One way of thinking about how communities get built is by seeing that the principal resource people have for the task is their gifts, skills, talents, capacities. So when we ask, “How could this neighborhood be built?” the answer is not about bringing in institutions to label people with their deficiencies and provide programs that enable their dependency. Building strong neighborhoods becomes a matter of everybody contributing as many of their gifts as they can to each other and to the whole.
Related:
- A Guide to Mapping and Mobilizing the Associations in Local Neighborhoods (Turner/ McKnight/Kretzman)
- Opening the Neighborhood Treasure Chest (McKnight)
- The Good Life? It’s Close to Home (McKnight/Block)
- 5 Questions to Awaken Your Functional Family (McKnight/Block)
