The Money Is the Bait, Not the Fish
March 30, 2018
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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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Empathy not Sympathy
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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Thinking Differently About Funding
How do you preserve community power and autonomy in the face of grants from organizations that have predefined the agenda before communities have even...
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Touchstone Eight: Celebrate every step of the way
We’ve covered a lot of ground over the last two months in this series, entitled: The Eight Touchstones of Community Building. We’ve also shared many...
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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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Touchstone Six: Visioning and Planning
Once a strong connection is built with the community, it’s time to look to the future and envision what it could look like in...
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Touchstone Five: Building Connections and Social Interactions
This week we’ll be looking at touchstone five: building connections and social interactions....
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Touchstone Four: Engaging Local Groups and Associations
The transformative relational power that would be generated if we learnt how to build an association of associations in every neighbourhood, could be our...
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Touchstone Three: Appreciating the assets of the local community
In this third blog of the Eight Touchstones of Community Building series, Chris a member of the Nurture Development team shares the story of...
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Touchstone Two: Recruiting a Community Animator
The strength of a community or the various groups that make it up, should not be measured by the capacity of individual leaders but...
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Touchstone One: Introducing connectors to each other and forming a Community Building team
The work of building community belongs to those who reside there, it is the work of near neighbours; not salaried strangers :- this means...
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Building the community – connecting community practitioners
In December 2015 Nick Gardham (Community Organisers Ltd) and Cormac Russell (Nurture Development UK) set out in a three-part blog (see links below) series...
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