Initiatives

COMMON GOOD COLLECTIVE

The Collective provides change leaders with the means to learn and work with one another to design, implement and sustain neighborhood, systemic and spiritual transformation.

This means illuminating an alternative to the modern world which is designed to disconnect us economically and personally from our community, from others, and from our faith. We believe change agents, social innovators, business leaders, faith leaders, and community activists confront key challenges in their efforts to introduce system change. Often working alone, they frequently experience doubt and confusion in the face of resistance, and surprise when their hard-won beliefs about change no longer work in practice.

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DESIGNED LEARNING

This is really about having influence without control and developing the skills to get your expertise used. We invite you to create sustained behavior change and superior organization results with our integrated approach to learning. Through the Integrated Learning process, we lead your team through a series of experiences that begins before they enter the workshop and continues long after their workshop experience ends.

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ABUNDANT COMMUNITY

Our consumer society constantly tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We outsource our health care, childcare, recreation, safety and satisfaction. We are trained to become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block take a thoughtful look at how this situation came about, what maintains it and the crippling effect it has had on our families, our communities and our environment. We have www.AbundantCommunity.com to document how this is occurring in the real world.

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An initiative of Peter Block and friends, Restore Commons curates ways of thinking and practice towards the common good. The move to the commons is well underway. We simply want to document it. The website, restorecommons.com uses audio, video and a little text to provide access on demand to thought leaders changing our minds.

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A SMALL GROUP

There are many groups in Cincinnati who want to better it one way or another – actually more than 7,000. ASG hopes to provide the convening skills for community minded citizens to make this city a more equitable and less isolating place to live.

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Common Good Alliance is creating a Black Business District and neighborhood in Cincinnati, OH to act as an economic engine to help close the wealth gap for African Americans. This Business District will be called “Black Wall Street” in honor of its namesake that was created in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1920’s.

Common Good Alliance is a group of citizen leaders who are committed to serve the common good of Cincinnati bringing all citizens together to support a black economy.

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