Why Asset-Based Community Development is not a Model
August 2, 2016
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Asset-Based Community Development is not a model, it is a description of how people join together - at hyper local level - to use...
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I came to Northwestern University in 1969 after 16 years of neighborhood organizing and civil rights activism. My home base was the Center For...
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Once we were free, feral and tribal. We traded among our tribes using gift exchange and bartered with enemies and strangers. Then Pharaohs and their...
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'We used to dream big, now we have a district commissioner who does that for us.' Last week I finished with the question: What happens...
Read MoreCommunities are the atomic elements of molecular democracy: Part 1
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Read MoreToo small to fail: ABCD & Schumacher
[caption id="attachment_1116" align="alignleft" width="204"] E.F. Schumacher. Image taken from http://bit.ly/1FvuqQp[/caption] Imagine living in a world where the default position was ‘that’s too small to fail!’...
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