Being ready to use your organisational resources to build community, instead of institutional prowess, client numbers, or revenue, involves making visible, through action, at...
I’ve often been asked ‘what’s the difference between Asset-Based Community Development and Appreciative Inquiry?’
Well needless to say there is a huge amount of overlap,...
If 'how to end loneliness?' is your question, community building is the answer.
[caption id="attachment_3291" align="aligncenter" width="364"] Artist: Graham Ogilvie. Used with the kind permission...
Over the last twenty years, across the world, I've come across four distinct ways of thinking about building community in difficult times. Naturally enough,...
Ultimately, Doctor Guillotin wanted to radically reform the penal code by having the death penalty abolished. Yet, today he is remembered for helping to...
The following is a guest blog written by Al Etmanski (aletmanski.com). Al is a community organizer, social entrepreneur and author. John McKnight is his...
[caption id="attachment_3527" align="alignright" width="219"] Image from the film 'Get Low' (2009)[/caption]
In this morning's national newspaper The Irish Times the front page headline reads:
"Economic activity...
Bonding and Bridging atoms
Currently, populist theories of social and economic change in the Global North, suggest that crises’ in the domains of democracy, health,...
