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Building Abundant Communities (Part 2 of 4): Trainer-Teacher-Learners in Action
Trainer-teacher-learners, in spite of frequently citing a lack of funding and other resources as an impediment to success, are often extremely effective at creating and sustaining what John McKnight...
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Building Abundant Communities (Part 3 of 4): Inner Sunset Park Neighbors
When we’re lucky enough to have a group like San Francisco’s Inner Sunset Park Neighbors (ISPN) nurturing an abundant community in our own backyard, every day is Thanksgiving Day. It’s as if the key...
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Building Abundant Communities (Part 4 of 4): Hidden Garden Steps
New community possibilities emerge “when we and other neighbors know of each other’s gifts,” John McKnight and Peter Block suggest in their book The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families...
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Christopher Alexander and the Architecture of Collaboration (Part 2 of 2)
While there are numerous wonderful and obvious resources available to anyone interested in building successful collaborations, there are also gems—case studies—that are easily overlooked simply because...
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Hidden Garden Steps: Dreams Taking Shape
When dreams take shape, the communities that helped create them notice—as was obvious last Saturday (July 20, 2013) while 110 of the 148 ceramic-tile step pieces that will eventually be installed on...
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Gavin Newsom and Citizenville: From Virtual Sheep to Real Community...
One of the sweetest moments in what is a wonderful paean to community, collaboration, and the technology that can help foster those two critically important elements of civilization comes when Gavin...
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Hidden Garden Steps: A Community Continuing to Evolve
The Hidden Garden Steps ceramic-tile mosaic created and completed by project artists Aileen Barr and Colette Crutcher is in place here in San Francisco, and an ever-expanding community has quickly...
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ALA Annual Conference 2014: Ernie DiMattia and Learning Moments That Change...
Conference attendance, whether onsite or online, can be transformative. The planned and unplanned encounters with colleagues, the vendors with whom we work, the authors we adore (or are going to adore...
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Abundant Communities in Action: Street Parks, Gardens, Steps, and Rainbows
When San Francisco Department of Public Works (DPW) and San Francisco Parks Alliance (SFPA) representatives gathered over the weekend to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Street Parks Program, they...
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Hidden Garden Steps: Anniversaries, Community, and Gratitude
Gratitude is built into San Francisco’s Hidden Garden Steps—as it is with any community-based, volunteer-driven collaboration that transforms an eyesore into a place where neighbors and visitors from...
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