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The Neighbourhood Academy is the space that Pécs Community Foundation, serving the city of Pécs in Hungary, created to bring people and organisations in the community together and foster conversations. In the past couple of years, the Academy gathered especially older people who wanted to explore, along with others, how they are living the community life, what their roles could be and how to foster intergenerational dialogue and fight isolation. Do you want to know more? Check out this and many other stories from the #communityfoundations field in our publication, “Engagement and participation. What, who and how. A guide for community foundations” available here https://lnkd.in/enVahC4W

May is #CommunityActionMonth and 2024 marks 60 years of Community Action. #CommunityAction60 #60yearsstrong This is The Promise of Community Action:

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Check out this new report. The Virginia Community Engagement Index (VCEI) is a "first-of-its-kind study to understand the state of service, volunteerism, and civic action in Virginia."

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It's here! The Virginia Community Engagement Index (VCEI) has officially launched and is now available for you to read in order to: 1. Identify what Virginians believe to be the pressing challenges facing our communities. 2. Assess where Virginians think action should be taken — and the degree to which they take action to address these challenges. 3. Understand what motivates Virginians to get involved and stay involved. The VCEI affords us an opportunity to rally together from a place of collective knowledge and understanding, sharing data that organizations and individuals across the Commonwealth can use to further their daily work and service. Learn more and explore the full VCEI report at https://buff.ly/3ZydeaP Many thanks to our partners and VCEI coalition members who made this work possible! #ServeVirginia #VirginiaVolunteers #VolunteerVA #GivebackVA #VACommunity #VolunteerinVA #VCEI

Very interesting and helpful. We have experienced similar observations working in informal neighborhoods in Namibia. It is indeed incredible, what building relationships with communities does for the development of neighborhoods. An additional observation from our side is that our communities are fluid; always new people coming in, and older residents moving out of the neighborhoods. This challenges the notion of cohesion, ownership and relationships in a complex manner, it also requires a more adaptive, and active engagement. Community engagement should be both consistent and constant simultaneously.

I developed the phrase Sovereignty Before Solidarity long ago because I could easily spot how superficial many allyship practices, and even solidarity and multi-identity coalition-building movements were. These movements were negotiated by very specific touch points, where individuals were assigned to negotiate between communities, without much actual trust. As an analogy, where these communities should have intersected like a zipper, it appeared more like diamonds with their tips meeting. The idea was for folks to develop the power in their spaces, and when the time was right to come to the table as equals to discuss communal needs, find common ground, and advocate for needs each other's unique needs that weren't of the common interest. But in the meantime, there would be a heightened degree of communal self-reliance, and success would hopefully begin to be shared and replicated across communities in order to achieve the critical mass we needed for systemic change, common purpose. The zipper would start forming. But now as inter-communal bonds are rupturing, we are regressing back to the divisive cultural battles that everyone loves to hate. Welcome to the era of irritation.