[Summit] Abundant Community FYI

[Jesse C. Polhemus]

Great resource, Gayle -- thank you!


- Jesse

--- On Thu, 2/2/12, Gayle Gifford <gayle at ceffect.com> wrote:

> From: Gayle Gifford <gayle at ceffect.com>
> Subject: [Summit] Abundant Community FYI
> To: summit at sna.providence.ri.us
> Date: Thursday, February 2, 2012, 9:00 AM
> I've been a fan of the work of Peter
> Block (organization development guru
> and author of Stewardship) and John McKnight (founder of
> Asset Based
> Community Development Institute). They've now teamed up to
> form Abundant
> Community and set up a website to promote and connect people
> to ideas,
> http://www.abundantcommunity.com/ which they describe
> below:
> 
> "Help us give form to the shift from a scarcity economy to
> an abundant
> economy. Making connections-within walking distance of our
> homes-is the way
> it begins. One goal of the website is to validate and
> organize the people in
> every neighborhood who already are connectors-the
> neighborhood builders.
> Another is to connect people around the world who want to
> learn more and do
> more to build a different kind of community, one based on
> generosity and
> cooperation, abundance and gifts."
> 
> In reading it, I thought the neighborhood association and
> neighbors might
> find it valuable.
> 
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> Gayle L. Gifford, ACFRE
> President
> Cause & Effect Inc.
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