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A community can never own that which was created for them, in the same way that they own that which they create for themselves....
Read MoreA community can never own that which was created for them, in the same way that they own that which they create for themselves....
Read MoreLast week I received a great email from someone whom I find to be a terrifically deep thinker. They ask the most brilliant questions,...
Read MoreThere is a woman who lives in a neighbourhood in Chicago, who just loves lettuce. She also loves children. Each year she shows the...
Read MoreThe following blog has been written by Tom Dewar, Senior Associate at Nurture Development. Several weeks ago I had the great pleasure of being in the...
Read MoreThere are those that say there are 7 basic plots or seven basic stories, apparently they are Orpheus, Achilles, Cinderella, Tristan and Isolde, Circe,...
Read MoreThe following is a guest blog written by Jon Dawes. Jon is a graduate student in Community Development at Glasgow University and a participant in...
Read MoreAbout this time last year I was in Evanston with John McKnight. One of the things we did while I was there was play...
Read MoreBy Cormac Russell, John McKnight and Peter Block What does a one-room schoolhouse in Michigan have to do with Greece, Europe, Democracy and the now...
Read More[caption id="attachment_742" align="alignright" width="143"] Con Carey[/caption] On Saturday April 1st 1978 in the Irish village of Brosna, Co. Kerry, a burial of a local man...
Read More[caption id="attachment_728" align="alignright" width="260"] Image taken from http://www.lostcrafts.com/Blacksmith-61.html[/caption] Benjamin Franklin in The Way to Wealth (1758) wrote: For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for...
Read MoreRecently someone asked me this question: "how can you use Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) in communities to address a culture of worklessness?" Questions like this slip...
Read MoreThis week's post is a video blog. It's a recording of my presentation at the One Community Conference, convened by Aberdeen Council, (Self Directed...
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