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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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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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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Mostly with good intentions, institutions develop processes that degrade the human capacity, inventiveness and autonomy of the person/persons they serve....
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The concept of ‘abundant communities’ is vital as it recognizes that the huge reservoir of individual, associational, cultural, economic and ecological capacities we have...
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"It benefits without pretension, it is content with it’s nature, and therefore can’t be faulted."...
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That life is a terminal condition should focus us, all the more strongly, on building community as a wise course of action in shaping...
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Start with a focus on that which is external, beyond our own senses and our influence is to inadvertently render that which is proximate...
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Recently I’ve been reflecting on the power of language and its ability to influence and fundamentally shape how institutions relate to the communities that...
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Rather than client or customer, when you refer to someone as a citizen you see them as a primary inventor of a better tomorrow...
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Here the “fish” is social capital, not fiscal capital, in fact fiscal capital is only used as bait to draw out, and productively connect...
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Sympathy creates dependence between ‘the needy’ and the ‘needed’, at the expense of interdependence at the center of community life. Empathy invites people who...
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