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How to Use Local Assets to Make Your Community Effective

Peter Block -
Download or listen to John and Peter's March 5 conversation with Mary Nelson on asset-based approaches to building community generally and what makes them effective. Mary is the founder and longtime Director of Bethel New Life, one of the nation's best neighborhood development...
Friends & Neighbors

“The Well” ~ A Symbol of Healthy Community

Jeffrey Bordelon -
The I Ching is an ancient Chinese book of 64 oracular readings that reflect enduring wisdom that predates and includes Confucianism and Taoism. The readings consist of archetypal circumstances with guidance on how the individual may act in harmony...
John McKnight

Modern Mentoring

John McKnight -
For decades, mentoring has been a respected and valued approach to assisting youth — usually those thought to be problematic. The typical nature of the activity is a relationship between a volunteer adult and a young person, most frequently a...
Stories

Meet Mary Nelson

Mary Nelson -
Mary Nelson is on the faculty of the Northwestern University’s Asset Based Community Development Institute (ABCD) and consults, speaks and does workshops in the U.S. and internationally (South Africa, Australia, East Timor, Germany, Mexico). She is currently serving as interim Executive...
Stories

Growing Global Divisiveness Gets Disrupted

Michelle Strutzenberger -
Ian Edwards is nervous about the world he’s leaving his 14-year-old son, particularly the divisiveness he sees happening at an increasingly disturbing rate with all kinds of people. “It seems much greater than when I was younger,” the Boulder, Colorado...
Stories

A Gift from a Taxi Driver

Gerard Ee -
Gerard’s story says more than all the speaking, action steps and theory some of us spend our time on. On the professional question, we all speak for the citizen, but every place needs someone like Gerard, paid to create...
Friends & Neighbors

Strengthening Government and Community through Genuine Partnerships

Jim Diers -
Local governments everywhere tend to think of their jurisdictions as places and people with needs. They seek to address these needs by relying on tax revenues and bureaucratic expertise. Such a top-down approach may be appropriate at times, but...
Stories

Building Government–Community Partnerships

Jim Diers -
Jim Diers has been called "the Albert Einstein of local government" and "the Pied Piper of the Seattle Neighborhood movement." Not without reason. Experience his energy and insights in video highlights from one of his 2012 Neighborhood Strengthening presentations...
Stories

Building Government–Community Partnerships

Jim Diers -
Jim Diers has been called "the Albert Einstein of local government" and "the Pied Piper of the Seattle Neighborhood movement." Not without reason. Experience his energy and insights in video highlights from one of his 2012 Neighborhood Strengthening presentations...
Stories

Lessons in Community from Chicago’s South Side

Benedict Carey -
Robert J. Sampson and his colleagues have devoted decades to studying the enduring impact of place.* They have found that two factors often predict whether a neighborhood is crime prone: Is there mutual trust and altruism among neighbors? and...
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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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