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Strangers Become Family at This Multigenerational Housing Project

Kim Eckert -
Cheryl Crowell and her four boys are known around Bridge Meadows as the "First Family" because they were the first to move in when the community opened in 2011. Left to right: Noah, Cheryl, Joaquin, Tomas, and Eli Crowell....
Friends & Neighbors

Are We There Yet?

Sarah Arthurs -
In a recent interview in preparation for NewScoop's conversation on An Other Kingdom, John explored the questions How will we know when we have departed the consumer culture? and How will we know we have arrived?  John believes that as we see three particular...
Stories

Top 21 Reasons to Live in Branch

Abundant Community -
Priscilla Corcoran Mooney was just 30 years old when she became her town’s mayor. A community of approximately 250 people on the Cape Shore of Newfoundland, Canada, the Town of Branch knows how to focus on their assets and...
Friends & Neighbors

More with Professor Adam Clark

Adam Clark -
Adam Clark talks about today’s form of slavery and how, in addition to protest, we need to turn towards something paralleling the beloved community of the sixties. He also talks about how consumerism has become our modern religion and...
Friends & Neighbors

Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann and John McKnight in Conversation

Peter Block -
John and Peter were joined in their conversation on March 8, 2018 by Walter Brueggemann, co-author of their recently released new book An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture. Also joining them were special guests and friends Peter Pula and...
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...
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...
Friends & Neighbors

The Economics of Compassion: Can This City Wipe Out Debt by 2019?

Sarah van Gelder -
Cincinnati, Ohio, is among the fastest growing cities in the Midwest. It hosts corporate giants like Procter & Gamble and Kroger, and some of its close-in neighborhoods have become chic, with coffee shops and new condominiums. But prosperity is not...
Friends & Neighbors

John McKnight: What I Have Learned So Far

Philip Booth -
John reflects on ABCD's history, practice and future in his keynote address at the 2015 ABCD Festival held in Blackpool, England, to mark the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Asset Based Community Development Institute.   Video by Philip Booth.  
Stories

The Abundant Community Initiative Edmonton

Kim Hopes -
Inspired by John McKnight and Peter Block’s book, “The Abundant Community,” Howard Lawrence undertook a pilot project called the Abundant Community Initiative in Edmonton, Canada in January 2013. Howard started with the idea that local residents have gifts, skills, abilities and knowledge...
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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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