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April Doner

April Doner is a community connector, artist, and mother who is passionate about igniting the intersection between re-weaving neighbor relationships, strengthening local economies, and healing / reconciling inequities and injustices. She is a Steward at the ABCD Institute DePaul University and, while not practicing neighboring in her own neighborhood, she trains, coaches, and consults in Asset Based Community Development. April also documents local resilience as well as group processes through various creative means including writing, photography, video, and graphic recording. Since 2020, she has curated content for AbundantCommunity.com.
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Toolshare: The Community Canvas

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What are common practices among successful communities? What do those who try to start, nurture or maintain them most struggle with? What rituals and shared experiences keep a community strong? The Community Canvas, created by Fabian Pfortmüller, Nico Luchsinger...
Stories

How the Town of Kulin went from Battling to Survive to Hosting a Race Event that Sells out in 38 Seconds

April Doner -
How can a community respond to a crisis by turning to its own strengths? The story of the small town of Kulin in Australia is an inspiring example of building local resilience by identifying, nurturing and mobilizing what is...
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Transform Your Practice: A Community Engagement Card Deck

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Many organizations and agencies are waking up to the critical nature of community engagement to the sustainability, relevance and effectiveness of their efforts. But the term and practice often remains fuzzy, undefined and elusive to those seeking to put...
Conversations

Community Empowerment thru Self-Mastery

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What is the relationship between community and self? What is the place of personal development in the work of addressing local issues and cultivating stronger local relationships? How can we hold space for conflict and for many generations in...
Conversations

Tim Vogt: Placekeeping & Holding the Long Story

Tim Vogt -
The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging.  For this week's episode we partner with April Doner and the Abundant Community to speak with Tim Vogt about an article...
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Toolshare: NEC’s Solidarity Funding Library

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On March 6, the New Economy Coalition (NEC), a membership-based network representing the solidarity economy movement in the US, launched a robust, open-source funding library to support the work of those working to create "more cooperative, transparent, and reparative...
Stories

The Plight of Local Newsrooms and its Impact on Democracy

April Doner -
What information we have about local issues, and the depth with which it's covered, is key to our engagement within society and our communities. As media conglomerates, local newsrooms and journalists committed to authentic, nuanced coverage suffer shutdowns and...
Toolkits

Toolshare for Neighborhood Economics: Shopping & Business Directory

April Doner -
I would like to invite you along for a journey I've taken toward developing a tool I'm quite excited about for cultivating "community, economy, and mutual delight" (as coined years ago by community practitioners in and around Broadway United...
Toolkits

Rethinking Thanksgiving: a Toolkit

April Doner -
As we begin to collectively acknowledge the harmful absence of indigenous perspectives in mainstream culture, we find ourselves at crossroads during celebrations and customs that have long served to hide indigenous realities. This toolkit, lifted up recently by People's...
Stories

Stories from the Garden: Growing Power, Connection in Indianapolis

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In a recent article, LaTasha Boyd-Jones named the community-rooted, "multifaceted Kheprw Institute (KI)—a beacon of hope and transformation nestled in the heart of Indianapolis." Like life itself, Kheprw's portfolio of activity, relationship and impact is interdimensional, and a compelling example...
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