Community Resilience Planning Guide
The Berry Creek fire in Northern California in September, 2020 was heartbreaking. Not far from the Camp Fire of November 8, 2018 which decimated Paradise,
Bob Stilger
December 30, 2020
Food for Thought Category: Community Engagement
Finding Our Next Now
A momentous time in the Divided States of America. How will we find our way forward now? Diversity and difference are critical ingredients for creativity.
Bob Stilger
November 4, 2020
NAACP’s In The Eye of The Storm
This 2018 publication from the NAACP describes how environmental justice and climate justice are civil and human rights issues. They started the Environmental and Climate Justice
Bob Stilger
October 26, 2020
Principles of Life Affirming Leadership
In the first decade of this century, NewStories and The Berkana Institute worked close with people and communities throughout the world and primarily in the
Bob Stilger
October 26, 2020
Collapse and Regeneration
Walking the Line Between Denial and Despair A couple of months ago, I received an email from Jenn Meilleur, our soon to be new Executive
Bob Stilger
March 14, 2020
One Story: A Report of The First Peoples’ Convening on Climate-Forced Displacement
One Story That was what we heard and saw as each of 28 different communities, spread from the Alaska to the South Pacific, from Bangladesh
Bob Stilger
June 20, 2019
Project30
When disaster strikes, communities come together. Government, businesses, nonprofits, community groups and citizens set aside suspicions and grievances and just do what needs to be
Bob Stilger
May 7, 2019
Borrow The Sugar
What does it take to come back into relationship with each other and our beautiful planet? Why is it important? What shifts when we do?
Bob Stilger
April 12, 2019
Sustaining Change in a Market Economy
Hanimin Liu offers the inescapable conclusion is that change is gradual and generation and requires persistence in patience. How do we take this truth on in our impatient world?
Bob Stilger
September 9, 2018
Developmental Evaluation Primer
Developmental Evaluation is the one of the most developed “complexity-aware” evaluation approaches. This PDF, developed by Canada’s McConnell Foundation provides an excellent overview.
Bob Stilger
September 7, 2018
The NewStories Regenerating Communities Spiral
NewStories Introduces a framework — the Spiral of Co-Creating — as a new way to look at how we can create collective impact.
Bob Stilger
September 1, 2018
Methods for Dialogue and Conversation
How do we design and host conversations that matter? This PDF shares the approaches Bob Stilger used in Japan for five years after the the Triple Disasters of March 11, 2011.
Bob Stilger
August 13, 2018
