By April Doner, 2020-05-08
Since COVID-19 erupted, I've been trying to find the "right" way to be useful. My attempts to help connect my neighborhood in Indianapolis, which I've moved from for now so my family can have...
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By Alan Blackshaw, 2020-05-01
Spend any time around community organisations, community services, educational facilities, health facilities and government agencies you will stumble across the term Social Justice Principles....
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By Robert Francis, 2020-04-27
An Occasional Book Review -- Michael Mather, Having Nothing, Possessing Everything: finding abundant communities in unexpected places
My friend and fellow ABCD faculty member...
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By Bruce Anderson, 2020-04-13
Covid-19 Cannot Harm Your Gifts
Where do gifts come from? Whether you believe your gifts spring from your genetic makeup, a scientific phenomenon like a “big bang”, or as a gift from a...
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By Paul Schmitz, 2020-04-08
We are living in an unprecedented, unpredictable, and scary time. It is hard for all of us. After several conversations with colleagues and much reflection on how collective impact efforts...
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By John Hamerlinck, 2020-04-06
I work at a university. Students, faculty, staff and administrators are all waist deep in trying to navigate the new normal brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. We are not alone. This is a...
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By Alan Blackshaw, 2020-04-01
Introduction
Over the last two or three years I’ve spent time considering leadership and management models/styles that are compatible with leading teams of Community Development workers....
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By John L. McKnight, 2020-03-23
At the start of any asset-based initiatives, the identification of local assets is the essential starting point. Nonetheless, in many neighborhoods, most of these local assets are not...
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By Anthony Giambroni, 2020-03-18
Hey friends,
I am not sure how I missed this element of the ABCD Institute & community, but I am glad to be here now! I started my work in faith communities from 2013-2018 and towards...
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In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, public health officials are warning us to practice social distancing. That seems like good advice given the contagious nature of the disease, but it is...
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By John L. McKnight, 2020-03-03
It’s my understanding that in chemistry, a precipitant is a reagent that produces a reaction of which it is not a part. It is analogous to one form of institutional action in relationship to a...
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By Alan Blackshaw, 2020-03-01
In 2018 the International Association of Community Development (IACD) released International Standards for Community Development Practice. The release of the standards was the result of...
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By Alan Blackshaw, 2020-02-01
I haven’t always been a runner. As a matter of fact, it wasn’t so long ago that going for a run was the last thing on my mind. Now I regularly run 5kms two or three times a week.
When I...
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By John L. McKnight, 2020-01-23
It’s useful to conceptualize what counts as a means of evaluation. Counting is a limited tool. It doesn’t really help much in determining whether there are new friendships and a web of mutual...
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By John L. McKnight, 2020-01-23
Many institutions, agencies, governments and companies seek to develop effective relationships with the neighborhoods or small towns that they serve. Often, these desirable relationships are...
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By Dee Brooks, 2020-01-22
An Overview of Conscious Co-Design by Dee Brooks
Based on reflections of the concept of The Natural and the Open from The Apparatus, by Giorgio Agamben
The overview of Conscious...
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By Alan Blackshaw, 2020-01-20
Introduction
For over a decade I worked in leadership positions in Local Government. This was a challenging, rewarding and often frustrating experience. Over that time I learnt a great...
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By Michelle Dunscombe, 2020-01-17
Bushfire Reflections
The last few months have been challenging for me as the current disastrous bushfires burn across my beautiful Australian landscape from bush to beach. At times I have...
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By Dee Brooks, 2020-01-15
I’m regularly asked about how we blend ABCD with AoH . I wrote a brief overview of our broad approach to blending ABCD and AoH a while ago and as we continue to roll out Art of...
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By Robert Francis, 2019-12-17
A Book Review - David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
When I started this book, I did not expect David Brooks, noted author, NY Times op-ed writer and PBS pundit...
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