Mapleview Community Hall

Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

Mohsin Hamid on the dangers of nostalgia: we need to imagine a brighter future

Make America great again. Take back control... From politics to culture, we have been gripped by a wave of nostalgia. Mohsin Hamid calls on storytellers to look ahead with hope

How Olympic Triathlete Katie Zaferes’ Tiny House Just Might Help Her Win Gold In 2020

How Olympic Triathlete Katie Zaferes’ Tiny House Just Might Help Her Win Gold In 2020<br>By Peggy Shinn | May 10, 2017, 1:39 p.m. (ET)<br>Katie and Tommy Zaferes recently moved into their tiny house, featured on the TV show "Tiny House Nation."<br>Triathlete Katie Zaferes has big Olympic goals for 2020<br>To help meet these goals, the 2016 Olympian and her husband, Tommy Zaferes, have gone tiny. Just before the 2017 triathlon season started, they moved into a tiny house — featured…

Create a Custom Splash Screen for a Windows 10 In-Place Upgrade

A while back I wrote a blog with some scripts that can be used to improve the user experience in a Windows 10 in-place upgrade. The solution included a simple splash screen that runs at the beginni…

Why Volunteering Is Good for Your Health

Think of it as a win-win: You help others and get a boost yourself.

Community Center Building Project

We Need Your Help! Stabler Foundation Matching Grant has been exceeded – THANK YOU! Help us reach the total to complete this project through your donation. Donate Online

Why Your Gym Needs to Be a Community Center

Your members need social connection. Give it to them and watch your club thrive.

How This Indigenous Community Rebuilt a Community Center No One Had Ever Seen

It’s Our Backyard Too: Building Community-Centered Support for Harm Reduction

Welcome to NHRC’s Policy and Advocacy Community Engagement Toolkit titled “It’s Our Backyard Too: Building Community-Centered Support for Harm Reduction.”

Community Organizations Work to Prevent Foreclosure

Increasingly, community organizations are getting more involved in ensuring that their citizens are able...

School to become community center

Preliminary work may soon begin to transform historic school to community center.

Catalan Delight: Vacant Community Center Finds New Life Entwined with its Past

We often harp on about how adaptive reuse of structures is a great way to save both time and resources. But there are times when you need not ‘adapt’ the

New Start Brain Injury Community Center

The New Start Brain Injury Community Center is located in Worcester and is designed to serve adults who have been impacted by a brain injury.

Why Get Involved in Community Organizations?

I know many of our clients are active in community organizations and frequently sponsor, volunteer or support not-for-profit and charitable events. Most of you do it because you want to contribute to a good cause. But, from a purely marketing and practice development viewpoint, does it make sense for you to become actively involved in these activities? Should you be sponsoring and supporting more events … or different ones?

Community organizations to build parent partnership in early childhood education

RICHLAND, Wash. – A handful of community organizations developed at powerful partnership to help engage parents and ensure that regardless of income they can access high-quality early earning resources for their kids from birth to five years old.This colla

When Social Services Undermine Well-being

The intertwined challenges that many people face might be addressed more effectively together than separately.

Three Ways to Build Support for Community-Centered Climate Planning

Uncovering JAPA: Strategies for building local support for planning climate action.

Local organizations team up to build community center

A new hub for one Grand Rapids community is in the works. But funds need to be raised to buy and renovate the building first.

Museum awarded grant to expand community-centered practices

The initiative will support an institution-wide effort to build capacities for expanded community engagement.

Community overdose prevention training held at Shelburne-Buckland Community Center

Participants learned how to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose and how to administer a lifesaving opioid overdose reversal drug.