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