{"id":3439,"date":"2016-07-18T12:30:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T16:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2016-07-15T13:53:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T17:53:49","slug":"communities-complexities-and-commonalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/2016\/07\/communities-complexities-and-commonalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Communities, Complexities and Commonalities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What does community mean to you? What are the most important aspects of a community?<\/p>\n

In this Stanford Social Innovation Review article<\/a>, David Chavis and Kien Lee discuss many of the elements that are key to community: location, meeting common needs, a sense of safety and belonging, and a shared history. They also point out the complex nature of communities:<\/p>\n

“When a funder or evaluator looks at a neighborhood, they often struggle with its boundaries, as if streets can bind social relationships. Often they see a neighborhood as the community, when, in fact, many communities are likely to exist within it, and each likely extends well beyond the physical boundaries of the neighborhood.”<\/em><\/p>\n

What do you think of this definition of community? What are some “matryoshka doll” communities you’ve encountered? Would you even categorize them in that way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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