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Friends & Neighbors

Power is Bond

April Doner -
The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging. In this episode, Common Good partnered with April Doner and the Abundant Community to speak with Yuki Jackson.   Yuki Jackson...
Stories

Start with What You Have, Where You Are: The Kheprw Story

Kheprw Institute -
"Growing community is like growing food. It's a lot of work. You gotta till the soil. You gotta plant the seeds. You gotta have the right weather conditions. Community is just like that. You start with what you have...
Stories

Generative Journalism

Michelle Holliday -
How can the stories we tell about our communities and fellow community members - and the process by which we gather stories - serve to nurture their growth and aspirations while calling forth local support and connectivity? This reflection...
Latest Thinking

Weaving Global Governance from Below: Neighbourocracy and Children’s Parliaments in India

Eric Tolson -
Originally published on Sociocracy for All, this fascinating case study illustrates the capacity of children to act as effective, engaged decision-makers within their communities as well as the power of the governing tool sociocracy when employed at a neighborhood level.      The Dream,...
Friends & Neighbors

Flourishing Neighborhoods

Angela Fell -
This short speech was given at an event that Local Trust ran in partnership with the Big Tent Ideas Festival on Levelling up ‘left behind’ Britain – the importance of a hyper-local focus in April 2021. Angela Fell was invited to speak on behalf...
Latest Thinking

Cooperatives as Ancestral Technology

B. Vanessa Coleman -
The article below is the fourth in Nonprofit Quarterly‘s series—“Remember the Future: Culture and Systems Change,” co-produced by Art.coop and NPQ. In this series, queer, trans, and BIPOC artists and cultural bearers reflect upon the unique role that culture has...
Stories

Andrea Roberts: Countering Displacement through Collective Memory

Andrea Roberts -
Our communities are places rich with layers of history. How can we enter into deeper relationship with our places, opening ourselves to the hurt and harm that the past may hold? How might knowing these histories help us navigate...
John McKnight

Neighborhoods as Magical Places: The Connected Community Book Talk

John McKnight -
The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging. For this episode, John McKnight & Cormac Russell discuss their new book, The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth & Power...
Friends & Neighbors

‘Beloved Community’ is a Present Possibility

Amaha Sellassie -
As a student of Dr. King, one of the many things I appreciate about him is that he didn’t see “beloved community” merely as a far-off dream, but a present possibility that we should press into existence with the...
Stories

The Five Valued Experiences

Tim Vogt -
For years, Tim Vogt and the crew Starfire Council of Greater Cincinnati have been working hard at turning their once-traditional disabilities service agency inside out. Tim explains the journey of thinking that has led them from helping people in...
Friends & Neighbors

We Hold Medicine for Each Other – A Conversation about Race

Quanita Roberson -
What does it mean to heal racial wounds? This complex topic continues to bewilder us as a collective and individually. As we search for tools and tactics for solving the ongoing challenges surrounding race and its history, are we...
Toolkits

Seeds of Land Return

Janelle Orsi -
How is our relationship with the land tied to our relationships with one another, and the possibility for cultivating strong and nurturing communities? This Land Return toolkit, developed by the Sustainable Economies Law Center, offers a unique perspective on...
Latest Thinking

Kwanzaa’s Seven Principles and the Community

Kristen Jeffers -
Millions of people are celebrating Kwanzaa this week. Founded by Maulana Karenga in 1966, the holiday started out as a cultural celebration for African-Americans and a replacement for what were thought to be non-African affirming holidays such as Christmas....
Latest Thinking

Helping the Rich Let Go

Chuck Collins -
  This selection from the Common Good Collective Reader invites an alternative way of viewing wealth: Over the next 20 years, between $35 trillion and &70 trillion will change hands from baby boomers to millennials globally. This will be the largest intergenerational...
Latest Thinking

Helen Lewis and Community Building in Appalachia

Amelia Kirby -
In this week's article, Amelia Kirby treats us to a glimpse into a robust lifetime blending community building and activism from a personal friend of the great organizer, Helen Lewis.   Helen Lewis has many honorifics, including Doctors of Divinity and...
Latest Thinking

An Untold Story: Cooperative Economics and Civil Rights

Jessica Gordon Nembhard -
"In your book, every famous name in Black America speaks out about co-ops. Why isn't this history better known?" asks Laura Flanders in her 2014 interview with researcher and author Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard. "Well that was my question, right?...
Podcasts

Do You Want to Experience True Liberation?

Maegan Scott -
In this week’s feature, the Meagan Scott and Courtney Ng speak on the Common Good podcast about facilitating necessary conditions for liberation, community, and magic, and how to connect with the desires of others in the creation of containers...
Stories

Oakland’s Understory Restaurant Prioritizes People and Community

April Doner -
For decades, neighbors, social scientists and city planners have recognized the critical role of "bumping places" - spots where meeting new and old friends is made natural and easy - for a healthy and vibrant communities. Bumping places are typically...
Friends & Neighbors

A Radically Different Take on Responsibility

Ari Weinzweig -
In this week's feature, co-founder of Zingerman’s Delicatessen, anarchist philosopher and food writer Ari Weinzweig questions our habit of projecting responsibility outward for our lives, communities and society.   A Radically Different Take on Responsibility A small shift in beliefs that can...
Recommended Reading

A Beautiful Resistance

Jeneé Osterheldt -
  This column is a part of A BEAUTIFUL RESISTANCE: Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.   Cole Arthur Riley created a literary communion in Black Liturgies. On Instagram, she’s made a space to lift her innermost thoughts...
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