My recent trip to Canada held one major surprise and the image, vivid after more than two weeks, of a kid in a red shirt. I returned from a meeting-packed three days in Winnipeg, where I keynoted two conferences (one at Winnipeg University’s “Thinkers’ Conference”), participated in panels, shared thoughts with people working with at […]
Hurricane McCarter Creates Villages: Community Renewal International
“This is like a double ray of sunshine. Now I can walk to the bus on streets I would not walk on before.” – Reola Cormbe, resident “When we first got here, the kids were talking about drive-by shootings, gangs and drugs. And now we’ve gone from fear to quiet. Now we feel safe enough […]
Pain Must Not Be Wasted
I met Gerda Weissmann Klein at the White House Conference on Teenagers in May 2000. We sat next to each other in an afternoon breakout session on the Youth as Resources program. We spoke briefly about how we happened to be at this conference where we spoke of the human spirit and of our shared […]
Finding a Rallying Point for Community Change
Crime prevention is among the most exciting tools of the new millennium for building and sustaining communities in which people can safely live, work, learn, and play. It motivates, bonds, and mobilizes people around a shared goal. It also builds community. Crime prevention includes the basics of personal safety- locks, lights, alarms, and the like. […]
