The Abundant Community
Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods

It is a life that becomes possible when we join our neighbors in creating a community that nurtures our family and makes us useful citizens. This book looks at how this situation came about, what maintains it, and the crippling effect it has had on our families, our communities, and our environment.

McKnight and Block suggest how to nurture voluntary, self-organizing structures that will reveal these gifts and allow them to be shared to the greatest mutual benefit. They recommend roles we can assume and actions we can take to reweave the social fabric that has been unraveled by consumerism and its belief that however much we have, it is not enough. Each neighborhood has people with the gifts and talents needed to provide for our prosperity and peace of mind this book offers practical ways to discover them. It gives voice to the ideal of an abundant community. It reminds us of our power to create a hope-filled life. It assures us that when we join together with our neighbors, we are the architects of the future where we want to live.