Our staff and partners highlight acts of courageous leadership, and opportunities for you and your community to engage in creating a vital shared future.
When Juanita Brown (co-founder of the World Café and graduate of my alma mater Antioch College) shared an invitation from John Esterle of the Whitman Institute to join a gathering of grantees and funders who focus on process and relationship-building in their work, InCommons Manager Jake Voit and I jumped at t ... more
Last month I suggested to my parents (both in their 80s) and my husband that we take a road trip to Montevideo, MN to check out the Minneapolis College of Art and Design’s (MCAD) Rural Arts Initiative and combine it with a “roots” trip to nearby Appleton, home of my great great grandparents, August and Sophia Buchholz. ... more
Tucked on the western slope of the Appalachian Mountains is picturesque Jonesborough, Tennessee - the oldest town in the state and in 1784 the seat of power for the State of Franklin. It is also home of the International Storytelling Center (ISC), a magnificent complex that hosts a renowned annual storytelling festival in tents and plazas in the heart of the historic town.... more
There is something special happening in western Minnesota, where row crops of corn and soybeans give way to the Minnesota River Valley. The land is populated with artists, farmers, native people and immigrants, business owners and supporters who have a sense of place and a connection to their land and community that is powerful and contagious.... more
