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Introduction to Nextdoor

Nextdoor -
Video introduction to Nextdoor, the free and private social network currently being used in more than 30,000 neighborhoods nationwide to build stronger and safer communities. In addition to sharing, neighbors use Nextdoor to discuss crime and safety updates, reunite lost...
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Wednesday at Broadway: Tacos, Art, Abundance

April Doner -
Being a freelance has unusual perks — like being able to choose your office space for the day on a whim. Lately, I’ve been trying to plant myself in “third places” — spots that lend themselves to interaction among community...
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Invest in the Sock Exchange … and Other Ways to Join the Sharing Revolution

Jeremy Adam Smith -
PEEK INSIDE THE RESILIENT COMMUNITIES ISSUE OF YES! MAGAZINE   Sharing stuff and services saves money, but the benefits go far beyond the financial. When our goal is to own stuff, to amass square footage and cars and boats and electronic devices, our...
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Collaborative Health Care

Paul Uhlig, MD -
Step into a hospital room with Dr. Paul Uhlig and Ellen Raboin and see something new occur — a social invention in health care that is healing for all the participants.   We are in a patient care room. Look around: This...
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Taking the Future into Their Own Hands

Allison Pinto -
Just had a knock at the door — it was Mia. She stopped by to tell me about the brilliant plan that she and fellow neighborkid Talia have hatched. (Mia is incredibly modest — “brilliant” is my word for the plan.) Today...
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The Garden That Gives Together

Zoe S. Erler -
“You get food, you get exercise, you get vitamin D … it’s a sense of freedom,” says New York native Ila Falvey in a recent article on community gardening from The Philanthropic Enterprise’s Trends in Innovation series. Falvey was recently elected...
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Creating Welcoming Communities for Our Young People

Fred Neurohr -
A neighborhood on the West Side of Cincinnati recently suffered an attack of an African immigrant by 14 and 15 year-olds.  One of these teens allegedly had a gun and threatened to kill the victim.  Cincinnati Police’s District 3...
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The Economy of Smallness

Abby Quillan -
A few years after Judy Wicks opened the White Dog Cafe in West Philadelphia, she hung a sign in her bedroom closet as a daily reminder of what her business could be if she gave it ­creativity and care....
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Seeing Problems As a Gift

Gerard Ee -
While we do not wish problems on anyone, we do see problems as a gift that brings people together even though people may be on opposing sides when they gather. Our role is to help them focus on the...
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Gluing a Place Together, One Neighbour at a Time

Howard Lawrence -
The Highlands neighbourhood lies in northeast Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, overlooking the North Saskatchewan River valley. It’s a mature neighbourhood of Foursquare and various Arts and Crafts style homes, large lots, big trees and beautiful river views, all close by central Edmonton. Annexed by Edmonton in 1912,...
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What Would Make Cincinnati a Great City?

Gary Robbins -
What would make Cincinnati a great city? To explore that question, more than 100 folks from around town gathered with Peter and John to learn about “The Abundant Community.” There is growing buzz around town about civic engagement and how we...
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Guiding Participation and Inclusion

Cormac Russell -
We welcome yesterday’s launch of NHS England’s Guidance for Participation and Inclusion which begins to lay a foundation for transformational change. The central challenge for participation and inclusion more generally is how can we promote citizen-led innovation that stays local, but over...
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Making a Difference in Madisonville Kitchens

Steve Rock -
Most Thursday evenings I spend in the garden at Ward and Chandler.* Usually I am by myself, puttering. Last night was different. If you had come by the garden yesterday you would have seen neighbors “shopping” among the rows. In...
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Neighborhood Scavenger Hunts –– and More –– at the Sarasota Community Studio

Leslie Stephen -
"We aim to be the first neighborhood where every child and the neighborhood are thriving because, together as neighbors, we are following the lead of NEIGHBORKIDS." That’s the thinking behind the Sarasota Community Studio, opened in the Florida city’s Central-Cocoanut neighborhood...
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Central-Cocoanut Neighborhood Scavenger Hunt: Jane’s Walk 2013

Tim Dutton -
Watch neighborkids lead an exploration of the Sarasota (FL) Central-Cocoanut neighborhood on this year’s Jane’s Walk, a walking tour conducted around the world the first weekend in May to honor community-building visionary Jane Jacobs by getting people out exploring...
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Resident-Centered Community Building: What Makes It Different?

The Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation -
When residents are genuinely at the center of community building, a different process unfolds. Relationships become the centerpiece of the work. This is because for residents community building is personal — it’s about their children, their families, their homes, their neighbors and their streets. It...
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Green Housing: In Buffalo, It’s Not Just for Rich People Anymore

Mark Andrew Boyer -
  Massachusetts Avenue Park was not a place you'd want to take your kids. Before, the small neighborhood park in the heart of Buffalo's West Side was little more than vacant land with a small playground and a crumbling basketball...
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Why Unions Are Going Into the Co-op Business

Amy Dean -
“Too often we have seen Wall Street hollow out companies by draining their cash and assets and hollow out communities by shedding jobs and shuttering plants,” said United Steelworkers (USW) President Leo Gerard in 2009. “We need a new...
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Downtown Vancouver to Get “Knee to Knee”

Michelle Strutzenberger -
Alisdair Smith’s experience at an event co-led by thought leaders Peter Block and John McKnight in Cincinnati last year hit him at the cellular level, he says. The Vancouver resident is now planning a similar gathering for two downtown neighbourhoods in his...
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How to Use Local Assets to Make Your Community Effective

Peter Block -
Download or listen to John and Peter's March 5 conversation with Mary Nelson on asset-based approaches to building community generally and what makes them effective. Mary is the founder and longtime Director of Bethel New Life, one of the nation's best neighborhood development...
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