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Communities around the world are entering a new era of community building. Whether improving economic conditions and reducing poverty, re-energizing citizens and social programs, reducing crime, or revitalizing a troubled neighbourhood, they are engaging people from all sectors as never before to work together as equals to improve their quality of life.
At the heart of this engagement are community conversations, in which common goals are embraced by a diverse array of people with different backgrounds and needs, and influencers are drawn from multiple sectors, including community organizations, the various levels of government, and businesses big and small.
Full of informative and inspiring examples of collaboration, Community Conversations, a new Tamarack book by Paul Born, captures the essence of creating such conversations and offers ten practical techniques to host conversations in your community. Learn more here.
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Creating Vibrant Communities: How Individuals and Organizations from Diverse Sectors of Society are Coming Together to Reduce Poverty in Canada.
Vibrant Communities Canada is a national project to reduce poverty in Canada. A relatively young national initiative, the learning generated during its formative years (2002–2006) was extensive. This book, edited by Paul Born, attempts to capture and share the knowledge generated during that time, in the hopes of including you in our conversation about community change and poverty reduction. Read this book to learn more about innovative comprehensive community initiatives and successful Canadian community campaigns to reduce poverty. Learn more here.
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Can an organization reduce poverty? Can a community? Paul Born is convinced that a community can take leadership and develop a new infrastructure to reduce poverty.
In Leaderful Communities, Born explores the fundamental nature of community leadership and suggests:
- Community leadership cannot exist without community.
- Community leadership is based on values. There is no more profound way to express its fundamental nature.
- Community leadership is about collective purpose.
Community leadership is evident when people engage together through shared values in a collective purpose for the good of their community.
Sample Leaderful Communities:
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Belonging is about being – it’s about sense, emotion, relationship - it is at the essence of where we all want to be. It’s a place and a feeling we yearn for. And, when we feel as though we belong, we are in community.
Paul Born continues his research and writing for his forthcoming book Seeking Community - Finding Belonging in Chaotic Times, to be released in 2010.
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