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Growing a Good Community:Good Neighbours make Great
Partners!
Debbie SexsmithJohn Blackwell
Growing Good Communities:Good Neighbours make Great
Partners!
Food to Celebrate
IntroductionsPartnerships and Co-op Principles
Sexsmith Farm Co-op….a biased case study.Partnerships and Benefits
Discussion and Info Sharing
Asset-based Community Development Overview (www.synergos.org/knowledge; Cunningham&Mathie, Thailand, 2002)
Based on principles of:
Appreciating and mobilizing individual and community talents, skills and assets.
Community-driven vs External Agency
It builds on:
Appreciative InquirySocial Capital
Participatory ApproachesCommunity Economic Development
Strengthening Civil Society
Process of self-mobilizing and organizing for change includes:
Collecting StoriesCore Group
Mapping CapacitiesCommunity Vision and Plan
Mobilizing and Linking Economic AssetsLeveraging
Our Experience-Case Study
Timeline and Values
Children’s Gardens and Plots
Benefits
1st place Sunflower stalk – 4.0 m
1st place most unusual veggie – “Nixon”
Your Partnerships