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		<title>Neighborhood Leading with LaDeitra</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Rebecca Lujan Loveless&#8211;POLIS Institute The Community Center at The Palms Trailer Park bustled with life on a recent cool Saturday morning.  This was unusual because up until that week the trailer that housed the Community Center was only open Monday through Friday.  This Saturday, the neighborhood residents came in and out, using the computers, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&amp;blog=20103823&amp;post=2157&amp;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Success Empowers Neighbors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eric Smith&#8211;Think Tank, Inc. and Springfield Promise Neighborhood The neighborhood work in the Lincoln area began with the planning for the launch of the Springfield Promise Neighborhood (SPN) initiative. It was decided that there should be an event held on  the grounds of the partner school, Lincoln Elementary, that would get children, youth, and families [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&amp;blog=20103823&amp;post=2150&amp;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dignity Christmas Store</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clark Blakeman&#8211; Second Stories Five kids ranging from 8 to 3 years old came rolling out of the metal door on a small building across the parking lot from the neighborhood church, a mother chasing behind.  Rapidly fired words mixed with giggles, package shaking, and directionless walking made the mom’s work of corralling the kids [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&amp;blog=20103823&amp;post=2142&amp;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ABCD:  Neighbors Influence the Next Generation</title>
		<link>http://communitiesfirstassociation.org/2012/02/15/abcd-neighbors-influence-the-next-generation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eric Smith&#8211;Think Tank, Inc. and Springfield Promise Neighborhood I met George Young at the Springfield Promise Neighborhood Kickoff and Community Celebration, the first community event planned alongside residents, nearly one year ago. It turns out that George is a long-time resident of the Lincoln Neighborhood. As part of the listening process, I met with George [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&amp;blog=20103823&amp;post=2138&amp;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Asset Based Community Development: Working &#8220;With&#8221; the Community</title>
		<link>http://communitiesfirstassociation.org/2012/02/13/asset-based-community-development-working-with-the-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CFA Executive Director, Jay Van Groningen, responds to a comment from a recent post, and discusses the idea of &#8220;In, To, or With:&#8221; &#8220;How does one listen to neighbors in a way that: 1. Discovers what neighbors care about enough to act on it? 2. Discovers what gifts they bring to the things they want [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&amp;blog=20103823&amp;post=2121&amp;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Food for Thought:  What&#8217;s Your View?</title>
		<link>http://communitiesfirstassociation.org/2012/02/10/friday-food-for-thought-whats-your-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in Asset Based Community Development?  Where do you start?  First, consider your view of your neighborhood; your presumptions about your neighbors and your community influence how you will engage. Communities First Association presumes the following: 1.  God is already in the community&#8211;he was there first!  This is God&#8217;s creation and God&#8217;s people.  Ministry begins by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&amp;blog=20103823&amp;post=2102&amp;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the News:  Asset Based Community Development</title>
		<link>http://communitiesfirstassociation.org/2012/02/09/in-the-news-asset-based-community-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://connect.facebook.net/rsrc.php/v1/yQ/r/f3KaqM7xIBg.swf http://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?api_key=132720883409479&#38;app_id=132720883409479&#38;channel_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs-static.ak.fbcdn.net%2Fconnect%2Fxd_proxy.php%3Fversion%3D3%23cb%3Df10d137078a214%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fcommunitiesfirstassociation.wordpress.com%252Ff12cea2196dd33%26relation%3Dparent.parent%26transport%3Dpostmessage&#38;client_id=132720883409479&#38;display=none&#38;domain=communitiesfirstassociation.wordpress.com&#38;locale=en_US&#38;origin=1&#38;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fs-static.ak.fbcdn.net%2Fconnect%2Fxd_proxy.php%3Fversion%3D3%23cb%3Df30c1b22f4c4fe%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fcommunitiesfirstassociation.wordpress.com%252Ff12cea2196dd33%26relation%3Dparent%26transport%3Dpostmessage%26frame%3Df1020f55ec61cc5&#38;response_type=token%2Csigned_request%2Ccode&#38;sdk=joey The Muskegon Chronicle highlighted CFA member Kimi Zimmerman (Community enCompass) in a February 8th on-line article.  Writer Dave Alexander describes the neighborhood transformation taking place in the McLaughlin neighborhood of Muskegon, MI, and focuses on the principles of Asset Based Community Development as the catalyst for change.  He quotes member Kimi Zimmerman, “This neighborhood has grasped [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&amp;blog=20103823&amp;post=2095&amp;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Community Impact</title>
		<link>http://communitiesfirstassociation.org/2012/02/08/community-impact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Santino-Northeast Community Transformation CFA&#8217;s network has impacted over 450 neighborhoods across the United States.  One example is Common Grace Community Connection in the rural town of Athens, Maine.  CFA member, Al Santino, came alongside Tim Curtis as he worked to form this community action group.   The group has grown in size and impact as they go about the work of community development.  Some highlights [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&amp;blog=20103823&amp;post=2085&amp;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Asset Based Community Development:  A Personal Transformation</title>
		<link>http://communitiesfirstassociation.org/2012/02/03/asset-based-community-development-a-personal-transformation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Moynihan-One Church I have been mindful of the church being a potential community change agent for the Kingdom of God all of my ministry life.  However, I have not had the skills or the language to bring about a transformational ministry in a meaningful or sustained manner in area neighborhoods.  Learning about and being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&amp;blog=20103823&amp;post=2065&amp;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neighborhood Transformation:  From Handouts to Development</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wendy McCaig, Embrace Richmond Most economically challenged communities experience scarcity of resources such as food, clothing, and especially things that cannot be purchased with food stamps like cleaning supplies, diapers and paper products.  Over the past few years we have been experimenting with ways of providing for these basic needs of our community without fostering [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&amp;blog=20103823&amp;post=2058&amp;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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