<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>CDRA, Community Development Resource (agency,association) in South Africa <br><br><div>Jim Wiegel</div><div><br></div><div>One question that is helpful is, "What could we do right now that would be very scary, what of all the things on the list makes you go, 'Huh?!'" Let's do that one. Niyonu Spann</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">James F. Wiegel</span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">401 North Beverly Way, Tolleson, Arizona 85353</a></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Tel.</font><span style="font-size: 13pt; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="tel:011-623-936-8671" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" style="font-size: 13pt;">011-623-936-8671</a><span style="font-size: 13pt; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">or</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="tel:011-623-363-3277" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2/0" style="font-size: 13pt;">011-623-363-3277</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:marilyn.oyler@gmail.com" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">jfwiegel@yahoo.com</font></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">www.partnersinparticipation.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Upcoming public course opportunities:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ToP® Facilitation Methods: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">Sep 9-10</a>, <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4">Nov 18-19, 2014</a> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=48">Click to watch video</a>.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ToP® Strategic Planning: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://5" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5">Oct 7-8, 2014</a> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=50">Click to learn more</a>.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Facilitation Mastery: The Mastering the Technology of Participation program begins in Oakland on <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://6" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">Nov 12-14, 2014</a> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3mniiYCdI">Click to watch video</a>.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For online registration go to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.top-training.net/">http://www.top-training.net</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The AZ ToP® Community of Practice meets the 1st <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://8" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8">Friday, 1-4 pm</a>, starting again <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://9" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="9">on Sept 5th</a> at ACYR, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/648+N+5th+Ave/@33.456329,-112.080545,16z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x872b123a5312512d:0x93c9f71171108956?hl=">648 N. 5th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85003</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">AICP Planners: 14.5 CM for all ToP® courses</span></div></div><div><br>On Jun 29, 2014, at 7:14, Karen Snyder via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252">
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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Discerning
books on community development that have influenced my thinking, I find myself
asking what is the question behind the question when one asks for general literature
on community development.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 12pt;">In Chicago the ICA is
wrestling with what does it look like to do <u>sustainable
</u>community development (adding environmental considerations to influencing
community change). What are people discovering that is helpful
literature on ‘<i>sustainable</i> community development?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">The
following books have influenced my thinking on community development:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Diers,
Jim, <b><i>Neighbor
Power: Building community the Seattle
Way</i></b> (2004)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hopkins, Rob, <b><i>Transition Handbook: from oil dependency to local resilience</i> </b>(2008). Pioneered in Ireland/England since 2006,
transition communities are now in 43 countries and 1,130 initiatives (including
150 in the United States). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">James,
Sarah and Lahti, Torbjorn, <b><i>The
Natural Step for Communities: how cities
and towns can change to sustainable practices</i></b>, 2004. Piloted in Scandinavia, this approach has been especially effective for changing large public institutions as well as geographical communities. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Kaplan, Allan, <b><i>The
Development Practitioners Handbook</i></b> (1996) and </span><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Artists of the
Invisible – Development Practitioners and Social Practice</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> (2002). Allan is from Cape Town, South Africa. You can watch a wonder-filled presentation he
gave at Schumacher College in 2011 on “Reading the nature of process from a
process of nature” at this link: <a href="http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/reading-the-nature-of-process-from-a-process-of-nature">http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/reading-the-nature-of-process-from-a-process-of-nature</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Kretzmann,
John and McKnight, John, <i><b>Building
Communities from the Inside Out: A path
toward finding and mobilizing a community’s assets</b> </i>(1993). The community assets survey approach described
in this book launched the ABCD (Asset-Based Community Development) approach</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">*****</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">We have been telling the
people that this is the Eleventh Hour<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Now we must go back and
tell the people this is the Hour. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">And there are things to be
considered.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Where are you living? What are you doing? Are you in right relation?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Where is your water? Know your garden.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">It is time to speak your
truth. Create your community. Be good to each other.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">And do not look outside
yourself for the leader. This could be a
good time!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">There is a river flowing
very fast.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">It is so great and swift
that there are those who will be afraid.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">They will try to hold on to
the shore.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">They will feel they are
being torn apart and they will suffer greatly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial">Know the river has a destination.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">The elders say we must let
go of the shore, and push off and into the river,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Keep our eyes open, and our
head above the water.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">See who is in there with
you and Celebrate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">At this time in history, we
are to take nothing personally. Least of
all, ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">For the moment that we do,
our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">The time of the lone wolf
is over.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Gather yourselves!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Banish the word “struggle”
from your attitude and your vocabulary. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">All that you do now must be
done in a sacred manner and in celebration.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">We are the ones we have
been waiting for.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">~~ Alice Walker from <u>We are the Ones We Have
Been Waiting For</u> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></p>
<!--EndFragment-->On Jun 28, 2014, at 4:34 PM, William Schlesinger via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>I've liked Rothman's work on locality development. Parallels our historical approach and relates it to both community organizing and planning approached.</div><div><br></div><div><i><font style="color:#333333">Bill Schlesinger</font></i></div><div><i><font style="color:#333333"><a href="mailto:pvida@whc.net">pvida@whc.net</a></font></i></div></div><br><br>Frank Cookingham via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; position: static; z-index: auto;"><div><span>The best book is Bryant Myers, Walking with the Poor (revised and expanded edition), 2011, Orbis Books.</span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>John Friedmann, Empowerment: The Politics of Alternative Development, 1992, Blackwell.</span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, 1999, Oxford University Press.</span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Abhijit V. Banerjee and Ester Duflo, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, 2011, Public Affairs Books.</span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor ... And Yourself, 2009, Moody Publishers.</span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>read Easterly and Sachs at the same
time to see two very different approaches:</span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, 2006, Penguin Books.</span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Jeffrey D. Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, 2005, Penguin Books.</span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Peace, Frank Cookingham, retired evaluator of international community development</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, June 27, 2014 12:30 PM, David Dunn via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br>
</font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv7797354568">Hi all.<div><br></div><div>An old friend has asked for recommendations on: </div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">general literature on community development? I need to get out of project-think and into a more comprehensive mode. </div></blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div>Any suggestions that I should pass on.</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal;"><span style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span><span style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">David Dunn</span><br style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">740 S Alton Way 9B</span><br style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Denver, CO 80247</span><br style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">720-314-5991</span><br style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="text-transform: none; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><a href="mailto:dmdunn1@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dmdunn1@gmail.com">dmdunn1@gmail.com</a></span></span></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Dialogue mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>