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Community Building
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, Feb 28 2008, 5:22 AM EST
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| Anonymous | Volunteer website | 0 | Apr 22 2008, 12:02 AM EDT by Anonymous | |
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Thread started: Apr 22 2008, 12:02 AM EDT
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Create a website where all the community organsiations can post their requests for volunteers with the skills, times and locations which are needed. This will make it much easier to volunteer in your local area as well as make use of any special skills that you may have.
For an example of such a website already operating, see Baltimore's Volunteer Central (http://www.volunteercentral.net/). For an example of the benefits that volunteering brings, see the speach by Dave Eggers about his program for local community members to help tutor school kids in reading and writing (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/233). One pre-condition I would say though to such a website being successful though is setting it up in a way that is very easy and inviting to use. Perhaps Google Australia or the companies that run job-finding websites can help out here. |
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| Anonymous | Force more people to volunteer for things | 3 | Mar 18 2008, 3:52 PM EDT by Andy38 | |
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Thread started: Mar 7 2008, 9:19 AM EST
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Not enough people volunteer to help out in their local communities. The government should force everybody to volunteer at least 5 hours a week to some local community group. It would have lots of benefits. People would feel less socially isolated. Communities would get lot of things done for free. Everybody wins. Come on people what are we waiting for?
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| Anonymous | Support civil society - end big government | 1 | Mar 6 2008, 4:28 AM EST by Anonymous | |
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Thread started: Feb 28 2008, 6:15 AM EST
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As the government gets bigger it suck more money out of communities and erodes voluntary co-operative action and replaces it with beauracrats and red tape. As the government has gotten bigger over the years local community groups have been displaced by government agencies. The government should stop trying to run everything.
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| Joseph.F | What Communities do | 0 | Feb 28 2008, 6:50 AM EST by Joseph.F | |
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Thread started: Feb 28 2008, 6:50 AM EST
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Agree that 'community building' is what communities do but it is also true that government and economic policies and practices influence a community's ability to build capacity, establish and maintain ties between members, look after the long term wellbeing of its individuals. All the issue categories are important and they also all have a community dimension which is so often forgotten and overlooked when making policy - I really believe we need to make sure that any 'big ideas' think about the 'community' dimension.
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