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ABCD Institute April Higher Education Story Session:
CONNECT - Connectivity through Community Asset Mapping Co-designing with Project YouthBuild, Gainesville, Florida
April 4, 2023 at 11:00 Central Time
CONNECT represents a horizontal, iterative process between an Iranian graphic designer and educator and students/staff at Project YouthBuild, a Gainesville, Florida, branch of an AmeriCorps program devoted to high school degree completion and career training for youth forced out of public schools. Our project seeks to facilitate sustainable communication and collaboration between local community members and Project YouthBuild students whose campus is in the community.
Presenters: Samira Shiridevich, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, Department of Art and Art History, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Facilitator: Byron White, Associate Provost of Urban Research and Community Development, University of North Carolina, Charlotte and ABCD Institute Steward
For more information and to register for this free event
Decolonizing Economics Summit: The 4th Annual
Post-Capitalism Conference Thursday, April 20th – Saturday, April 22nd, 2023.
Thursday April 20th – Saturday April 22nd, 2023.
A virtual conference with an in-person closing ceremony on April 22nd in McKinleyville, CA. This 3-day virtual conference serves as a space to exchange experiences and information, strengthen alliances and networks, and to devise strategies to decenter colonial systems and implement concrete solutions to heal the land and people. Over 1,000 people participated in the 2022 Summit, and we expect even more in 2023!
For more information and to register.
Tamarack Institute - Asset-Based Community Development
June 6 - 8, 2023 St. Alberta, Alberta, Canada
Join the Tamarack Institute in the beautiful city of St. Albert, AB. Using an ABCD lens, registrants will explore how communities and municipalities can work together and build sustainable plans where the community is at the center of change. We are excited to have John McKnight (virtually), DeAmon Harges, Jim Diers and Emily Talen (virtually) and many more join us for what we know will be an exciting and inspirational conversation.
For more information and to register
2023 World Community Development Conference
June 19-22, 2023 | Darwin, Australia
A unique opportunity for global practitioners, participants, academics, policymakers, funders, and other stakeholders to share perspectives on current contexts and challenges for community development and community work. The conference will embrace global First Nations communities, and encompass cutting-edge inputs, papers, creative installations, and poster presentations on rights-based community development, addressing and engaging locally, nationally, and internationally.
For more information and to register.
Tamarack Institute ABCD Community of Practice
The aim of the bi-monthly Asset-Based Community Development Community of Practice (ABCD CoP) is to go deeper on ABCD practice and explore helpful tools and resources by bringing together practitioners and residents who are applying or are seeking to apply an ABCD approach to their community development work.
Next topic: The Power of Community
March 28, 1:00 - 2:30 Eastern Time Zone
For more information and to sign up
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 Welcome, New Board Members to the ABCD Institute!
Please welcome our four newest Board members to the ABCD institute Board, Constantine Bitsas, Ben Wheeler, Jess Wyatt and Ruthie Yow. They bring a wealth of talent and experience to the Institute and we look forward to their contribution over the next several years. We are so happy to have you all on the Board!
Celebrating the Life of ABCD Institute Co-founder Jody Kretzmann
Senator Mary Coyle gave a moving and powerful tribute to the late Jody Kretzmann on the Canadian Senate Floor.
Click to watch the video.
Jody touched the lives of so many of us and is sorely missed.
New Book by Steward Paul Born: Breakthrough Community Change: A Guide to creating common agendas that change everything
Coming out April 12, Paul's book was inspired by John McKnight and all ABCD Stewards. John wrote the forward and there is also a chapter about ABCD in it. For those of you who attended the workshop Paul did for Stewards in 2021 hosted by the ABCD Institute – the content will be familiar. Discover a powerful methodology for bringing communities together to uncover hidden assets and transform deep-rooted challenges.
To learn more and advance order the book
ENGAGE! Women's Empowerment & Active Citizenship Newsletter from the Coady Institute
The ENGAGE project is a partnership between Coady and five organizations in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India and Tanzania. Together, they using and exploring asset-based, community-led development approaches in their organizations and communities. Taking a feminist lens, the project is working to strengthen women’s leadership, economic development, and active citizenship.
Read about their collaborative activities here
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INVITATIONS TO CONTRIBUTE / COLLABORATE
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Seeking stories from US based practitioners
ABCDI Stewards Hunter Goodman and Allison Lourash are seeking stories from US Based practitioners to include in a presentation we are doing at the Community Development Society conference in Portland, Oregon in July. We are facilitating a roundtable on using ABCD approaches and tools that can be used in both urban and rural (and in-between) that fits their theme “Hood & Holler”. We are looking to record stories to make into short videos over Zoom on things like Placemaking, Asset Mapping, Gifts Inventory, 5-Hs, etc. You do not have to have stories for both urban and rural settings, we will pair them with others. If you are attending the Community Development Society, we also welcome co-presenters.
We are planning to create an E-book piece (www.abcd-ebook.site) once complete. Contact Allison Lourash at allison@lourash.com or 715-205-7305 to connect about this opportunity.
