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Building Community through Composting
Neighbors in the Cascade Community are working together to create a composting system that will collect and process food waste through community participation. This will be a carbon-neutral program composed of community volunteers, large composters, solar panels and bicycles to generate healthy, nutrient-rich soil.This project allows the Cascade community t ...learn more
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Created: Nov 16, 2007
Updated: Nov 01, 2009
Membership: Open
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Community Training
Community TrainingCommunity training is the practice of teaching, imparting knowledge, and providing vocational skills instruction to members of the community to empower them to more effectively participate in or to run community activities. Community training can include instruction on how to form a community group, how to manage community group meetings, and how to organize community members to work collectively to achieve benefits for the community. |
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Links and Resources Community Tool Box The Tool Box provides over 6,000 pages of practical skill-building information on over 250 different topics. COMM-ORG: The Online Conference on Community Organizing and Development Its mission is to link academics and activists, and theory and practice, toward the goal of improving community organizing and its related crafts.  Community Energy Workbook Drawing on the experiences of citizens around the country, the Community Energy Workbook outlines a comprehensive, step-by-step process for achieving sustainable, community-wide energy savings. |
Keywords
workshops, classes, forums, conferences, capacity building, leadership training, human capital, mentoring, facilitating community action, skills building, information sharing, empowerment, indigenous teaching, traditional teaching, IT, computers, information and computer technology, ICT, lifelong learning
