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John McKnight and Peter Block: The Abundant Community

John McKnight -
Interview with Wayne Hurlbert on Blog Talk Radio November 23, 2010 Listen to the podcast here.
Friends & Neighbors

A River Runs through John

Al Etmanski -
Cormac Russell Note: The following is a guest blog written by Al Etmanski (aletmanski.com) . Al is a community organizer, social entrepreneur and author. John McKnight is his friend. Al's new book is Impact: Six Patterns to Spread Your Social Innovation. There is a...
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Recommended from the “Conversation with John and Peter: The Future of Families” September 6, 2011

Abundant Community -
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...
Stories

Local Business by Benediction

Jonathan Massimi -
While the world has in some ways shifted from the constraints of early pandemic days, Jonathan Massimi's reflections from his parish stand out as enduring insights into the value local businesses play within our communities, beyond their purely economic...
John McKnight

Neighborhoods as Magical Places: The Connected Community Book Talk

John McKnight -
The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging. For this episode, John McKnight & Cormac Russell discuss their new book, The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth & Power...
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What Does Community Development for Liberation Look Like?

Steve Dubb -
This article, originally published in Nonprofit Quarterly, offers a peek into the tensions and hopes that leaders of national community development organizations grapple with daily, as well as the historical roots of thinking that have shaped their work.   Earlier this...
John McKnight

The Gifts of Strangers: Understanding the Benefits of Diversity

John McKnight -
One argument for diversity is that is ensures participation and creates the power of being heard. It is expressed by the popular maxim, “Nothing about us without us.” Implicit in this idea is that those outside must come inside...
Friends & Neighbors

Social Lessons from Transformation: Starfire Council

Tim Vogt -
Sometime in 2007 or 2008, Tim Vogt, who directed an award-winning agency serving people with disabilities, had his journey interrupted years ago by a visit from three people who were unknown to him who got up and spoke at...
Friends & Neighbors

Attributes, Roles and Culture within Neighborhoods

John McKnight -
In a recent podcast by The Neighboring Movement, hosts Adam Barlow-Thompson and Matt Johnson were joined by John McKnight to discuss the six (possibly even seven) attributes of a culture of contribution, how these characteristics in a community could...
Friends & Neighbors

COVID-19 Cannot Harm Your Gifts

Bruce Anderson -
Where do gifts come from? Whether you believe your gifts spring from your genetic makeup, a scientific phenomenon like a “big bang”, or as a gift from a spiritual source, what is undeniable is that you have come into...
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Improving Health Equity through Asset Based Community Development

In May of 2023, a workbook was released on Improving Health Equity through ABCD (Asset Based Community Development) written...
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