Using Authenticity To Facilitate Sustainable Community Development
May 3, 2019
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During my introduction, I iterated about four words and was interrupted by a long-standing city council woman and a native of the community, her...
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7. Bigger is better.
2010 study of 46,000 Americans in 26 cities showeda key determinant of local economic prosperity is connection....
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What is distinctive about an ABCD Process – Four Essential Elements.
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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Universal Unconditional Basic Empathy Part 2 of 2
Individually we can’t create society, as it is the sum of our interactions, intermeshed with knowledge and traditions from the past and concerns, hopes...
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Universal Unconditional Basic Empathy Part 1 of 2
The real proving ground is community responsiveness to it’s needs. This forms the test against which ability to meet necessities breeds creativity, inventiveness and...
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income (Part 2 of 2)
Honest questions alongside open dialogue about the way in which we think about salaried and non-salaried contributions will open up space for more fruitful...
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Universal Unconditional Basic Income (Part 1 of 2)
When we start the conversation around contribution, and intentionally shift away from market language - including the word ‘value’ which is also an economic...
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Touchstone Seven: Implementation
Touchstone seven recognizes that civic actions can start with either an outside in (external orientation) or inside out (internal orientation)....
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Are Social Housing Organisations Wholesalers or Retailers?
Increasingly I hear Social Housing Organisations refer to the people they serve as customers. The implication is that their customers are ‘consuming their products’...
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Recently 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...
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