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Timebanking Rich in Possibilities

Michelle Strutzenberger -
Sometimes the significance of a happening revisits you much later. When, several years ago, I found myself in a carload of folks that included pioneer of timebanking, Edgar Cahn, I felt very honoured but certainly didn’t imagine what might...
Stories

Making Space for Community

John McKnight -
  Conversation with John, Peter and Ross Chapin: Making Space for Community Download or listen to John and Peter's conversation with architect, community planner and author Ross Chapin, the leader in defining and designing pocket neighborhoods. Ross believes that scale and design...
Friends & Neighbors

Take a Walk on the Jane Side

Jay Walljasper -
Spring is back, so here's a fresh idea to celebrate the season and discover hidden pleasures in your neighborhood — organize a Jane’s Walk. Since 2007, thousands of people in more than 100 cities around the world enjoy May exploring nature, culture, history...
Friends & Neighbors

Jane Jacobs: A Woman Ahead of Her Time

David Bolllier -
Not many people have the imagination, intellectual depth and sheer courage to take on an entire profession and demonstrate how it is wrong. Jane Jacobs did. The renegade author and activist — who died in 2006 at age 89...
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The Story of New Vision

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"Everywhere I go there seems to be a natural curiosity about new ways to solve old problems: what will we eat, what will we drink and where will we stay at night?” says Ruston Seaman, co-founder of New Vision...
Stories

The Story of Ruth: How a Solar Light Changed the Course of One Girl’s Life Forever

New Vision Renewable Energy -
Ruth is one of many young girls in the Maasai community, in a remote village in Kenya, where it is common for girls her age to stop going to school after finishing their primary education. Without further education, young girls...
Stories

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...
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...
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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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