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@john-l-mcknight
• 4 years ago
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Posted a new blog:
What Counts?
What Counts?
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...
@john-l-mcknight
• 4 years ago
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Updated a Blog:
Who Should Have the Final Say in Community Decision-making: Learning from Pilots, Pastors and Guards
Who Should Have the Final Say in Community Decision-making: Learning from Pilots, Pastors and Guards
Many institutions, agencies, governments and companies seek to develop effective relationships with the neighborhoods or small towns that they serve. Often, these...
@john-l-mcknight
• 4 years ago
• comments: 0
Posted a new blog:
Who Should Have the Final Say in Community Decision-making: Learning from Pilots, Pastors and Guards
Who Should Have the Final Say in Community Decision-making: Learning from Pilots, Pastors and Guards
Many institutions, agencies, governments and companies seek to develop effective relationships with the neighborhoods or small towns that they serve. Often, these...
@john-l-mcknight
• 5 years ago
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Updated a Blog:
Community Dreams: The Power of Citizen Authority
Community Dreams: The Power of Citizen Authority
For many years before Ronald Reagan’s administration, the Federal Government provided funds to Regional Health Planning Agencies. These agencies oversaw the area...
@john-l-mcknight
• 5 years ago
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Posted a new blog:
Community Dreams: The Power of Citizen Authority
Community Dreams: The Power of Citizen Authority
For many years before Ronald Reagan’s administration, the Federal Government provided funds to Regional Health Planning Agencies. These agencies oversaw the area...
@john-l-mcknight
• 5 years ago
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Updated a Blog:
A Conversation with John McKnight, Co-Founder of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute by Albert Dzur, National Civic Review
A Conversation with John McKnight, Co-Founder of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute by Albert Dzur, National Civic Review
In his teachings and writings, John McKnight, co-founder and co-director of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute at DePaul University, has echoed Alexis de...
@john-l-mcknight
• 5 years ago
• comments: 0
Posted a new blog:
A Conversation with John McKnight, Co-Founder of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute by Albert Dzur, National Civic Review
A Conversation with John McKnight, Co-Founder of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute by Albert Dzur, National Civic Review
In his teachings and writings, John McKnight, co-founder and co-director of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute at DePaul University, has echoed Alexis de...
@john-l-mcknight
• 5 years ago
• comments: 0
Posted a new blog:
In Search of the Tie That Binds
In Search of the Tie That Binds
One way of classifying associations is in terms of whether or not they are space-bounded. The greatest number of associations are not space-bound. However, our focus...
@john-l-mcknight
• 5 years ago
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Posted a new blog:
Embracing Deviance
Embracing Deviance
One of the unfortunate results of assigning responsibility for marginal people to institutions and professionals is that citizens lose their capacity to incorporate...
@john-l-mcknight
• 5 years ago
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Posted a new blog:
The Affinity Dilemma
The Affinity Dilemma
The essence of most associational groups is that they are composed of a group of people who care about each other and/or the same thing. By its very nature, this...
@john-l-mcknight
• 5 years ago
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Posted a new blog:
The Dilemma of Meetings
The Dilemma of Meetings
In many neighborhoods, local associations establish a schedule of meetings and the focus is on what should happen at that time. One of Saul Alinsky’s inviolable...
@john-l-mcknight
• 5 years ago
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Updated a Blog:
The Problem With Problems
The Problem With Problems
At a Kettering meeting with City Managers, I was struck by how universally the focus of relationships with community was “problems.” Certainly, problems are one way...