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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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Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Nancy Sleeth -
For five years, my family lived in Wilmore, Kentucky, home of Asbury University and Asbury Seminary. Living two blocks from the center of town, I could walk everywhere — to work, the post office, the gym, the hair cutter,...
Friends & Neighbors

“The Well” ~ A Symbol of Healthy Community

Jeffrey Bordelon -
The I Ching is an ancient Chinese book of 64 oracular readings that reflect enduring wisdom that predates and includes Confucianism and Taoism. The readings consist of archetypal circumstances with guidance on how the individual may act in harmony...
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Modern Mentoring

John McKnight -
For decades, mentoring has been a respected and valued approach to assisting youth — usually those thought to be problematic. The typical nature of the activity is a relationship between a volunteer adult and a young person, most frequently a...
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The Neighbor Project

Raechel Dawson -
Very rarely do people open a book, become inspired and put a plan into action, but this is exactly what one Kirkland man did after reading “The Abundant Community” by John McKnight and Peter Block. Rodney Rutherford said the message...
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Meet Mary Nelson

Mary Nelson -
Mary Nelson is on the faculty of the Northwestern University’s Asset Based Community Development Institute (ABCD) and consults, speaks and does workshops in the U.S. and internationally (South Africa, Australia, East Timor, Germany, Mexico). She is currently serving as interim Executive...
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Growing Global Divisiveness Gets Disrupted

Michelle Strutzenberger -
Ian Edwards is nervous about the world he’s leaving his 14-year-old son, particularly the divisiveness he sees happening at an increasingly disturbing rate with all kinds of people. “It seems much greater than when I was younger,” the Boulder, Colorado...
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