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The Belonging Revolution: Giving Life to a New Community Narrative

Lisa Bailey -
The road to revolution begins with a walk through the neighbourhood. That’s what’s sparking for Mike Butler and Dan Benavidez as what they call “the Belonging Revolution” unfolds in their community of Longmont, Colorado. Since last July, Mike and Dan have...
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Grace Hearth: A Community Movement Through Soul-warming Food

Rishi O -
Keri Keifer and Jocelyn Jackson found cooking as a way to create change by engaging their local community while nourishing their creative souls at the same time. Their distinguished catering company in Oakland, California, sources from local farmers and...
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The Time Banking Way of Giving and Receiving Gifts

Robert Thompson and Mike Neiss -
Edgar Cahn, the founder of Time Banks, joins Robert Thompson and co-host Mike Neiss in their latest installment of their Leadership and the Common Good series on blogtalkradio. What exactly is Time Banking? Why has Cahn dedicated much of his life to this effort? Their exploration...
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Pay-What-You-Can Café Gets National Attention

Lynne Wise -
More than a little buzz was created last fall when a story on an unusual restaurant in Norwood aired on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday. In fact, the local restaurant featured in the report is so unusual...
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Exactly What Are You Committing To?

Helms Jarrell -
I first started to write, "I live in a neighborhood that is cut off from a lot of the vibrant life of the city."  But, that's not true. What's true is that I live in a neighborhood that is...
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Beyond the CSA: Four Ways Communities Support Everything from Books to Beer

Dana Drugmand -
Since the first community supported agriculture program was established in western Massachusetts in the 1980s, the concept of buying food directly from local farms has taken off. There are now thousands of CSAs across the country. It’s a simple enough...
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What’s Possible When Two Women Step Up to Connect Their Neighbourhood?

Michelle Strutzenberger -
Amber Cannon feels most energized when she looks back over the last few months that she’s been active in her community and realizes the mental health issues she’s struggled with in the past have lessened considerably. “Since I’ve been involved...
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Casapluma

Ben Wolfe -
“I’m incredibly energized by the power of simple things,” Evangeline Hammond says. “By little things having the power to change people’s lives, and bring beauty to neighbourhoods. Soccer programs. Potlucks. Just sharing food.” She’s not talking hypothetically. She’s talking about a...
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Valley County: A Great Place to Grow

Nebraska Community Foundation -
The Nebraska Community Foundation provides communities with assistance and technical expertise to maximize the effectiveness of community philanthropy and educates donors and community leaders on the impact of grant making on community economic development goals. It currently works with...
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Byron: Small Town, Big Dreams

Nebraska Community Foundation -
The Byron Community Foundation Fund was established in July 2011.  During its first year the Fund received eighteen gifts of grain worth more than $100,000.  With additional cash gifts and pledges, the Fund raised over $450,000 in less than...
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Big Dreams, Big Progress

Leslie Stephen -
In Nebraska, a group of visionary volunteers got together to do something about supporting community development in the state’s small towns. Their goal was to raise $25 million in ten years. That was in 1993. Today, the Nebraska Community Foundation...
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Laser Eagles

Judith Snow -
International pioneer in the disability movement Judith Snow describes how the Laser Eagles Art Guild enables people labeled disabled to express themselves through art.
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7 Practical Ideas for Compassionate Communities, From Free College to Debt Relief

Shannan Stoll -
1. 100,000 homes so far Teams of volunteers across the country hit the streets early in the morning to put a name and a face to the long-term homeless in their communities. The volunteers started canvassing at 4 a.m., combing...
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Every Block a Village

Julie Jung -
When St. Anne's Hospital closed in 1988, Jacqueline Reed was busy as a third-year extended evening program student at , a fellow at the Chicago Community trust and a mother raising four children with her husband, Ronald. But Reed...
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Never Underestimate the Power of a Little Lettuce

Joan Horwitt -
We did a piece some time ago about Joan Horwitt and her idea to teach school kids how to grow lettuce. Then she gave them all packs of seeds to take home and teach their parents how to do...
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Bikers against Child Abuse

Leslie Stephen -
Cormac Russell's recent post, Community Building and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, reminded John of what Alexis de Tocqueville called the productive and almost unimaginable power of American associations. "Our community abundance is revealed," John said, "when we see how...
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The Invitation Conversation and the Power of “A Small Group” of Committed People

Dan Joyner -
More than two years ago, Gary Robbins, Meagan Lauer and I got together after an ASG  monthly gathering and decided to work on a few common interests together. One item was to develop a workshop where the three of...
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Hidden Garden Steps: A Community Continuing to Evolve

Paul Signorelli -
The Hidden Garden Steps ceramic-tile mosaic created and completed by project artists Aileen Barr and Colette Crutcher is in place here in San Francisco, and an ever-expanding community has quickly claimed the site as its own — just as organizing committee members hoped it would. New resources connecting...
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How to Create Possibility for Youth on the Margins

Daniel Grego -
Peter returns to Robert Thompson and Mike Neiss's radio show to talk with Dan Grego, the Executive Director of Milwaukee’s TransCenter for Youth. Peter's introduction summarizes the state of school reform efforts today. The discussion shows how Dan's work is a...
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Community Conversations: A Big Impact in a Small Village

Rachel Brnjas -
What do people across North America today believe the job of community is? Where do they experiencing belonging and caring? What prevents them from experiencing deep and meaningful connections with others? Beyond curiosity, these questions reveal a desire to...
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