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Local Economy

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Building Community, Economy and Mutual “Delight”

Robert Thompson and Mike Neiss -
Robert Thompson and co-host Mike Neiss continue their Leadership for the Common Good blogtalkradio series with an interview with De Amon Harges. DeAmon is the original “Roving Listener” as a neighbor and staff member of the Broadway United Methodist Church in Indianapolis....
Stories

From Charity to Empowerment: Interview with Mike Mather of Indianapolis’s Broadway UMC

John McKnight And Peter Block -
Conversation with John, Peter and Mike Mather: From Charity to Empowerment Download or listen to John and Peter's conversation with Mike Mather, the pastor of Broadway United Methodist Church in Indianapolis. Their conversation centered on what truly innovative institutions can do to make the...
Stories

Veggies at the Liquor Store — and 5 Other Ways to Bring Food to Your Community

Shannan Stoll -
1. Backyard bounty In the Westwood neighborhood of Denver, Re:farm Denver is growing a cooperative food economy from the backyard out. Re:farm supplies families with everything they need for backyard gardens, from irrigation systems to seeds. The program has grown rapidly,...
Friends & Neighbors

Social Innovation: A Definition of Opportunity

Al Etmanski -
When asked recently to define social innovation I replied rather off-handedly it’s a combination of the old, the new and the surprising. It’s not much of a definition but then again the ambiguity might be useful. Definitions all too often...
Stories

Death and Resurrection of an Urban Church

Faith & Leadership -
The Rev. Mike Mather walks with the youth at Broadway United Methodist Church in Indianapolis. The church has closed many of its traditional helping ministries and created new ways to connect and support the community surrounding it.   For an idea of...
Stories

The Belonging Revolution: Giving Life to a New Community Narrative

Lisa Bailey -
The road to revolution begins with a walk through the neighbourhood. That’s what’s sparking for Mike Butler and Dan Benavidez as what they call “the Belonging Revolution” unfolds in their community of Longmont, Colorado. Since last July, Mike and Dan have...
Stories

Grace Hearth: A Community Movement Through Soul-warming Food

Rishi O -
Keri Keifer and Jocelyn Jackson found cooking as a way to create change by engaging their local community while nourishing their creative souls at the same time. Their distinguished catering company in Oakland, California, sources from local farmers and...
Friends & Neighbors

Replace the Gospel of Money: An Interview With David Korten

Dean Paton -
David Korten began his professional life as a professor at the Harvard Business School on a mission to lift struggling people in Third World nations out of poverty by sharing the secrets of U.S. business success. Yet, after a...
Stories

The Time Banking Way of Giving and Receiving Gifts

Robert Thompson and Mike Neiss -
Edgar Cahn, the founder of Time Banks, joins Robert Thompson and co-host Mike Neiss in their latest installment of their Leadership and the Common Good series on blogtalkradio. What exactly is Time Banking? Why has Cahn dedicated much of his life to this effort? Their exploration...
Friends & Neighbors

Working in the Gap

Deb Wisniewski -
Often, when you get together with a group of people interested in Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD), you find a conversation about the gifts of individuals and what communities can do for themselves. But what about institutions? Institutions have been...
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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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