Seoul Without a doubt this is all backwards. I’m giving one of the keynote addresses to the International Seoul Welfare Forum 2012 about the ways that the City of Seoul could reorganize its welfare delivery system through its “community welfare centers” so that 20% of the operation is founded on “community organization” methodology. We had …
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No News, No Power, No Way
New Orleans This is the way pre-industrial societies and social networks operate. Somehow I opened in the darkness with the generator roaring, doors flung wide open, and by the light of a flashlight at 630 AM telling folks at Fair Grinds Coffeehouse that I had lots of choices. I had “hot coffee” and I had “hot …
Serving a Community in the Shadow of a Hurricane
New Orleans It’s a Tuesday, but the City of New Orleans is shutdown. I drove down Esplanade Avenue to Fair Grinds Coffeehouse this morning at 5:30 AM through dark and deserted streets. The donut place on the corner of Broad Street had been hopping with a dozen pickup trucks and cabs at that time on Monday morning …