For practitioners of community development, as in any field, joining a network of like-minded professionals is important for building skills and becoming aware of opportunities and resources.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.
Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.
I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.
Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.
It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.
A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.
Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.
We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development.
You can't build any kind of organization if you're not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.
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