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Talking Friendly Streets: A Community Engagement Project

Posted by Beatrice Ekoko on June 6, 2018

I can appreciate the countryside but for me, the city is where it’s at baby--best invention ever! Great cities are bustling, densely populated, diverse and exhilarating. The movement of people within a great city is a priority, and so a great city takes very seriously its transportation networks which include, of course, its streets for walking and biking and getting around sans automobile. The point is, great cities do not prioritize vehicles; they do put people first.

Sadly, this is not the case in my city of Hamilton, Ontario.

The ABCD Workshop – What we Learned and What's to Come

Posted by Heather Keam on May 23, 2018

From April 17-19 Cities Deepening Community held an Asset-Based Community Development workshop in Kitchener, Ontario with John McKnight, Cormac Russell, Donna Thomson and almost 200 community changemakers. You can imagine there was a lot of learning to absorb! We have done our best to sum up our primary aha's! into a few takeaways.

(Dis)ability and “Enough Already”

Posted by Angela Pollack on May 9, 2018

Since attending the recent asset-based community development (ABCD) event in Kitchener, I have begun to think that I may have gotten something about community development fundamentally wrong by thinking of the term 'community' almost exclusively as a noun.

Walking for Water: Walking for Life

Posted by Mary Anne Caibaiosai on April 26, 2018

Water is an essential infrastructure in the life of our community. Our bodies are approximately 80% water. How we treat the water in our rivers is how we treat the waters in our bodies. Sick water creates sick communities. In either case, the spirit of our waters need healing because water is our life.

A New Way to Share Care - It's as Easy as ABCD!

Posted by Donna Thomson on April 22, 2018

I'm just back from a truly inspiring conference hosted by the Asset Based Community Development Institute (or ABCD) and their Canadian partner, Deepening Community at the Tamarack Institute.

The conference was titled "ABCD For Healthy Neighbourhoods" and what I learned from John McKnight, Cormac Russell, Al Etmanski and Paul Born (they are the ABCD Faculty) changed the way I think about our caregiving community.

Why We Need to Start the Conversation with What’s Strong, Not What’s Wrong

Posted by Rebecca Byers on April 19, 2018

I am fortunate to have had the opportunity to attend Tamarack’s Asset-Based Community Development for Healthy Neighbourhoods event this week. We gathered at Kitchener’s beautiful Victoria Park Pavilion in decidedly unspring-like weather conditions for this three-day gathering of community builders from across the country. The program featured two of the world’s top trainers in Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD), John McKnight and Cormac Russell, among others.

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Talking Friendly Streets: A Community Engagement Project

The ABCD Workshop – What we Learned and What's to Come

(Dis)ability and “Enough Already”

Walking for Water: Walking for Life

A New Way to Share Care - It's as Easy as ABCD!

Why We Need to Start the Conversation with What’s Strong, Not What’s Wrong

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