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What does community mean to you? Listen as Sharon Nyree Williams shares what it means to build community and why it matters. Then check out the Greater Seattle Compact for Belonging from Civic Commons and add your name to this powerful living document: https://buff.ly/3Pfbq2k. #webelonghere #belongingcompact #community #thriving #civiccommons

Got Community? Got Community Agreements? Get a Community Agreements Audit - an intentional opportunity to examine and refine how those agreements are working.   Video Description: Michelle, a Black person with long locs on one side and a short fade on the other, wears brown glasses, and a dark blue and white button up. They are sitting in a corner of their home office with a patterned wall on one side and a calendar on the other. They are facing the camera as they speak. The text above them reads ‘I love my clients! Thank you Michelle Phillips of Liberation Strategies’ and the text below them reads ‘(Need a Community Agreement Audit? Link in bio)’ #communityagreementaudit #communityagreement #community #communitybuilding #love #support #spiritparismcintyre #clientlove #Ilovemyclients #business #success

If you have spoken to me about community, you've heard me say it takes a community to build community. It is a universal lesson Natalie reminded me of for the sixteenth day of "25 Days of Community." I am telling you what, even after ten years, there are lessons worth repeating and hers should be repeated often. Thank you, my new friend, for being part of this! 😊 Check out Natalie's blog post below. #cmgr #communitymanager #community #25DaysofCommunity

"...revolution begins with the self and in the self.” -Toni Cade Bambara This quarter, I encourage us to explore community, service, and the act of giving back. 1. What and who make up your community? 2. What is your role in that community? 3. What roles do you take outside of your community? 4. Are there any expectations or responsibilities that come with your role in and out of your community? 5. What are ways you can give back to your community? Can your role in the community leverage the ability to give back? I challenge us to explore these questions and create an action item to GIVE BACK. Let's continue to challenge for a better path for ourselves AND acknowledge where we're able to pave paths in kind. #thoughtfulthursday #community #service

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 "Highlighting the significance of community engagement in successful reentry. Our course, 'Preparing for Success after Prison,' provides strategies for integrating back into society and making meaningful connections. Share your experiences and join a network dedicated to supporting each other's journeys post-incarceration." https://lnkd.in/ggwKvC7g

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 "Highlighting the significance of community engagement in successful reentry. Our course, 'Preparing for Success after Prison,' provides strategies for integrating back into society and making meaningful connections. Share your experiences and join a network dedicated to supporting each other's journeys post-incarceration." Read more: https://lnkd.in/gB8YgQSz

This is very important legislation, but in order for it to work, it needs to look at *all* deaths in custody - this House version does, but the Senate recently amended away the most important aspects of this legislation and we need to push back by coming out strong for this hearing! As much as we may focus on homicide, there is an even greater problem of deaths by medical neglect. Although these might be classified as natural on an autopsy, they are anything but when someone is confined and denied access to lifesaving care. As the Corizon/Yes Care Texas Two Step scandal continues to generate fallout across the country (including here in Maryland), we must be ever vigilant that our state does not permit this to continue. The immediate cost to the lives of Marylanders is too high, and as the state becomes responsible for these bills as Corizon dissolves, the long-term cost to our general fund could be immeasurably high. Every Maryland taxpayer should be concerned about this issue!

Our Foundation serves as the bedrock of our belief system. It represents our core behaviors and links to our everyday conduct and actions. These principles are fundamental concepts in how we approach business. #mayfieldresidential #propertymanagement #multifamilymanagement #community #equalopportunityemployer

BEEN ADVOCATES I know that this is a professional platform for very professional people. It can seem that we are so busy with our employment or business tasks that we forget that we belong to a community of people. Most of the time, we wake up, head straight to work, work whole day, come back home and sleep. And the circle continues. How many of us take time out to be advocates in our own communities? Good morals and values are slowly decaying because everyone is so busy trying to make money. Are you taking time to discipline your children? Or you continue on with life using foul language even when you have a child in your presence! Find time to advocate good morals and values. Suggest a community clean-up, do a community notice board where you can put up information that will help the community. Life is much more fun when you have a loving community. A community that will look after each other. Just a thought to ponder upon.

Justice Informed's Head of Impact, Anna Radoff, is moving to Colorado! The Justice Informed team is beyond excited for her new journey, and glad to report that Anna will continue to serve as Justice Informed's Head of Impact from her new home. Before she moves, here are some reflections from Anna on what it means to do community work across different cities: "Moving brings with it a barrage of feelings and questions: grief at leaving this city I’ve called home for a decade, excitement to explore a new adventure (and mountains!), and uncertainty at the reality of engaging in social justice work remotely—so much of which relies on the principles of being in community with people. Growing up in the Bay Area, I was raised on the Saul Alinsky model of community organizing. Over dinner, we discussed why Dolores Huerta was successful. We went to hear Angela Davis speak in Oakland. We knocked on doors and talked to our neighbors about having a stop sign put in. When I moved from the Bay Area to Chicago, I saw how other transplants struggled to navigate the city’s tribalism and unbridled pride. Frameworks of impactful change work require first learning and listening. Much of my time was spent reflecting and meeting people at community meetings in church basements from Austin to Roseland to Uptown. It is those relationships that rooted me in Chicago. It is that power of community that leads to action. The thought of moving to Denver is daunting: to learn another landscape, to take time to let my roots grow deep. There are tools and technologies to engage virtually, but is it the same? Can you still say you are from somewhere if you are no longer there? How do you stay rooted while uprooting to be somewhere else? While I may not be able to answer all of these questions right now, I am hopeful that an opportunity to engage in another city's practices of community care and organizing will teach me something new about both Denver and Chicago."