In this podcast, two compelling thinkers – John McKnight and Peter Block – share some of their ideas for awakening the power of neighbourhoods and families, and illustrate the value of an abundant community.
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In this podcast, two compelling thinkers – John McKnight and Peter Block – share some of their ideas for awakening the power of neighbourhoods and families, and illustrate the value of an abundant community.
John McKnight is Co-Director of the Asset-Based Development Community Development Institute and Professor Emeritus of Communications Studies and Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. For more than four decades at the University his research focused on social service delivery systems, health policy, community organization, neighborhood policy and the incorporation of labeled people into community life.
Peter Block is an internationally renowned business leader, best-selling author and community enthusiast. His books are about ways to create communities and workplaces that work for all. His work is to bring change into the world through consent and connectedness rather than by mandate and force. Peter is dynamic with a highly tuned ear for the transformational.
Join Tamarack's Sylvia Cheuy, Director of Collective Impact, in this online course designed to establish a foundational understanding of the Collective Impact Framework. Learners will have the opportunity to join Sylvia for monthly small group coaching to get more personalized feedback and insight.
Take our new self-directed online course and build your Community Engagement toolkit at your own pace.
Hosted by Lisa Attygalle, Director of Community Engagement, the course will guide you through pre-recorded video lessons, case studies, and practical tools and resources.
The Designing for What's Next webinar and workshop series is aimed at practitioners looking to understand how to best design their organizations, their strategies, and shape their communities for what is to come as we encounter the changes that emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Join Vibrant Communities' Natasha Pei, Manager of Cities, in this new five-module course. Topics include Ending Working Poverty, Governments and Communities Ending Poverty, and Big Ideas for Ending Poverty.
Through this course, you'll be guided through reflective questions and exercises that will help you make the most of the course materials and content. This course is designed to help you learn at your own pace as you advocate for and advance high-impact ending poverty pathways in your community.
Join Heather Keam for our first ABCD 101 virtual workshop designed to shift your thinking so that your community is able to build their own table, and your role becomes the legs which support the table and the community-centred activities that come from it.
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