Community Building Institute Launch Party
Monday, 03/28/2016 – 06:30 pm – 09:00 pm
Center for Social Change
2103 Coral Way, Floor 2,
Miami, Florida 33145
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Cost: Free

Please join The Center for Social Change on Monday, March 28th, for a cocktail reception as we launch the Community Building Institute!

Special guest speaker, author and ABCD Institute Co-Founder, John McKnight.

As a result of a national study of local neighborhood initiatives, John McKnight and his long-time colleague, Jody Kretzmann, created the Asset-Based Community Development strategy for community building. Together, they co-authored the basic guide to asset based community development, Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Identifying and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets. This book has become one of the nation’s best-selling guides to community development, and the methods it outlines are now utilized world-wide.
McKnight has also written three additional books – The Careless Society: Community and its Counterfeits and, together with co-author Peter Block, The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods. His latest publication, An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture, was co-authored by Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann and John McKnight.

“Inspirational and practical … a grounded call to compassion and justice.”
— Parker Palmer

McKnight has been active with many civil organizations. He co-founded the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, a unique health policy organization in Chicago. He also co-founded the Gamaliel Foundation, a national organization training neighborhood organizers. One of his trainees at the foundation was President Barack Obama. He is also a founding board member of National People’s Action, a nationwide organization of activist civic groups.