Taken from "The Neighbor Next Door", the first of a 5-part conversation between Cormac Russell & the Good Neighbors Network: Cormac Russell: Part 1 The Neighbor...
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This week's blog post is sharing a new article (published 13 February 21) by Cormac Russell entitled "Supporting Community Participation in a Pandemic" published...
Read MoreThis week Julian Abel talks with Cormac Russell, student and expert practitioner at the same time of Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) and founder...
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Hi, my name is Shaun McBride and I started as an intern at Nurture Development, helping build the Community Renewal Centre, back in Autumn...
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Stephen K. Muntet was born and raised in Maasai Mara, Kenya, here in his article entitled: “A Cow is Life”, he recounts firsthand experiences of...
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In responding to last week’s blog Simon Duffy President of the Citizens Network Coop, noted: “@CormacRussell says polarsation is not caused by extremism. Extremism feeds...
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Those who frame the issues hold the power. Social, political and economic challenges are typically framed in ways that most citizens don’t get a...
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The author focuses on rebuilding democracy from the asset-based community development (ABCD) perspective. ABCD builds on what is already present within a community; citizens are collectively...
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To paraphrase G.K. Chesterton, the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left...
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Who Moved My Cheese? is a book with an entertaining yet profound parable for the challenges that “change” presents. Four characters who live in a...
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Twenty-seven years ago, the best-selling book, Building Communities from Inside Out: A Path towards finding and mobilizing a Community’s Assets (1993), authored by John...
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[caption id="attachment_4808" align="alignright" width="300"] John McKnight and Cormac in Spring Green, Wisconsin, January 2019[/caption] “And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden...
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