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Originally published on the Greater Vancouver Food Bank website: https://www.foodbank.bc.ca/news/the-importance-of-community/ What is Asset Based Community Development (ABCD)? This was a question that we first came across in March 2014 on meeting the team at Building Caring Communities. It sparked the beginning of a new …
Contributed by: Brooke Oxley (Community Connector, Building Caring Communities and Project Coordinator, Can You Dig It) When I first started working for Building Caring Communities, I kept hearing about this incredible author – Ella Manski – and every reference to …
One of Building Caring Communities’ objectives is to aid local organizations and clubs in building more welcoming spaces in community, so when a connector from BCC joined the local Rotary Club, it was a perfect fit! The Rotary Club members …
Want to learn and practice how to draw out assets, talents, passions and skills? Share tools people are using? Create meaningful conversations? Join people from Renfrew-Collingwood and Caring Communities in a learning activity led by Joe Erpenbeck, an instructor with …
We joke, “How are you doing so much shopping with no money?!” “I thrift.” “Ohhh, like consignment stores?” “No, Laura. I thrift everywhere.” That’s something I really like about connecting with Lena, she gets things sorted, and adjusts until everything …
I’m sitting opposite Bryan, black and white chess pieces scattered across the table between us. Alan, the organizer of the club, unrolls a chess mat with a quick flick of his wrist and hands it to me. A ‘casual club’ …