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1   Link   Assets Based Community Development Institute
The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD)is co-directed by John L. McKnight, director of community studies at IPR, and his long-time collaborator in community research, John P. Kretzmann, an IPR senior research associate. Challenging the traditional approach to solving urban problems, which focuses service providers and funding agencies on the needs and deficiencies of neighborhoods, Kretzmann and McKnight have demonstrated that community assets are key building blocks in sustainable urban and rural community revitalization efforts. 		288
2   Link   Assets Based Community Development-- An Overview
A link the article “Asset-Based Community Development -- An Overview" by Gord Cunningham and Alison Mathie of the Coady International Institute. The article describes the approach to community-based development as one based on the principles of:a) appreciating and mobilizing individual and community talents, skills and assets (rather than focusing on problems and needs) and b) Community-driven development rather than development driven by external agencies. 		495
3   Link   Appreciative Inquiry Commons
"AI Commons" is a worldwide portal devoted to the fullest sharing of academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry and the rapidly growing discipline of positive change. 		310
4   Link   Sheila T. Isakson
Openspaceworld contains information about the Open Space community including suggestions for facilitating or participating in face-to-face and/or on-line meetings. Open Space can be described as "freedom bounded by responsibility." Open Space Technology (OST)is a set of methods for navigating through Open Space. I believe that the best way to learn about Open Space and OST is by active participation in an Open Space, which usually requires one to three days. Shorter versions obviously involve omission of some aspects of the overall method.
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5   Link   Midwest Slow Money Institute
Midwest Slow Money Institute - An Integral Approach to Creating New Wealth and a Wiser World?
Imagine investing in regional farms and food businesses that provide healthful food produced in a way that helps to enhance the ecosystem upon which it was grown. Now imagine you actually know the people working on these farms and businesses. You aren't merely one of thousands of investors in a faceless mega-corporation. You are part of a regional venture capital fund supporting businesses in your community, contributing your expertise, ideas, and insights, as well as your dollars. In return, you earn 5 - 8% cash gains, plus social and environmental returns in the form of a stronger community and restored ecosystems. You're also contributing to a new financial system, one that serves people and not the people serving the system. Feels good, doesn't it? Imagine enhancing this pride and extending connections with 'our' farms, cheese makers and bakers.

You can help shape an evolving vision of a financial system that benefits the world-its people, plant, and dirtscapes included, through participation in the formation of a Midwest Slow Money Institute.

There will be a day long workshop in Madison, WI on Monday, July 27 at the Pyle Center on Langdon St. Central to the success of the day is having key stakeholders work to discuss and formalize a network of regional stakeholders, committed to financing local food systems. If you're interested in being involved or interested in investing in patient interest, you can RSVP for the event to Michael Bartner at michael(at)slowmoneyalliance(dot)org.

I look forward to this event and I see it's potential as an integral approach to exploring a solution to our current financial woes. 		513
6   Link   Planet Earth video
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7   Link   Coyote Mentoring
Courses, books, and resources from the Wilderness Awareness School on how to connect with nature for all ages. 		143

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