asset based community development

Matt is joined this week by a familiar voice, Kristopher Swanson, who shares a Neighboring Tip- Check in With Your Neighbor! Covid times get lonely and kinda crazy so let's check in with our neighbors so that we can all come through this pandemic together.  For more neighboring tips, go to our blog at www.neighboringmovement.org/blog.

Matt and Adam explore the nuances of the word "relationship" with our neighbors. They discuss three elements of the neighbor relationship: Gifts, Dependability, & Safety as well as the transformation that occurs when we can communicate with our neighbors.

Quotable Moment: "...It takes the pressure off. You don't have to be best friends with all of your neighbors and you can still have good, healthy neighbor relationships."

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This week we are highlighting 16 episodes of The Neighbor Next Door podcast that give you the best overview of the Neighboring Movement. If you are new to neighboring, this is a great way to get your feet wet. Click HERE to be taken to our Spotify Playlist.

Episodes Include: Rhonda Stevens "Kick-starting Neighboring"; Finding Abundance; The Power of Relationships; Joy: A Key Ingredient of Neighboring; Justin Moore: Neighboring for Health; Joy Lenz: Transformative Neighboring; Building Social Capital, Block by Block; Social Fabric: Becoming a Tight-Knit Neighborhood; And More...

We will be back with new episodes in a few weeks! Until then, enjoy revisiting the key ingredients of what makes a great Neighbor Soup! 

We are joined again this week by Riccardo Harris to continue our conversation about racism and how it relates to economic opportunities.

Quotable Moment: "Let's begin to look at different ways in which we can build up the community."- Riccardo Harris

To learn more about Riccardo, visit our website at https://neighboringmovement.org/riccardo. If you missed Part 1 of this conversation with Riccardo, click HERE to listen.

This week we are joined by Riccardo Harris, one of our Neighboring Movement staff, a pastor, a teacher and he talks to us today about the importance of having discussions about racism as well as his experience of racism in the education system in America.

Quotable Moment this week: "Being uncomfortable is part of this... and recognize that we may not solve this in this session and that's ok. This is the beginning of a dialogue."- Riccardo Harris

To learn more about Riccardo and check out a couple of his videos, visit our website at https://neighboringmovement.org/riccardo.

This week Matt and Adam are joined by Justin Hancock who shares "the inciting incident" into The Julian Way and what we can take away from that incident. 

The Julian Way is an organization focused education and empowerment with, for, and by, persons of diverse embodiments. They seek to help places of faith, and other cultural institutions, achieve greater universal accessibility, by fostering environments where persons of all embodiments can work for leadership and equity throughout the whole of human life together. 

Quotable Moment: "What The Julian Way is trying to do on a daily basis is invite curiosity around the disability experience- and what I mean by curiosity is the ability to admit we don't know everything, to move forward and honestly ask questions and engage- and do so with a spirit of charity and without fear."

To learn more or donate, go to  https://neighboringmovement.org/the-julian-way

Guest Speaker: Allie Utley from Allen County, KS

Allie has worked across the state since 2018 as the Executive Assistant to the CEO at Thrive Allen County, the largest and most prominent rural health advocacy organization in Kansas. Outside of Thrive, Allie is the Secretary of the Kansas Young Democrats, a Young Kansans for Barbara Bollier co-chair, a columnist at the Iola Register, and a tennis instructor. 

Guest Speaker: Rev. Jeff Prothro from De Soto, KS

"I am  a lifelong Kansan who has served as pastor in United Methodist Churches since 2008. I was appointed to De Soto UMC in 2014 and have been blessed to serve in this community. I am married to Leighann and we have two fantastic children. I am a graduate of Southwestern College in Winfield (Go Builders!) and earned my Masters of Divinity from Wesley Theological Seminary in D.C. I enjoy reading, movies, music, trivia, running, Royals baseball and KU Basketball. I am dedicated to sharing in Christ's love to all people in words and action."

Guest Speaker: Tori Gleason from northwest KS

"Hello, friends! My name is Tori and I’ve been working in NW Kansas since 2006 as a Sports Chiropractor. I was born and raised in Dodge City and educated in the Little Apple as well as Davenport, IA. I have a passion for youth mentorship, coaching, health equality in LGBTQ+ populations, and rural healthcare leadership as I serve on our rural hospital board. I’m a Mum to a 12-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old son. I’m excited to learn from others as we elevate voices across the state to tell a story about how diverse and wonderful the people really are."

The Kansas Animator Network video is COMING SOON!