PlanH has released a new action guide for local governments, entitled “Local Government Action Guide: Social Connectedness.” Alongside it, in collaboration with BC Health Communities’ and Building Resilient Neighbourhoods’ Stacy…
The Civic and Community Engagement Institute at the University of San Francisco has been engaged in specific neighborhoods to help them identify and address community-defined issues during the difficult economic…
In the fall of 2014, a group of people in Victoria, Canada who shared both an interest in their neighbourhood and a quirky sense of humour were brought together to…
The New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance is a network of policymakers, public and private sector practitioners, academics, and nongovernmental and business leaders organized to build climate change preparedness capacity in…
At Building Resilient Neighbourhoods, we often talk about community resilience as a set of “muscles” we can intentionally develop that will help us pro-actively respond and adapt to different shocks…
Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block explores the ways communities can transform fragmentation, and six kinds of conversations that can create communal accountability and commitment. Block also describes…