#community connection

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It's that time! After a two-year hiatus, CommuniTea Book Club is back and signups are open NOW!

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CommuniTea Book Club

Welcome back, CommuniTea Book Club! After a two-year hiatus, our super popular online book club is starting back up again with some improvem

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i thoroughly enjoy media without strict moral dictation. i hate preaching, almost sermonic media. i find it far more beautiful when the media lets you make up your own meaning, it adds to the discourse of the piece and you can have deeper discussions with people over whatever issue it discussed.

[gothicmagpie]

Questions to ask yourself

Is the primary goal of the work you do to help people get ahead or to help them get together?

How do you connect people to others in the same situation?

How do you nurture and develop leadership skills in the people you serve?

How do you ensure that they represent themselves in the agency and other levels of decision-making that affect their lives?

Do you provide them not only with information related to their own needs, but also with information on how the larger social/political/economic system works to their disadvantage?

Do you create situations in which they can experience their personal power, their connection to others, and their ability to work together for change?

Do you help people understand and feel connected to the ongoing history of people’s struggles to challenge violence, exploitation, and injustice?

-from “Social Service or Social Change?” by Paul Kivel, as published in The Revolution Will Not Be Funded

[undormiel]

I’ve got some really unhappy thoughts about being nonbinary and I would love if there’s another enby out there who is willing to listen to some things that aren’t nice to hear, but that I need to work through.

[jtwb768-babbles]

Where Everybody Connects: How Together on 2nd Is Building Community in Davenport

Where Everybody Connects: How Together on 2nd Is Building Community in Davenport

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From Broadcast to Belonging:

Creating Events That Grow Audiences and Build Community For many nonprofit organizations, events are one of the most visible ways we connect with our communities. They create opportunities to share our mission, celebrate impact, raise awareness, and bring people together around a common purpose. But in a world where people are constantly being invited to attend another webinar, fundraiser,…

From Broadcast to Belonging:

[burning-beneath]

When the Sand Keeps Slipping

There comes a moment when exhaustion speaks louder than hope. Not the kind of tired that sleep can fix, but a deeper fatigue, the kind that settles quietly inside after chasing something for far too long. After reaching forward again and again, only to feel the same thing happen every time. Like holding sand in the palm of my hand. No matter how tightly my fingers close around it, the grains…

When the Sand Keeps Slipping