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Rural ABCD Community of Practice Groups
We have two Rural ABCD Community of Practice groups for individuals who have a working knowledge of ABCD and who are practicing ABCD in a rural environment. Our purpose is to gather rural practitioners of ABCD together to share stories, experiences, tools and ways of building on the assets in our rural communities, addressing shared or recurring challenges and how we turn them into opportunities.
Group 1: Meets Third Tuesday of the month at 10:00 am Central Time
You can learn more about this group here or email Wendy McCaig or Heather Keam.
Group 2: Meets bimonthly
April 17, 6:00 pm Central US Time / April 18, 9:00 am Melbourne AUS Time
Topic: Disaster/Emergency Management
Zoom Link | Meeting ID: 862 1598 7372 | Passcode: 063295
June 13, 6:00 pm Central US Time / June 14, 9:00 am Melbourne AUS Time
Topic: Trauma Informed Work in Rural Communities
For more information about this group email Michelle Dunscombe or Allison Lourash
Story & Culture Community of Practice
This group is for ABCD practitioners who believe that story is a key asset in community-strengthening efforts and value storytelling as an effective community-building practice. The goal of the group is to work together to answer this question: "How might we cultivate spaces where soul-full stories are shared, develop processes for gathering and weaving them together, and platforms for sharing them in a way that shifts harmful narratives toward more hope-filled ones?"
You can learn more about this group here or email Wendy McCaig
Faith-Full ABCD Community of Practice
This group is for faith-rooted individuals who have the desire to learn and practice Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) as they engage with our local communities. (Members of this community could be staff, clergy, agency directors, volunteers - whoever has been called to lead and inspire others as they work with their local communities.) This group defines faith very broadly as an asset in the development effort and seeks to create a space that is inclusive of all faith traditions. You can learn more about this group here or email Wendy McCaig or Jodi Koeman.
Connecting Community Movements & A New Commons
Stewarded by ABCD practitioner and Generative Journalism co-founder Peter Pula, an interdisciplinary, global group of community-centered innovators have launched a series of gatherings and conversations around the question, "What if We Connected Community Movements Around the World?" The group also functions as a community of practice around liberatory, participatory convening technologies including (but not limited to) Small Group Questions, Open Space, Design Cafe, and Generative Journalism. You are invited to join in this emergent experiment and exchange! See more here.
Content Request for AbundantCommunity.com
This is an ongoing invitation to pass along any fantastic content rooted in ABCD principles to April Doner for consideration to be posted on AbundantCommunity.com. Content can be of various media, including articles, blogs, videos, podcasts, poetry, etc. We prioritize content created by or spotlighting on-the-ground neighborhood practitioners, BIPOC individuals, women, or folks with disabilities or low incomes. Reach April at aprildoner@gmail.com.
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STORIES, BLOGS, PODCASTS & TOOLS
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BLOGS, STORIES, ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS
From AbundantCommunity.com, Curated by April Doner
PODCASTS AND VIDEOS
Neighborhoods as Magical Places
John McKnight & Cormac Russell discuss their new book, The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth & Power of Neighborhoods, as a part of the DePaul University ABCD Institute Book talk at DePaul University on January 19.
Listen to the episode
TOOLS
Amazing Harvest and Recordings of Jeder Institute's 'Days Starting with T' ABCD Teaching and Learning Series
During the long, lonely days of the pandemic in 2020, Dee Brooks, Michelle Dunscombe and Fiona Miller started gathering folks over Zoom for Tuesday and Thursday calls on ABCD participatory community building. They ended up hosting a series of 52 sessions with guest presenters from 6 countries. Over 1,000 participants joined from over 12 countries. Here is a beautifully illustrated harvest with links to recordings of all the calls and presentations. Download the Harvest
Community Action Planning Kit from the Jeder Institute
People in communities have incredible ideas - whether it's to create a new group or to begin a local project or initiative. The challenge can sometimes be where to start. We often don’t know what the first step is, who we should speak to or if anyone would be interested in our idea. The Community Project: Idea to Action Planning Kit is designed to help take the first step.
Click here to download the file
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JOB OPPORTUNITIES AND RFP's
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Funding Opportunity
The Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive is excited to open the next round of CoFUND, their regranting program, aimed to support and build the collective resilience of food and land-justice-based cooperatives; led by Queer, Trans, Black, and Indigenous People of Color, of all ages are encouraged to apply!
Application deadline March 31
Click here to apply.
Postdoctoral fellowship in Social Justice opportunity at Case Western
The Social Justice Institute (SJI) at Case Western Reserve University is inviting applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in social justice. The fellowship will focus on the goal of advancing knowledge, theoretical frameworks and practices in community engagement and community building across differences.The position is a grant funded postdoctoral fellowship under the direction of Professor Mark Chupp, SJI Co-Director, effective fall 2023.
For more information and to apply
New Economy Coalition network website Job Listings
View a variety of job listings their website.
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The ABCD Institute is a partner of the Irwin W. Steans Center at DePaul University in Chicago.
To learn more about the work of the Steans Center and the Egan Office for Urban Education & Community Partnerships visit the Steans Center website
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