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Inspirations for 2012 Community

Jan Bennett -
Every new year ushers in with it new goals and resolutions made with the intent of betterment for self and community. For those who need a bit of encouragement for 2012 goal setting, State of the Re:Union passes along...
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The First Wednesday Conversation in Olympia, WA

Steve Byers -
Since July 2007 Steve Byers has hosted a monthly conversation at a fair trade café in downtown Olympia, Washington. “I convened this gathering so that colleagues and friends would have a regular opportunity to engage in meaningful conversation around...
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Welcoming Schools: ABCD in Action

Jim Welling -
When Ron Dwyer-Voss asked the question "What are the best or most interesting ways you have seen schools become welcoming places that connect with their surrounding communities?" he got an interessting discussion going on ABCD in Action. Here's one reply...
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Sweet Potatoes Newest Star of Lawns 2 Lettuce 4 Lunch

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Remember Lawns 2 Lettuce 4 Lunch, the Arlington, VA-area initiative founded by Joan Horwitt to promote home-grown healthy foods? It was sweet potatoes harvested by Ashlawn students that starred in Ashlawn Elementary School’s school lunch event in early November. The tubers...
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Elementz: A Place for Hip Hop and Respect

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Cincinnati teens learn creativity at Elementz by telling their stories through the music, poetry/rap, dance and graffiti/visual arts of hip hop culture. Their Fall 2011 digital newsletter tells the stories of the Elementz Fundraiser at Cincinnati’s Freedom Center, Elementz at...
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Bring & Fix

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Imagine a “gifts fair” where neighbors share their knowledge and skills with their neighbors. Need a garment hemmed? Want some help preparing a presentation? Looking for gardening advice? Getting people together to work on anything from fixing a flat bicycle...
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Small Steps to Creating Community

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Check out Good Tree Village Cohousing's blog at http://goodtreevillage.org/2011/11/20/small-steps-to-creating-community/. A recent post features a 100 neighbors website and a story on neighbors who connected their yards to create an urban oasis as two small and effective ways of building community. Photo: Good Tree...
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Little Free Library

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A cool and powerful idea is spreading from its small beginning in Hudson WI to neighborhoods from Brooklyn to Sacramento, Portland to New Orleans. It’s called Little Free Library, and there’s even a Little Free Library in Hamburg, Germany...
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Leading from the Back and Front…Can It Be Done?

April Doner -
Since October, I've been working to organize a grassroots creative-economy movement in my town, yet finding myself necessary in the "front" as one of the founders of an Arts Collective (Uprise Art Collective). In a nutshell, I'm struggling with the...
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Actions Speak Louder…

Joe Erpenbeck -
Westwood Works is more of an evolving discussion rather than a movement.  Perhaps it is better understood as a way of looking at things as opposed to a “civic group.” It started as a gathering of citizens in the Westwood...
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How Do You Change the World?

Susan Fleetwood -
The alumni of the Pepperdine University Master of Science in Organization Development wanted to have a conference where members of the alumni community could gather, learn and share, be real and be accepted. To help them stay focused on...
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The San Diego Social Innovation Trust

Meredith McNair -
One of the greatest hindrances to solving a community's social issues is a disconnect between its public, private and philanthropic sectors.  Last April, San Diego consulting firm Harder+Company Community Research and a small group of community leaders initiated a...
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Pie Day at the Hardware Store

Melissa Lee -
Here’s something you don’t usually hear when entering a hardware store: “We’ve got some pie over there, help yourself.” That’s exacy what I heard when I stepped into the Waitsburg Hardware & Mercantile in Waitsburg, WA.  And there was pie...
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PlacerSustain: One Community’s Exploration of the Possibility of a Sustainable Future

Jeffrey Bordelon -
We are in the midst of a global transformative change in what it means to be a "Community," and in particular, a Sustainable Community. At the heart of this change is the growing recognition that personal, social, and cultural...
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Third Place Commons: The Heart of Community

Anne Stadler -
I live in Lake Forest Park—a town of about 12,000 people on the very northern edge of Seattle, Washington. That we are a town at all is an accident.  Lake Forest Park began as a real estate development located...
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The Neighborhood Café and Other Hospitable Places

Joe Erpenbeck -
 “Friendship is dependent on combining enough gifts among a group of people that the properties of association and hospitality can be manifested.” — The Abundant Community Have you ever been to a place where it just feels wonderfully good to spend...
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Wiser Together: Partnering Across Generations

Juanita Brown -
Tucked away in the small Appalachian community of Burnsville, North Carolina, is a family farm and a place of meeting that has recently become the new home base for Juanita Brown and David Isaacs, co-founders of the World Café....
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Milwaukee: Transformation in Process

Meredith McNair -
Marquette University has launched a series of workshops aimed at uniting Milwaukee residents and institutions in guided conversations that foster community collaboration and progress. Called the Community Transformation Project, the program began nine years ago with a study group that...
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The Golden Girls 2.0

Jan Bennett -
In many cultures, the home is a place where family gathers. It is common practice to have multi-generations living under one roof, unlike the typical American makeup of nuclear family unit. Many members of the extended family household will...
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What Is Enough?

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To set the stage for his 2012 budget message, Alachua County, FL Manager Randall Reid quotes Lao Tzu: “Great trouble comes from not knowing what is enough . . .” The challenge for citizens today, he says, is to decide...
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