, my wife and I lived in a...

A Decentralist Reading List

Recommendations from the founder of The Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont's free-market public policy research and education organization; widely published commentator on Vermont issues;  co-author of The Vermont Papers and editor of the Institute’s monthly Ethan Allen Letter. Herbert Agar  Land of...

Library? Or Welcome Wagon, Day Care, Counseling and Job Center?

In Notus, Idaho, librarian Jo Ellen Ringer has created a community hub for the town’s citizens. Her answers to the Public Insight Network’s survey about the role of libraries in civic life show how deep-seated caring and a little...

Q & A

If it takes a village to raise a child, it would look like...   Anne M. Stadler, a co-founder of Third Place Commons in Lake Forest Park, WA and other Puget Sound area community groups, said: Something like what our neighborhood circle...

Cup Mail

This summer I a spent a week observing life in and around The Falling Rock Cafe in Munising, Michigan.  No, I did not receive a MacArthur Grant or other fellowship for observing coffee shops, although if you know of...

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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,...