by CommunityWorks | Mar 18, 2024 | Videos
On June 8 we visited with Rev. Damon Lynch, III, Gene Ellington, and Amber Twitty to learn how they used Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) to transform–both socially and economically–the Roselawn and Bond Hill neighborhoods of Cincinnati. Click the...
by CommunityWorks | Mar 16, 2024 | Videos
Two of the great luminaries of the global Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) movement — John McKnight, Co-Founder of the ABCD Institute, and Cormac Russell, Director of ABCD Europe — join with Tecca Jones of Grand Rapids to discuss “The...
by CommunityWorks | Mar 8, 2024 | Blogs
Bates Place Neighbors (BPN), based in Grand Rapids, MI, is passionate about neighborhood strengthening. In 2021, CommunityWorks formally linked with BPN as a supporting partner. Wayne Squires, BPN director, remarked, “We so appreciate the ongoing training and...
by CommunityWorks | Feb 25, 2024 | Videos
Listen in to a moderated discussion with Wayne Squires, Director of Bates Place Neighbors, and two Community Connectors, Tecca and Luke, of the Baxter and Bates Place neighborhoods. You will learn how neighborhoods in Grand Rapids, MI are growing into safe and strong...
by CommunityWorks | Feb 18, 2024 | Videos
Listen as Wyoming’s Mayor, Jack Poll, our community connector in the Godfrey Lee neighborhood, Doris Perez, and Godfrey Lee resident and neighborhood team leader, Susan Van Bronkhorst, discuss how steady efforts to connect with neighbors add up to stronger, more...