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		<title>John McKnight:  Taking Back Our Children</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video was originally posted at www.abundantcommunity.com.     John McKnight is emeritus professor of education and social policy and codirector of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute at Northwestern University. He is the coauthor of Building Communities from the Inside Out and the author of The Careless Society. He has been a community organizer and serves on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&#038;blog=20103823&#038;post=2516&#038;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Food for Thought:  Taking Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 18:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How will you spend your long weekend?  Remembering, visiting, relaxing&#8230;.?  As you enjoy the unofficial start of summer, take time to consider how you will be intentional about connecting with  neighbors over the next few months.  September is just around the corner!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&#038;blog=20103823&#038;post=2508&#038;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opening the Neighborhood Treasure Chest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 12:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post was originally published by John McKnight on January 11, 2011 at www.abundantcommunity.com.  Click here to see the original post.  John McKnight is emeritus professor of education and social policy and codirector of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute at Northwestern University. He is the coauthor of Building Communities from the Inside Out and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&#038;blog=20103823&#038;post=2504&#038;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Food For Thought: Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hope is the Holy Spirit-given capacity to see above, beyond, or through the immediate ruin and mess all around us, in order to see the final accomplishment of grace that lies ahead.  Hope persists in seeing the world not only as it is, but as it can become.&#8221;  p. 16, Communities First &#8220;That’s because you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&#038;blog=20103823&#038;post=2486&#038;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communities First Association Invited to Join Panel Discussion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 9, 2012 &#8211; CFA Executive Director, Jay Van Groningen has been invited to participate in the first annual meeting of the Global Leadership Network in Atlanta, GA. The GLN was launched by the Chalmers Center and CEO Dr. Brian Fikkert, Professor of Economics and Community Development at Covenant College and author of When Helping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&#038;blog=20103823&#038;post=2425&#038;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>inCOMMON Community Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Omaha, NE     &#8220;What if poverty could be stopped before it started?&#8221; One of the thought provoking questions addressed in this short clip from inCOMMON. &#8220;The solution to poverty won&#8217;t be found in programs, but in people.&#8221; info@inCOMMONcd.org<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&#038;blog=20103823&#038;post=2477&#038;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ms. Samuels, Peterson Ave, and God&#8217;s Glory</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bethany Dudley&#8211;Requip Written by Steve Blom&#8211;Imag(in)e, Sauk Village When I joined the Beautification Committee of Sauk Village this past Summer I saw it as a unique opportunity to be a part of something positive that the community was already doing.  It would be a chance to use my head/heart/hand gift of landscaping, and to develop [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&#038;blog=20103823&#038;post=2465&#038;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Doesn&#8217;t Like a BBQ?&#8211;Scott and Sammi&#8217;s Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rebecca Lujan Loveless&#8211;POLIS Institute Scott and Sammi, residents of The Palms Trailer Park in the Holden Heights Neighborhood of Orlando, care about their neighborhood.  When asked what they think would make The Palms a better place to live, they said, “A place where friends and family can gather to barbecue, socialize and have kids play [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&#038;blog=20103823&#038;post=2457&#038;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Food For Thought:  Teens and Transformation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 13:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent post at abundantcommunity.com highlighted the often overlooked giftedness of teens within a community.  We read in the local paper about &#8220;troubled youth&#8221; and the rising concern over teen apathy, but many teens have found ways to add to the neighborhood story in a positive way.  (And, my guess is that many more would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&#038;blog=20103823&#038;post=2444&#038;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Role of Social Media and Online Community in Building Neighborhood-Based Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; May 2012, Brianna Menning     Community built online can be a false sense of community. This is not to say that it doesn’t have a role, but that it’s difficult to build authenticity in relationships with something like Facebook if there isn’t also an in-person relationship. There are a number of new sites and tools [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=communitiesfirstassociation.org&#038;blog=20103823&#038;post=2438&#038;subd=communitiesfirstassociation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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