Posted in October 10, 2009 ¬ 5:06 pmh.Leo
In Empowering Neighborhoods and Restoring Play, Psychology Today columnist Peter Gray asked his readers to help him develop a proposal to build a neighborhood play and learning center “that could serve as a model that communities everywhere might emulate”. I said I’d help, and after putting in a few hours, recommended that he check out [...]
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Asset-Based Community Development, Place-based communities, community engagementabcd, darell hammond, deborah puntenney, john kretzmann, kaboom, peter gray, place-based, placemaking, playgrounds, recommended resources, video
Posted in September 15, 2009 ¬ 7:04 pmh.Leo
Source: Discovering Community Power: A Guide to Mobilizing Local Assets and Your Organization’s Capacity | The Habitat Exchange.
A. From Greyrock Commons Co-Housing Community
GIFTS I CAN GIVE MY COMMUNITY
GIFTS OF THE HEAD
Things I know something about and would enjoy talking about with others, e.g., art, history, movies, birds.
GIFTS OF THE HANDS
Things or skills I know [...]
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Posted in July 24, 2009 ¬ 11:54 pmh.Leo
Discovering Community Power: A Guide to Mobilizing Local Assets and Your Organization’s Capacity (2005) is a workbook developed by the Asset Based Community Development Institute which aims to strengthen community-based projects by enhancing both project design and proposal preparation. Based on the premise that “your community’s assets plus your organization’s assets produces strong community-based projects,” [...]
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