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Community Building

The Foundation for Community Encouragement (FCE)

"FCE is a non-profit educational foundation, founded in 1984 by Dr. M. Scott Peck and others, to teach the principles of community to individuals and organizations."

The FCE has passed on the work of Community Building to its constituents, but the site is still there. Resources, history and a message board are what you'll find at this original CB website. Highly recommended.

FCE workshop materials are available for download here.
 

Le MEC

Mouvement vers l'Esprit Communautaire (Movement Towards Community Spirit). Community Building group based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Visit the new, updated LeMEC website at http://www.mec-quebec.webcentre.ca/index.htm, or email them at mec_quebec@yahoo.ca.

News about upcoming Le MEC-sponsored events, and the latest Le MEC newsletter (English translation) may be found on the Community News page.
 

Community Building Foundation, Inc.

A nonprofit, educational foundation championing Community Building technology, employing it to encourage youth to acquire tangible, life-affirming skills. Improving neighborhoods, one house at a time.

News about upcoming CBF-sponsored events may be found on the Community News page.
 

CBPartners@yahoogroups.com

" Partners in Community Building is a collection of people who have experienced or are interested in the work of Community Building as it was created by M. Scott Peck, M.D. and promoted by The Foundation for Community Encouragement. Most importantly, the listserv is a means to coordinate attendance at the next summer gathering: July 20-24 (Wednesday night through noon Sunday), 2005 at Carmelite Spiritual Center in Darien, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. This Email list provides a forum for all to share information about Community Building and/or his/her life, coordinate events related to Community Building and to provide a "container" in which participants might feel moved to tell a small piece of his/her story as it relates or doesn't relate to the discussion at hand."

More information may be found on the Yahoo Groups website, or by contacting the list administrator at CBPartners-owner@yahoogroups.com
 

fceconstituents@yahoogroups.com

"This is a members-only, confidential, on-line page where Foundation for Community Encouragement (FCE) constituents can post messages, access contact information on each other, and modify their own information. It is intended for persons who support the work of Community Building, and who have experience with the FCE modality."
 

Community Building in Britain (CBIB)

CBIB is "a network of volunteers who strive to create and support experiential situations in which the principles and methods of community building may be discovered and practiced. We also seek to participate in and foster the evolution of community building in Britain."
 

Community Building in the Netherlands

This group is involved primarily in Community Building within organizations. Contact:
Adriaan Bertens, ad.bertens@wxs.nl
Warnsveldseweg 47
7204 BB Zutphen
The Netherlands
Telephone: 31-575-512664

School Programs/Education Reform

The Association for Experiential Education

 

John Taylor Gatto

"Challenging the myths of modern schooling."
 

The Ojai Foundation

"A non-profit educational sanctuary dedicated to education, renewal, and the honoring of life's many passages."
 

The Sudbury Education Resource Network

"The Sudbury model is a set of ideas.  'Freedom', 'Democracy', 'Trust' and 'Responsibility' are at its core.  These ideas are implemented in democratically run schools where children direct their own education.  Each school that implements this model is unique, and we celebrate their vibrant diversity and commonality." 

Prison Reform

Community Transitions

"Community Transitions assists juveniles in the criminal justice system make choices for change through accountability, responsibility and self-discovery."
 

My Soul Said to Me

Bob Roberts (of Project Return) has written a new book, My Soul Said to Me. It is a memoir of the community building work he has done with prisoners and former prisoners.

Intentional Community

The Cohousing Network

 

Cohousing Resources, LLC

 

The Goodenough Community

"This urban, multi-residential, intentional learning community has been in operation for more than 30 years. We are continually gathering our learnings about encouraging human development, community-building, and developing interpersonal skills basic to a functioning democracy."
 

The Intentional Communities Website

Website serving the Intentional Community movement, including ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related projects.

Other Related Sites

The Alliance for National Renewal

"The Alliance for National Renewal is an intentional community of civic leaders and community builders who collaborate to learn and tell their stories to inspire creative problem solving, imitation, and innovation in pursuit of democratic revitalization and the renewal of civic life."
 

Beamish Process Arts

The Process Arts are ways of working, playing, and co-creating Community so that, by attending with creative imagination to all elements present, deep satisfaction and understanding are possible, and both soul and spirit may find a home.
 

Better Together

An initiative of the Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement in America at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
 

Bowling Alone

"The collapse and revival of American community."
 

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook Project

"The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, published in 1994, followed up on Peter Senge's book The Fifth Discipline. While The Fifth Discipline laid out the principles particularly applicable to long-term organizational improvement, the Fieldbook was meant to answer the question 'What should we do differently when we go to work on Monday morning?'" 
 

Human Kindness Foundation

"A non-profit organization which stresses a way of life based upon three common principles taught by the great sages of all religions: Simple living, a dedication to service, and a commitment to personal spiritual practice." Includes the Prison Ashram Project.
 

International Fellowship of Reconciliation

"The International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) is an international, spiritually-based movement composed of people who, from the basis of a belief in the power of love and truth to create justice and restore community, commit themselves to active nonviolence as a way of life and as a means of transformation-personal, social, economic and political."
FOR-USA    FOR-England
 

Ontario Council for International Cooperation

"The Ontario Council for International Cooperation (OCIC) is a membership association of Ontario-based, not-for-profit, voluntary organizations and individual Associates working both in the North and South for global justice."
 

Our Mother Earth

"Fostering authentic community among all beings." The purpose of the Our Mother Earth Foundation is "to buy back land in the central part of North America, restore it to its natural state, and thus create sacred space that all beings can visit."
 

Sacred Ways -- NEW

"Dedicated to promoting growth and healing through traditional Native American teachings and ceremonies."
 

The Society for Organizational Learning

"The purpose of SOL is to discover, integrate and implement theories and practices for the interdependent development of people and their institutions."
 

Tamarack -- An Institute for Community Engagement

"Tamarack is a charitable organization dedicated to helping Canadian communities take ownership of local issues by making use of proven strategies for community engagement. Community Engagement is commonly defined as citizens from different sectors of a community joining together taking leadership, to address issues that affect them all."
 

The Thread Project

"Some say our world is hanging by a thread. I say a thread is all we need." -- Terry Helwig, Founder

In essence The Thread Project: One World, One Cloth is about weaving a cloth of humanity. The predominate focus is to gather individual threads from around the world and weave them into a World Cloth entitled Hope Materializing. Thousands of people, representing more than forty countries, have already sent or tied on a thread to make this cloth one of the most diverse cloths ever woven. Each World Cloth is meant to be a compelling symbol of unity amidst our diversity.
 

To the Desert and Back

The inside story of one of the most dramatic business transformations on record. This book includes lots of material about community building in Unilever including FCE's workshop in the Ardennes.
 

Unity Circle

Networking peacemakers and building spiritual community in Minnesota and the world.