An initiative of Peter Block and friends, Restore Commons aims to curate the ways of thinking and practice towards the common good.
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Reminder! This Tues. Sept. 22nd @ 1pm EST join conversations with John & Peter. This month's topic is "Adventures in Neighborhood Caring" with Rev. Darryl Answer & Stephanie Answer. Register here: ow.ly/Fjjw50BvKt3
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Tomorrow (Aug. 7 at noon Eastern) on visit our Facebook page to join the moderated premier of our conversation featuring guest DeAmon Harges with John, Peter and other social innovators on putting the neighborhood at the center of community-building work. ow.ly/SaBC50AT1ut
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Guest David Korten will join John McKnight and Peter Block in conversation about how our common future depends on a New Economy and what that looks like. Join the free June 16th zoom call: ow.ly/m5Y050A74E4
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Our culture is inexhaustible in its capacity to ignore our reliance on others. See the Al Etmanski Reader at ow.ly/3C6H50zoABk and join Al Etmanski on April 27th at Common Good Collective’s Abundant Community Conversation by registering at ow.ly/CsIw50zoABj
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Join John McKnight, Peter Block & Eve Pearlman on March 3 (1 pm Eastern) to learn about ways we can act, as a group and as individuals, to put #community at the center of #journalism. Details: ow.ly/8WD850yy7M1
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Please join us on Wednesday, February 5 at 1 pm Eastern for our conversation with Rev. Damon Lynch III to learn about ways each of us can participate in reducing the wealth gap and putting a full stop on slavery. Register for this free event: ow.ly/I1UK50ycsvB
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Cincinnati you're in for a treat this Sat. at the Jubilee Experience. We're using #artisticexpression to raise cultural #awareness. Come out and show your support by being a part of the #jubileecincy movement. To RSVP please visit jubileecincinnati.eventbrite… #ARTmeetsActivism
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This fall our Co-CEOs @paulborn & @weaverworks will share their thoughts on some of the latest #communitychange trends across Canada!
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Join our next live conversation on Tuesday, Aug. 6 at 1 p.m. Eastern featuring guest Mike Butler. Mike has been at the forefront of the restorative justice movement for more than 30 years. Info: ow.ly/eZAg50vlKxL
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"What we as government, social service, education, and corporate generosity are now doing is worthwhile, but not powerful enough," says Peter Block. Learn about joining the #Jubilee movement: ow.ly/PxVD50uTGNa
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TOMORROW: Join our live conversation June 18, 1 p.m. ET featuring Pastor Mike Mather. He will share what he does to uncover the gifts present in his congregations and put them to work in the surrounding neighborhood. Details: ow.ly/H3FU50uGxtf
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John McKnight and @CormacRussell I, would love you to join us next Tuesday (April 30) as we reflect on the essential elements of #ABCD. bit.ly/2F9a4BB
Via VC_Canada, @CommunitySeeker all welcome, please pass this on to fellow travellers🙏 BW Cormac
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The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.
~ Walter Brueggemann
#quote #TuesdayMotivation
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"Neighbourhoods are one of the foremost opportunities available to us to foster a sense of belonging."
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ABCD Healthy Neighbourhoods, Healthy Cities will gather seven of the world’s top #ABCD thought-leaders, and over 250 community and neighbourhood development practitioners.
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Many of us who are doing community development work are looking for a cookie cutter way to do the work effectively. However, everywhere ABCD is implemented it plays out differently as outcomes are contingent on the community it is applied in.
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"Only when people come together in large numbers do we get the world we want."
In this post, @aletmanski shares 8 questions to help you think and act like a movement: ow.ly/59Wz30nr0F4
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Excellent blog by @andrea_shift on the value of collective citizen-led action, community building and the courage required to support it authentically. This work is not for the faint hearted! But the rewards are abundant!
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Remembering Martin Luther King Jr today and how he called us to move beyond attributing qualities to others we deny within ourselves and how he held us accountable as citizens and Christians for the well-being of the larger community (Peter Block: Community, p. 59).
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“The price of convenience is community” - Peter Block. I would go further to say the price is our environment - think amazon and all the other things you choose that are convenient - think plastic. #peterblock #community #climatechange