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Gathering Places Project Request for Proposals: Due April 15
Breaking News: Pomegranate Center and Tully’s Coffee Partner on Gathering Places Project
Have you ever thought about creating a gathering place in your neighborhood? Now may be your chance!
Pomegranate Center and Tully’s Coffee are joining forces to ignite a movement to create handcrafted, community gathering places.
Starting in the greater Seattle area, we are embarking on an RFP (Request for Proposals) process to find communities in greatest need of public gathering spaces.
Three selected communities will receive a service and materials grant to plan, design and build a neighborhood gathering place in 2011.
Start thinking about your projects right away – proposals are due April 15, 2011!
Learn more and get the RFP and application.
Questions? Contact Katya: 425-557-6412 or katya@pomegranate.org
From anger to insight: A discussion with Pomegranate Center
Please join us on Wednesday, 2/23, 6pm, for a conversation about extreme rhetoric in community conversations and what we can do to make these conversations more collaborative and productive.
In recent weeks, we have seen more and more news stories focus on the political rancor and incivility that have become so prevalent in our society. Many national and local conversations exhibit unwillingness to collaborate and problem solve, resulting in the polarization of special interest groups.
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Community Hokey Pokey
A Message from Milenko
Every time I pick up my luggage at the airport I need to fight the hoards of people crowding around the baggage carousel in the belief that it will expedite their departure. In fact, it slows everyone down.
The appropriate hokey pokey would be to “put your right foot back and then your left foot back,â€? creating open space and visibility. This would allow us all to pick up our luggage in a peaceful manner. The problem is that this kind of “community-minded” hokey pokey is counterintuitive for most people.
I see similar behavior at community meetings. We promote our agendas and, when pushed back by others with their own agendas, we simply make our point louder, prompting a corresponding volume increase in others. Trained by the squeaky wheel theory, we’re convinced that turning up the volume increases our chances of triumph. More »
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