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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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11 Reasons Why House Sharing Works

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 [...]

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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 | [...]

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Social problems are opportunities to use entrepreneurial principles and community assets to release the potential for collaborations that cross traditional boundaries

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How I kept third and fourth graders quiet

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 [...]

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A Tale of Two Mothers and Their Children

Given a mother’s immense influence, with lifelong consequences for children and society, nurturing these families should be Job One.

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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 [...]

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NCV Focus on Housing

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 [...]

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What is Sound ConneXions?

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.

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The Compelling Imperative of This Crisis

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 [...]

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