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Peter Block and John McKnight with Wayne Hurlbert – Part One

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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...
Latest Thinking

John McKnight: Building Grass-Roots Movements

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Interview with Hildy Gottlieb of Making Change, podcast of The Chronicle of Philanthropy December 8, 2010 Podcast and full article here.
Latest Thinking

John McKnight and Peter Block: The Abundant Community

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

A River Runs through John

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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...
Recommended Reading

Recommended from the “Conversation with John and Peter: The Future of Families” September 6, 2011

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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...
Friends & Neighbors

The Pain of Every Leader with Dan Joyner

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The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging. For this week's episode Joey Taylor speaks with Dan Joyner about participatory leadership, pain, fear and hospitality. Dan Joyner is...
Friends & Neighbors

When It Comes to Cultivating Connectedness and Social Innovation, Aim For Discoverables, Not Deliverables

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John McKnight said, “A competent community creates space for what is unknowable about life.” Too often, however, philanthropists and funding opportunities emphasize a desire for outcomes that produce neat, tidy, and predictable deliverables but waste opportunities to learn about...
Stories

100MLives: Trusting Communities to Author their Solutions

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From its start in 2014 to its completion in 2020, the 100 Million Healthier Lives (100MLives) global movement fundamentally transformed the way the world thinks and acts about health, well-being, and equity. Grounded in trust, and interconnected in partnership...
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

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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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The Biggest Question You Can Ask in Life

A Buddhist teacher once nudged me along the path by rephrasing a question my mind kept posing to itself....
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