This is a special post for me – a post I was asked to contribute to the “What’s Your Calling?” blog tour. “What’s Your Calling?” explores notions of “calling” from both religious and secular perspectives. “What’s Your Calling?” pushes the notion of “calling” to explore all of the stuff that makes us human: our values,… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Community Engagement Planning in 3 Steps
These days the phrase “Community Engagement” is commonly heard but not commonly understood for all its power. This weekend, we finished entirely revising our Community Engagement Action Kit. And so this whole subject is on my brain a lot. When we use Community Engagement as just one more tool in the toolbox, yes, it is… Continue Reading
Save Local Businesses! (Stuff I’m Thinking About)
Picture this: You read in the morning paper that another one of your favorite small businesses has just closed – a health-food store, a hardware store, a book store. You rail against the gods of the mega-corporations, lamenting the death of your community’s soul, wishing someone would do something. Picture this: You are at the… Continue Reading