Nurturing the Carrying Capacity of Communities
October 6, 2017
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In structural engineering the concept of “carrying or bearing capacity” of soil refers to “a given mass of soil’s resilience and receptivity to infrastructure...
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A quick history of the evolution of civic power
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 Will Prevail
We Will Prevail When potholes come and they're ignored By salaried strangers On rainy days we will sail endangered Rubber ducks by the thousands In those tiny pools...
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Asset-Based Community Development – 5 Core Principles
The Asset-Based Community Development approach has a set of principles, which act like a compass not a map. The five core principles of ABCD...
Read MoreIt’s from fallibility that possibility arises
On the morning of November 25, 2016 (Thanksgiving Day), John McKnight (Founding Director of the ABCD Institute) and Cormac Russell (Director of ABCD Europe)...
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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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7 Top Tips For Supporting Citizen Driven Community Building – Part 5
This is the fifth blog in a seven-part series. In this series we're sharing 7 top tips on citizen-driven community building, and how organisations...
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7 Top Tips For Supporting Citizen Driven Community Building – Part 4
This is the 4th in a series of 7 top tips for supporting citizen driven community building. This week we explore how residents can make change by...
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7 Top Tips For Supporting Citizen Driven Community Building – Part 3
“Love once, love always” - George Eliot, Silas Marner In the first two blogs of this series, we explored the importance of finding a trusted local...
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7 Top Tips For Supporting Citizen Driven Community Building – Part 2
This week's blog is the second in a series of seven top tips for supporting citizen-driven community building. The seven top tips for supporting...
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Launch of Nurture Development’s new offer: Going Deeper, Growing Impact
On behalf of the Nurture team, I'm really excited to share our new offer with you. We hope you like it, but more importantly...
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Sharing our Theory of (Practice Based) Change
This blog aims to build upon last week’s three part series entitled 13 Staging Posts of Learning and Development. We’d like to lift out...
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