I’ve looked and looked. Maybe it’s out there and I just haven’t seen it. Where is the short term housing that we desperately need? The safe, affordable, possibly short term, housing that gives people a breather. The number of people standing at the precipice of homelessness, and falling into it, numbs my mind! A lot [...]
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Does the economic collapse have within it the seeds of social change that will set us on a path to a more stable society? Just as the seeds of certain pine trees are released only by the heat of a forest fire, this collapse is forcing many to consider alternatives they would not have considered [...]
Home owner workshop: lower your bills and learn about city life solutions
Posted in Blog, Events Calendar, Housing Resources - local on Jul 16th, 2010
Learn how to lower your costs for utilities, mortgage payments, transportation, and food. Co-presented with CUB, I-Go Car Sharing & Growing Home · Citizens Utility Board · I-Go Car Sharing · Growing Home DATE: Wednesday, July 28 TIME: 5:45PM to 7:45PM LOCATION: Illinois Action for Children | 1340 S. Damen | [...]
Sound ConneXions Chicago Forum – small but mighty
Posted in Blog on Jul 2nd, 2010
Social problems are opportunities to use entrepreneurial principles and community assets to release the potential for collaborations that cross traditional boundaries
How I kept third and fourth graders quiet
Posted in Blog on Jul 1st, 2010
I don’t know anything about children. I often feel incompetent and that I miss the point. As one of the youngest in my family, I wasn’t around younger children until I started baby sitting as a teenager, the first job I ever hated. Failing as a 13-year-old, assigned to keep the third and fourth graders [...]
A Tale of Two Mothers and Their Children
Posted in Blog on Jun 25th, 2010
Given a mother’s immense influence, with lifelong consequences for children and society, nurturing these families should be Job One.
When Janet’s marriage ended in divorce, her Nebraska house sold quickly, requiring that she relocate with two very young children within two weeks. She wisely turned to her friend, Kay, whose marriage had also recently ended. Janet and the children moved in with Kay and her four children and they both considered their options. Tax [...]
NCV Focus on Housing
Posted in Blog on Jun 11th, 2010
Everywhere I look, a family or an individual seems to be falling through the cracks, so I usually write about whatever tugs at my heart. My recent alignment with Sound ConneXions, and Sound ConneXions Chicago, whose goal is to support social entrepreneurs engaging in social innovation, gives me the courage to take on a project [...]
What is Sound ConneXions?
Posted in Blog on Jun 11th, 2010
Sound ConneXions’ mission is to create work that supports life and empowers communities through social innovation and collaboration between organizations and communities.
Sound ConneXions vision is to support the design, creation and cultivation of scalable and sustaining social innovations that empower communities and provide financial, social and ecological benefits.
The Compelling Imperative of This Crisis
Posted in Blog on Jun 5th, 2010
What isn’t up for grabs? The environment, the economy, Congress, every state in the nation, the Gulf of Mexico, the Middle East, big corporations, small businesses, and the Catholic church, a 2,000 year-old institution, are all in the throes of wrenching change. Do you long for a shred of stability? Don’t turn blue holding your [...]