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There are three non-negotiable tools for building and maintaining a healthy community 🤝 Learn from Community Admin Gema Haro how to make your dream team a reality!

To my LinkedIn friends and colleagues,   Some of you are aware of my passion for documentaries covering topics such as industry, government, public figures, and transportation. It's my privilege to share with you a documentary (see YouTube link below) about my hometown of Jefferson City, MO, which captures the oral history of residents from a black neighborhood known as "The Foot". This area was a vibrant mixed-use community, boasting everything from hotels to grocery stores. When it came to entertainment, The Foot was a hotspot where talented musical acts like Ike and Tina Turner often performed. I'm sharing this video not just because it's about my hometown, where many of my family members still reside, but because it provides a broader insight into the issue of Urban Renewal. We all know that Urban Renewal initiatives were largely destructive practices that disproportionately affected low-income and minority neighborhoods. However, too often, I think people associate Urban Renewal as an issue that only impacted large urban areas like Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, NYC, and St. Louis.    Small cities, like the one I grew up in, also suffered from this same negative approach to planning, and the impacts it had on small communities were just as devastating for those who lived there as they were for residents of big cities.   Many of you are involved in industries that support and lead projects with the potential to profoundly influence both infrastructure and the social fabric of the communities they serve. This documentary, along with other examples, serves as a reminder that what we do truly matters and can have a lasting and deep impact. We must never lose sight of this as we advise and lead such developments.     Happy Black History Month! https://lnkd.in/gtXy9tfC

There are three non-negotiable tools for building and maintaining a healthy community 🤝 Learn from Community Admin Gemma Haro how to make your dream team a reality!

The book seems very interesting and speaks to a topic close to my heart. Emphasizing ABCD (Asset-Based Community Development) and codesign principles, it's about relationship building and empowering communities. Adding to this from my experience, facilitators can play an important role in creating spaces where people can not only warm up to each other but also to the purpose at hand. It's about nurturing relationships that are inherently healing and building social capital as a means to collectively drive meaningful change from the inside out and from the bottom up. Relationships are very important and will sustain the work and often there is "work" to be done. What other people think?

The Trust for Civic Life and $8 million to fund civic participation in rural communities are examples of what philanthropy can accomplish when funders work together. That was the goal when Stephen Heinz, president of Rockefeller Brothers Fund, asked Carnegie Corporation of New York to join a funder collaborative a year ago, resulting in an early commitment of $3.5 million from the foundation. Today the collaborative has 15 funders. The Trust’s work is grounded in research that was funded by philanthropy and conducted by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Its report titled "Our Common Purpose" made a strong impression. It provides pragmatic, nonpartisan approaches to countering mistrust and division in our society. A second round of grants to support civic entrepreneurs is planned for later this year, and if all goes as planned, the collaborative will invest $50 million over the next five years. https://lnkd.in/ebyPnCVt

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Dedra Chamberlin reports back on one of the best Internet2 Community Exchanges she's attended! You can read more of her reflections on the conference below. https://hubs.li/Q02sV_P80