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Growing Community I: What, Why & How?

Laura Fulton -
For anyone interested in gardens as a context for fostering learning and interaction, the next three posts are guaranteed to provide you with inspiration and practical resources.   What are community gardens and where can they exist? As new sprouts push...
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Library? Or Welcome Wagon, Day Care, Counseling and Job Center?

Abundant Community -
In Notus, Idaho, librarian Jo Ellen Ringer has created a community hub for the town’s citizens. Her answers to the Public Insight Network’s survey about the role of libraries in civic life show how deep-seated caring and a little...
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Slow Down and Stay Awhile – Roads and Community

Brenton Crozier -
Photo: Laura Tillman London Plane trees and sidewalks slow highway drivers down in Willow Creek, California. These and other changes signal to travelers that this is a place with residents on foot and stores open for business.     As a parent, streets are...
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Q & A

Abundant Community -
If it takes a village to raise a child, it would look like...   Anne M. Stadler, a co-founder of Third Place Commons in Lake Forest Park, WA and other Puget Sound area community groups, said: Something like what our neighborhood circle...
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Why You Should Bring Community to the Table

Paul Born -
Tamarack president and co-founder Paul Born discusses ways to get people with different backgrounds and roles to blur the lines that divide them in addressing complex challenges such as poverty, homelessness or crime reduction. Listen to the conversation with Hildy...
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Cup Mail

Ron Dwyer-Voss -
This summer I a spent a week observing life in and around The Falling Rock Cafe in Munising, Michigan.  No, I did not receive a MacArthur Grant or other fellowship for observing coffee shops, although if you know of...
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Welcome Vashon

Bruce Anderson -
Vashon Islander Claire Bronson of c2bdesign.com contributed the graphic of the "We All Belong" event "Welcome Vashon" is a creative hub for projects and activities that welcome, connect and strengthen belonging for everyone on Vashon Island, WA. In summer 2010 a...
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Blessings Revealed

Puanani Burgess -
A sought-after mediator, poet, community organizer, and Zen priest, Pua attributes her abilities as a cultural translator to a personal heritage as varied as her homeland, Hawai’i. She’s Japanese, Chinese, Native Hawai’ian, German, and French, and grew up poor...
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The Art of Neighboring … Continued

John McKnight -
Everyone opened up. I opened up. I opened up my home for the progressive dinner and for Easter too. I never thought to do that before. I kept to myself mostly, maybe saw the neighbors across the street. People...
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Together We Grow Healthy Food, Family and Friends

Abundant Community -
Reading about the Reevesland Learning Garden in Arlington, VA, inspired Dave Cooper to tell us about a farming project he help to start up in the central part of the state.  Just last week they planted 1,000 sweet potato slips...
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Guest Blog: Our Second Community Meeting

Jennifer Sommerness -
When Jennifer mentioned her goal of becoming a community connector in her review of The Abundant Community, we asked her to write a guest blog so others could share and learn from her experiences. Here is the latest installment in...
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The Last Shot in DC

Susan Doherty -
It is one thing to talk about Abundance, another to actually find it. Susan Doherty's story does that. It briefly chronicles the emergence of talent that in the normal course of events would remain essentially invisible and unrealized. Thanks to the Plexus...
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Growing Food, Knowledge and Community

John McKnight -
Joan Horwitt is at it again. The founder of LAWNS 2 LETTUCE 4 LUNCH®, an innovative Arlington, VA project designed to help Ashlawn Elementary School students learn about growing and eating healthy foods and to develop new relationships between...
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ABCD in Action

John McKnight -
ABCD in Action is a lively new site focused on ways to apply the principles and practices of Asset-Based Community Development and related strength-based and commonsense approaches. The site’s members now include more than 2,000 practitioners from more than 50 countries...
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Guest Blog: Becoming a Community Connector

Jennifer Sommerness -
When Jennifer mentioned her goal of becoming a community connector in her review of The Abundant Community, we asked her to write a guest blog so others could share and learn from her experiences. Here is her first post.   In...
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Leveraging Capacity for Change

John McKnight -
Staff of the New Economics Institute e-Newsletter, March 12, 2011 Together with others around the world, our thoughts are with those affected by yesterday's devastating earthquake and tsunami. The following eNewsletter was prepared in advance of that tragedy. The Laurel Hill Association...
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Deep Connections

Tim Vogt -
Bridget and I have gone from knowing about two of our neighbors in February 2010 to about 25 of our neighbors in February 2011.  Two of the new neighbors we met are R.L. and Martha, a couple in their...
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Uhuru Child and Fountain of Hope Youth Initiative Honored by Community Tool Box

Bill Berkowitz, Ph.D. -
Selected by an international panel of judges and then by public voting, the grand prize and second prize- winning projects honored by the Community Tool Box Out of the Box competition are both located in Kenya in communities ravaged by civil...
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Four Questions, Twenty-Five Neighbors, and a Community Garden

Margaret Rahn -
Tim and Bridget Vogt noticed that they received no welcome from the neighbors when they moved into their new home in Bellevue, Kentucky. No cookies, no “Hi, new neighbor, here’s how we compost …”  One day they found themselves...
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The Art of Neighboring

John McKnight -
In North Port, FL, a relatively new community, Don Vande Krol felt he needed to know his neighbors. He distributed an invitation to them to join him and his wife for a "getting to know one another" evening.  From...
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