Inspring Communities Newsletter #46 – March 2015
In this issue, we share three diverse examples of creatively engaging communities to encourage and inspire local voice, participation and contribution.
Inspiring Communities Newsletter #44 – December 2014
To cap off a busy year, our December newsletter tells how two West Coast communities, Ross and Kumara, are mining community gold, together.
There are also reviews of recent seminars by Margaret Wheatley and Jim Diers
Inspiring Communities Newsletter #43 – November 2014
News items including; The Z Nail Gang; Neighbourly; Finding hidden treasures in Nelson and Inspiring Communities Plans.
Inspiring Communities Newsletter #42 October 2014
The role of local communities in co-creating positive wellbeing is a powerful global trend. IBM has predicted that in five years, “local will beat online,” Forbes Magazine reported that the #1 hottest food trend in 2014 would be “locally sourced everything.”
The ‘local’ trend was highlighted at the international Community Development conference held in Glasgow in June 2014 under the theme “Community is the Answer.” 15 kiwis participated in, and contributed to this conference.
This newsletter shares some of the powerful stories from the conference. There is much inspirational material in this newsletter, including details of an advanced ‘Community Building’ Auckland workshop by Jim Diers (21/22 October) and a one day Wellington seminar with Margaret Wheatley on ‘Community is the Answer’ (21 November). Enjoy!
Inspiring Communities Newsletter #41 July 2014
With the mid-winter Matariki stars now above us, many Kiwi communities are coming together to celebrate and plan for the year ahead.
“Strengthening Neighbourhoods” is a key focus for Inspiring Communities and in this ‘neighbourhood focused’ issue we bring you inspiring community success stories from Southland and Masterton.
Huge thanks to our local story tellers Gerry and Sandy!
Our next issue will have an ‘international’ focus – with recent Kiwi delegates to the IACD conference in Glasgow sharing their presentations and learning.
Enjoy the stars and please note the dates for Neighbours Day 2015 – March 28-29!
Auckland IC Newsletter July 2014
This Carl Sandburgh quote, painted by Peter Tunney in 2005, is the inspiration for this newsletter. Winteris a great time for reflecting on what’s working well and thinking about where there might be
opportunities for change and action.
Auckland May 2014 Auckland Newsletter
We have had a really enjoyable start to the year with some fantastic locally-grown events such as the Crowd-Grown Feast, Weed-dating, Neighbours Day and many more. It seems that the city is full of innovative and creative locally-led enterprise and so this newsletter celebrates a few of those.
May 2014 Auckland Newsletter
March 2014 Auckland Newsletter
Already there is a huge amount going with regard to locally led change and it is really fascinating tosee just how much working in this way is about different strokes for different folks. So this issue
celebrates some of the many different ways people are creating connecting spaces. Two of the
articles are very obviously place-based – they are located in a particular suburb or site for example –
while the other two are, being more about creating and serving common interests, more space- than
place-based perhaps.
Inspiring Communities Newsletter 38 – September 2013
As we focus on our country’s determined participation in the America’s Cup, it’s wellworth reflecting on what enables our tiny nation to excel on the world stage.
Inspiring Communities Newsletter 37 – July 2013
Over time, our national participation rates in elections are declining, with under 50% of eligible citizensbothering to exercise this most basic right of citizenship in the 2010 local body elections.