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Design
Project: Help Us Create a Crowdsourced Picture Show About Your Favorite Building in Your Neighborhood
Calling all photographers—amateur or professional. Most of us live in cities, and cities are full of buildings. They provide shelter; places to...
Cities
New Blood, Old Blood: Who Left and Who Stayed in New Orleans?
In the past five years, New Orleans has seen a massive demographic shuffle. Many people left, some came back, and other people arrived for the...
Cities
New Orleans: Neighborhood Guide
GOOD's Guide to NOLA Basics originally appeared in GOOD Magazine's New Orleans Issue. Read more from the magazine here. A. Algiers One of...
The Community Board
Detroit SERVATHON - September 23rd
The Detroit SERVATHON creates impact and influence when community comes together. A Southeastern Michigan annual event, that encourages,...
GOOD Blog
SnapGoods: Local Lending Among Friends
Chances are you have camping equipment, kitchen appliances, and lots other stuff that just sits in your closet gathering dust for most of the...
Design
How To: Crowdsource Your Supper
One of the biggest reasons cited for not eating healthy? Time, as in, not enough of it. At the end of a long day, who has the energy to shop or...
Culture
NeighborGoods Goes National
Last fall we wrote about the launch of NeighborGoods, the Craigslist-and-Freecycle-inspired Los Angeles-based sharing network launched by Micki...
Design
How To: Build a Better Block
Unhappy with what's going on in your neighborhood? If you're like most people, you might attend a meeting at your local Chamber of Commerce or...
Cities
On the Potential Glory of 20-minute Neighborhoods
Grist just linked to a Fast Company interview with Portland, Oregon Mayor Sam Adams. The money quote has to do with his vision of a city with...
Cities
How To: 10 Ideas to Blow Up Your Block Party
Summertime is just around the bend and you know what that means? Block party! If you live in Youngstown, Ohio, or the San Fernando Valley, no...
Design
Nine Ghost Towns of the Recession
Oobject examines nine ghost towns of the global recession with a great photo set. From Tampa to Dublin to Alicante and Dubai empty condos and...
Cities
Making Connections with Boston's Virtual Street Corners
Remember those neat speaking tubes you used to use with your friends to bridge the distance of the playground? Over in Boston, digital media...
Culture
Neighborly Reports to Better Your Block
Want to start a community project aimed at local government transparency and bettering your block? EveryBlock, a site that culls ultralocal news...
Culture
Six Tips to Become a Craft Show Superstar
In an age where consumers have become as comfortable with e-commerce as they have with e-mail, the prospect of maintaining a presence in the...
Education
Seven Tips to Launch an After School Tutoring Program
Want to help close the achievement gap in your community? Starting an after school tutoring program is a surefire way to ensure your local kids...
The Community Board
Positive Psychology and GOOD Neighbors
I introduced my Master of Applied Positive Psychology class at UPenn to GOOD today. We were discussing "businesses as agents of world benefit" -...
News
In Praise of Staying Put
There's something very American about mobility. We like our freedom to roam, to follow opportunity, to move westward as the saying goes. We like...
GOOD Blog
Buena Vista Does Neighbor Day Right
In our Neighborhoods Issue, we boldly declared that the last Sunday in April (that's April 25 this year) should be Neighbor Day, "a national...
