We must move beyond talking about what ‘community’ means, to “doing” community together in meaningful ways....
Read MoreThere’s rubbish on the street, and some folks they’ve got no job And the ambulance came half an hour too late to save old Bob And...
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Today we would like to share the results of John McKnight and Cormac Russell's deliberation about what is distinctive about an Asset-Based Community Development...
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In 2014, the NHS Endowment Fund provided funding for an Asset Based Community Development project in Ayrshire exploring how peoples’ assets and skills can be...
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Mostly with good intentions, institutions develop processes that degrade the human capacity, inventiveness and autonomy of the person/persons they serve....
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Following on from last week’s blog (Sport as an asset for Community Building) about the community building potential of sports activities, this week we...
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Joel Zaslofsky engages Cormac Russell in a vibrant conversation exploring the ideas of ABCD, motivations and important aspects to understand....
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We’ve covered a lot of ground over the last two months in this series, entitled: The Eight Touchstones of Community Building. We’ve also shared many...
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Touchstone seven recognizes that civic actions can start with either an outside in (external orientation) or inside out (internal orientation)....
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Once a strong connection is built with the community, it’s time to look to the future and envision what it could look like in...
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This week we’ll be looking at touchstone five: building connections and social interactions....
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The transformative relational power that would be generated if we learnt how to build an association of associations in every neighbourhood, could be our...
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