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Peter Block is a partner in Designed Learning, a training company that offers workshops designed by Block to build the skills outlined in his books. He is the author of Flawless Consulting, Stewardship, The Answer to How Is Yes, and Community. He is the recipient of numerous awards, most recently... read more...
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Communities, Not Countries, Are Best Equipped to Fix the World’s Economic Woes
Local communities are constructing an economy and ways of being that promise more stability and local control than looking outward or upward for solutions to our economic anxiety.
April 19, 2017
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Peter Block posted a blog post
You Are the Guest: Chat Box Comments
Some of the issues raised by listeners, and their responses to John and Peter's dialog on their latest thinking, grabbed from the conversation's chat box on December 12, 2016.
April 19, 2017
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Peter Block posted a blog post
John and Peter share some of their latest thinking on building new connections and relationships to strengthen our neighborhoods and communities in a transcription of their December 12, 2016 online / dial-up dialog.
April 19, 2017
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Peter Block posted a blog post
What is Possible in Re-humanizing the West?
Restore Commons is a collection of compelling ideas and activism whose intent is to open our thinking about: alternative economy, alternative journalism, architecture and space that connect us, and active and missional faith communities ~ all essentials in reclaiming the common good.
April 19, 2017
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Nutrition and Nurture Designed for Body and Spirit
The Reverend Angel Garcia Rodriguez is a Spanish priest who is also an innovator and entrepreneur whose nonprofit enterprises are designed to nourish the body and spirit of those in need.
April 19, 2017
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Peter Block posted a blog post
From the premise of the African saying “It takes a village to raise a child,” John explains how largely untapped neighborhood educational assets can be activated to provide incredible learning opportunities for our children.
April 19, 2017
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Strangers Become Family at This Multigenerational Housing Project
A unique affordable-housing community supports both foster families and elders who might be looking for a few extra grandchildren. It's the proverbial village caring for everyone.
April 19, 2017
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Fare & Square - Michael, Shopper
Born and raised in Chester, PA, Michael Cooper shops at Fare & Square, Philabundance's nonprofit grocery store. Here he shares why he loves the store and how it helps make the most impact, not profit, in the community.
April 19, 2017
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Cormac Russell on Change That Starts with Communities
Environmental activist and writer Rob Hopkins talks with Nurture Development's Cormac Russell on community development and what happens when people come together and behave effectively in a way that’s about right relationships with each other and the place that they're in.
April 19, 2017
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Chester’s Nonprofit Food Market Tries to Square Mission with Bottom Line
How Fare & Square, the first nonprofit grocery store in the nation, turned a food desert into an oasis of good food and community abundance.
April 19, 2017
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Chester Supermarket 'Fare & Square' Changing Lives in Community
Philadelphia's NBC10 reporter Matt DeLucia shows how Fare & Square became the first supermarket in the city in more than 15 years and changed lives in the community.
April 19, 2017
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Peter Block posted a blog post
A Valentine’s essay for all the caring change-makers out there, especially those whose efforts are ignored or misunderstood.
April 19, 2017
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Sixteen years ago the only grocery store in Chester, PA closed. Today, there’s “good food right around the corner" at Fare & Square, the nation’s first nonprofit grocery store, which is making healthy food available to all and stretching customers’ dollars so they get more for their money.
April 19, 2017
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Peter Block posted a blog post
A Neighborhood Impact Statement: Changing the Burden of Proof
John outlines a process that a coalition of neighborhood associations might use with proposed institutional interventions to demonstrate in advance positive impacts measured against local community standards.
April 19, 2017
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Five Keys to Broad and Inclusive Community Engagement
Some simple rules of engagement to build strong communities.
April 19, 2017
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Peter Block posted a blog post
As a present to himself in anticipation of his seventy-eighth birthday, Parker reflects on six lessons he has learned so far in his time on earth. “If one or two of them turn out to be gifts for you,” he says, “my birthday will be even happier.”
April 19, 2017
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Peter Block posted a blog post
How a Health Clinic Made a Local Grocery Store Part of Its Prescription
A partnership between a Boston health clinic and a local grocery shows what economic development can do when it makes community health a priority.
October 4, 2016
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Peter Block Talks Community, the Consumer Culture and the Promise of Learning
Peter shares his unique perspective on challenging the status quo in his interview with "About Campus" executive editor Frank Shushok, Jr.
September 30, 2016
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Peter Block posted a blog post
John explores two underlying questions raised by his recent book, co-authored with Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann: How will we know when we have departed the consumer culture? and How will we know we have arrived?
September 9, 2016
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Change Thoughts about Money, Change the World!
Robert H. Thompson of leaderinsideout.com talks with Tim Soerens and Kevin Jones, founders of the SOCAP (Social Capital Markets) Conference, about money and how it is not working for us in a way that creates the kind of lives we want to be living.
August 31, 2016
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Transcribed highlights from John and Peter's wide-ranging conversation on "The Gift of Fallibility" touch on competition in our society, perfectionism and the wish for predictability and control, the unintended consequences of technology, and many other concerns in shifting toward a community wa...
August 15, 2016
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Top 21 Reasons to Live in Branch
From magnificent scenery, low taxes and crime rate, and excellent schools to fresh fish, eligible bachelors, and The Singing Kitchen, Priscilla Corcoran Mooney and her neighbors in tiny Branch, Newfoundland, charted their assets and spread the word about the power even a small community can disc...
August 15, 2016
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Peter Block posted a blog post
After a short article on the Little Free Pantry of Fayetteville, Arkansas, spread through social networks, other neighborhoods were inspired to duplicate this low-cost, direct-action approach to share surplus food and household goods.
August 15, 2016
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Change Thoughts about Money . . . Change the World!
Robert H. Thompson of leaderinsideout.com talks with Tim Soerens and Kevin Jones, founders of the SOCAP (Social Capital Markets) Conference, about money and how it is not working for us in a way that creates the kind of lives we want to be living.
July 27, 2016
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Jubilee - Professor Adam Clark
Xavier University theologian Adam Clark explains the idea of Jubilee and how it brings us to the intersection of the bible and economics.
July 11, 2016
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Peter Block posted a blog post
More with Professor Adam Clark
Xavier University theologian Adam Clark talks about today’s form of slavery and how, in addition to protest, we need to turn towards something paralleling the beloved community of the sixties. He also talks about how consumerism has become our modern religion and what justice looks like in terms...
July 11, 2016
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Sustainable Community Development: From What's Wrong to What's Strong
How can we help people to live a good life? Instead of trying to right what's wrong within a community, Cormac argues in this video of his TEDxExeter talk that we need to start with what's strong. We need to help people discover what gifts they have and to use those gifts to enrich those around ...
July 11, 2016
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Neighbors As Citizens Making Democracy Work
Transcribed highlights from John and Peter's conversation with Kettering Foundation president and CEO David Mathews on the role of citizens in making democracy work as it should. For more than three decades, David has led the Foundation’s work with communities and institutions from the citizen's...
May 20, 2016
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Men, Better Neighbours Than Friends?
Howard Lawrence reflects on his own way of connecting. When he is at home feeling isolated, he heads outside to see who is working on fixing or building something and pitches in.
May 4, 2016
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Peter Block posted a blog post
Eight Questions for Thinking and Acting Like a Movement
Movements open our hearts and minds. They create the favorable political conditions for legislative change, resource allocation and policy shifts that lead to profound social change.
April 22, 2016
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Peter Block is now a member of Berrett-Koehler Community
