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Life after FIX

Ann Livingston -
Co-founder of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, Ann Livingston was instrumental in the opening of Insite, Vancouver's supervised injection site and the only one of its kind in North America. Her work was featured in the documentary film...
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Parish Portrait: Mt Scott-Arleta, Portland, OR with B.D. Dormaier

Parish Collective -
How a few plants, a mural, and less pavement could bring more to a neighborhood than one big ministry. Parish Portrait: Mt Scott-Arleta, Portland, OR with B.D. Dormaier from Parish Collective on Vimeo. Home page image: Ron Dunnigton
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I Saw the Revolution in So Many of the Small Places We Call Home

Sarah van Gelder -
The following is an excerpt from The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000 Mile Journey Through a New America. The real change we need to stop the social and ecological unraveling can be found in the neighborhoods and cities,...
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The Revolution Where You Live

Sarah van Gelder -
YES! Magazine co-founder and editor at large Sarah van Gelder talks about her 12,000-mile journey to find out what people are doing in their communities about poverty, inequality, the climate crisis, and racism.   Related:   I Saw the Revolution in So...
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Abundant Communities Initiative Updates ABCD Principles for Municipalities

Jennifer Neutel -
The Abundant Community Initiative is catching on, with municipalities across North America expressing interest in connecting neighbours. Howard Lawrence, co-founder of the Asset-Based Neighbourhood Organizing Association, says many cities have a long-standing relationship with Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) and the Abundant Community Initiative is a...
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A Happy Place to Shop

Leslie Stephen -
Sixteen years ago the only grocery store in Chester, PA closed. That was the bad news. The great news is that in 2013 the nation’s first nonprofit grocery store opened there: Fare & Square. Fare & Square is unique, and...
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Fare & Square – Michael, Shopper

Philabundance -
Born and raised in Chester, PA, Michael Cooper shops at Fare & Square, Philabundance's non-profit grocery store. Here he shares why he loves the store and how it helps make the most impact, not profit, in the community.   Related:   A...
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Chester’s Nonprofit Food Market Tries to Square Mission with Bottom Line

Laura Benshoff -
WHYY education reporter Laura Benshoff profiles what Fare & Square, the first nonprofit grocery store in the nation, is doing to turn a former food desert into an oasis of good food and community abundance. Includes slide show with photos...
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Chester Supermarket ‘Fare & Square’ Changing Lives in Community

Matt DeLucia -
Philadelphia's NBC10 reporter Matt DeLucia shows how Fare & Square became the first supermarket in the city in more than 15 years and changed lives in the community. Watch here.   Related: A Happy Place to Shop (Stephen) Chester’s Nonprofit Food Market Tries...
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Strangers Become Family at This Multigenerational Housing Project

Kim Eckert -
Cheryl Crowell and her four boys are known around Bridge Meadows as the "First Family" because they were the first to move in when the community opened in 2011. Left to right: Noah, Cheryl, Joaquin, Tomas, and Eli Crowell....
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Nutrition and Nurture Designed for Body and Spirit

Prucia Buscell -
The Reverend Angel Garcia Rodriguez is a Spanish priest who is also an innovator and entrepreneur whose nonprofit enterprises are designed to nourish the body and spirit of those in need. He has opened four restaurants called Robin Hood in...
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What is Possible in Re-humanizing the West?

Michelle Strutzenberger -
Tucked away in a corner of the Internet is a reading room which people who are seeking ideas that invert their thinking will want to visit. Restore Commons, an initiative of Peter Block and friends, has been quietly collecting the...
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How a Health Clinic Made a Local Grocery Store Part of Its Prescription

Bob van Meter -
Sue Joss and Jason Barbosa might seem to be unlikely economic development partners. She is the veteran CEO of a major nonprofit health care provider in Brockton, Massachusetts, just south of Boston. He is the operations manager of a...
Conversations

Discovering Assets of a Small Town

John McKnight -
Conversation with Priscilla Corcoran Mooney Priscilla is the former mayor of Branch, Newfoundland, a small town of 250 citizens on the Atlantic coast. There she led residents to think about their assets and how to make their community stronger. Listen or...
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The Little Free Pantry

Cat Johnson -
Earlier this month, Shareable posted a short article about the Little Free Pantry in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Created by Jessica McClard, the Pantry is an easy way for people to share surplus food and household goods, and access items they may need. The response to the post...
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Top 21 Reasons to Live in Branch

Abundant Community -
Priscilla Corcoran Mooney was just 30 years old when she became her town’s mayor. A community of approximately 250 people on the Cape Shore of Newfoundland, Canada, the Town of Branch knows how to focus on their assets and...
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Men, Better Neighbours Than Friends?

Sarah Arthurs -
Howard Lawrence, the go-to-and-get-it-done guy when it comes to fixing neighbourhoods, reflects on his own way of connecting. When he is at home feeling isolated, he heads outside to see who is working on projects — fixing or building — and...
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The Cooperative Way to a Stronger Economy

Sarah van Gelder -
Our little group of a dozen families was running out of time. After meeting every weekend for three years to plan our hoped-for cohousing community, and after investing much of our savings to acquire a few acres of land,...
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Apple Street Market

Abundant Community -
A documentary video from the Cincinnati Union Co-operative Initiative shows how the city's Northside neighborhood is using community ownership to solve the problem of urban supermarket shortage.   Image courtesy the Cincinnati Union Co-operative Initiative
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Stone Soup Moments

Sarah Arthurs -
What are Stone Soup Moments and how do you know that one has occurred? The soup created by Bev Webber, a Red Seal trained chef, and served at the Unitarian Church  community roundtable was corn chowder. But it was actually...
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