Community

Communities of Heart: Conditions and Criteria
What can we learn about the nature of a vital community – a community of heart? Such a community is needed today in a world filled with many challenges and stuck in polarization and tribalism.

Mapping Effective Covid-19 Engagement: Four Responses to the Challenge
At times we must bring together wisdom, courage and vision—so that we might move forward personally and collectively under the guidance of a coherent and integrated map of virus-engagement.

Community Capital: Its Sources and Functions in Communities of Heart
The expansion of community capital is a means of sustained community renewal. Community capital incorporates three elements that are found …

de Tocqueville and the Communities of Heart
During the formative years of North American democracy (1830s), an observant historian from France, Alexander de Tocqueville, wrote about “Habits of the Health” that exemplified the best of North American communities.