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The Pain of Every Leader with Dan Joyner

Dan Joyner -
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 Joey Taylor speaks with Dan Joyner about participatory leadership, pain, fear and hospitality. Dan Joyner is...
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What is ‘Communal Living’ and is it Right for Me?

Gillian Morris -
While the US and many other countries experiencing impossibly rising house costs, loneliness has also been recently declared a public health crisis. Many of us are also seeking more sustainable ways to live to better support the health of...
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Unlocking Community Ownership in Ft. Wayne, IN

Great Lakes Urban -
When neighbors are at the center of generating ideas and creating their visions, local resources, gifts and talents can be tapped and built upon rather than extracted or ignored. This story from the city of Ft. Wayne, IN illustrates...
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Kinship over Transaction: How Bolivians Meet Community Needs

Mwende Hinojosa -
This article from Nonprofit Quarterly offers us a glimpse into time-tested traditions we can learn from the Bolivian people for practicing interdependence, mutuality, and self-governance to meet community needs.   Here in the Cochabamba Valley, days after Día de los Muertos (Day of...
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How a Neighborhood Co-op Started by Teens Helped Communities Adopt Solar Power

April Short -
As more and more communities and individuals become aware of the need to shift our energy sources to lessen the impacts of climate change, neighbor-driven action is key -- as is the energy, commitment and creativity of young people....
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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...
Stories

The Story of the Clouds and the Forests

Ben Roberts -
There’s a story one often hears in conversations about systemic transformation that goes like this… We are headed in the wrong direction and there’s very little time to reverse course.  Because of the scale and speed of the change that...
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Drawing from Indigenous Wisdom: Centering Life in Society & Economy

Freida Jacques -
Building a "next system" to supplant the current systemic drivers of our economic and political crises should include the wisdom of Indigenous cultures rooted in non-capitalist social and economic forms that center life and nature. This panel discussion hosted...
Friends & Neighbors

When It Comes to Cultivating Connectedness and Social Innovation, Aim For Discoverables, Not Deliverables

DeAmon Harges -
John McKnight said, “A competent community creates space for what is unknowable about life.” Too often, however, philanthropists and funding opportunities emphasize a desire for outcomes that produce neat, tidy, and predictable deliverables but waste opportunities to learn about...
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...
Stories

Four Winning Models for Building Community Wealth

Deb Nelson -
In this article, originally published on Next City, we are taken on a tour of the work of four "financial activists" opening up community-controlled pathways for shared wealth and local thriving.   If we’re ever going to have a just economy,...
Stories

Cooperative Ways to Weather the Silver Tsunami

Jaisal Noor -
As baby boomer business owners retire, their employees are taking ownership of their own futures.   Sierra Allen, 21-year-old barista, had just ended their shift at Baltimore’s Common Ground Cafe on July 2, 2023, when a co-worker texted them the shocking...
Stories

Stories from the Garden: Growing Power, Connection in Indianapolis

Kheprw Institute -
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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Dancing with Shiva

Harrison Owen -
Most of us have been raised in a world and within organizations that follow a "top down" culture. This can stifle creativity, individual agency, and collective intelligence and cohesion. What if we used structures for gathering that release us...
Stories

100MLives: Trusting Communities to Author their Solutions

Somava Sava -
From its start in 2014 to its completion in 2020, the 100 Million Healthier Lives (100MLives) global movement fundamentally transformed the way the world thinks and acts about health, well-being, and equity. Grounded in trust, and interconnected in partnership...
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“Nuestra Casa” – from Connection to Community Center

Great Lakes Urban -
Sometimes, building community can be as straightforward as bringing neighbors together to define a dream they hold in common. Check out this story created by Great Lakes Urban in partnership with UnoDuece Media about how in the Westcore neighborhood in...
Stories

Disaster collectivism: How Communities Rise Together to Respond to Crises

Robert Raymond -
When Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, 2017, Judith Rodriguez was asleep in her home. Or rather, she was trying to sleep, but the sounds of the deadly storm blowing over the island woke her up. “That...
Stories

Find Your People

Saphia Suarez -
While the ideas and ideals around "community" and living IN community are appealing, are we really ready for it? What fears and hesitations do we hold? What about introverts - does living in community work only for extroverts who...
Stories

From Bayanihan to Talkoot: Communal Work Practices from Around the World

Jeffrey Andreoni -
For all of human history, societies have depended on communal work to sustain themselves into the (often unpredictable) future. However, at a certain point, that all changed. Market forces took over, and communal projects ceased to have the same...
Stories

Why Intergenerational Thinking Is Essential to Heal the Planet

Anne Pinto-Rodrigues -
In the state of Meghalaya in northeast India, ingenious elders from the Khasi community spent decades, even centuries, building living root bridges known locally as jingkieng jri. The bridges were shaped by pulling and intertwining the aerial roots of the rubber fig tree...
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