Recommended Reading

We asked: What are you reading now that relates to your community work? What writings would you recommend to others involved in efforts like your own? What resources (books, articles, websites, people) have influenced your thinking and work? Here's what...

Follow-up recommendations from Ross Chapin’s June 5 conversation with John and Peter “Making Space for Community.” Recommendations from John, Peter and Ross http://rosschapin.com http://www.pocket-neighborhoods.net/ Great tools at pocket-neighborhoods.net/resources www.sacredplaces.org www.nextdoor.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvkF2r1V_mo Ross Chapin video interview by Craig Weiner. Robert J. Sampson. Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood...

Links/Resources Recommended These links are roughly in the order of subjects mentioned in John and Peter's August 28 conversation with Al Etmanski. www.projectfriendship.com for information on the Project Friendship Society in Canada that John mentioned in his introduction. The organization connects people isolated...

Reading and Websites Recommended Follow-up recommendations from Tom Dewar's April 16 conversation with Peter "Measuring and Evaluating Community Initiatives." Grassroots Grantmakers http://www.grassrootsgrantmakers.org/category/small-grants/publications/ See especially a “short course on grassroots grantmaking.” Center for Neighborhood Technology http://www.cnt.org Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/community-change/publications-1 You can order a copy of...

Books Edgar Cahn No More Throw-Away People: The Co-Production Imperative (2d ed) Washington, DC: Essential Books, 2004 Alfie Kohn No Contest: The Case Against Competition (2d rev ed) Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992   Going Further Fallibility: The Value of Imperfection (John McKnight/Peter Block) The Gift of Fallibility - Conversing with...

Links Alternative currency Definition: Alternative currency Video: Alternative Currencies: A True Story Groups and websites (asset-based community development, transition initiatives, etc.) www.ABCDinAction.ning.com www.abcdinstitute.org http://www.communitysolution.org/ http://www.powerofcommunity.org/ http://transitionus.org/ http://www.transitionnetwork.org/ YES! Magazine Books Mark Anielski The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2007 Rob Hopkins The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience White River...

John McKnight Exemplary Materials for Designing a Community Building Initiative in a Neighborhood      (Evanston, IL: Asset Based Community Development Institute, 2011) Materials developed cooperatively by The Woodlawn Organization, a Chicago neighborhood organization, and the Asset Based Community Development Institute of Northwestern...

Recommendations from the founder of The Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont's free-market public policy research and education organization; widely published commentator on Vermont issues;  co-author of The Vermont Papers and editor of the Institute’s monthly Ethan Allen Letter. Herbert Agar  Land of...

Excerpts from Peter and John's comments on The Abundant Community – Part Two This is the second part of the transcribed excerpts from Peter and John’s interview with Wayne Hurlbert of Blog Business World. In Part One, they explored the...

Excerpts from Peter and John's comments on The Abundant Community – Part One This is the first set of transcribed excerpts from Peter and John’s interview with Wayne Hurlbert of Blog Business World. Here, they explore the background and conceptual...