by Pam Rempe | Dec 16, 2025 | Imagine the Possibilities, Pursue the Common Good
Originally Published Dec 15, 2021 Every year at our church, we have a Christmas Eve service which is led by the children’s ministry. It is always endearing to see the children in their costumes and Christmas outfits, putting on a program for their parents. They...
by Jennifer Prophete | Nov 11, 2025 | Getting to Know Your Neighbors, Imagine the Possibilities
Our team listens to a lot of stories. One of the many benefits of the work we do is having the ability to share these stories. To help spread the good parts of neighboring around the country, and to use those collective “good parts” to help make the “hard parts” a...
by Pam Rempe | Oct 28, 2025 | Imagine the Possibilities, Neighborhood Well-being
There’s a story that’s stayed with me over the years—one that reminds me how our perspectives can be clouded by our own lenses. In the story, there is a man who repeatedly criticizes his neighbor’s dirty curtains. Every day, the man peers out of the front window and...
by Jennifer Prophete | Oct 7, 2025 | Imagine the Possibilities
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”Aesop We love big things. Big yards, big houses, big vehicles, big titles, big numbers…. All these big things get attention in our news feeds, in our conversations, and even in our own minds. But, despite our...
by Jennifer Prophete | Sep 22, 2025 | Fundraising, Imagine the Possibilities, Pursue the Common Good, Uncategorized
What we learned from our neighborhood gathering experiment in Charlottesville – and how you can host a gathering of your own through our new $50 microgrant. Original newsletter posted on September 17th, 2025 in The Connective Tissue newsletter written by Sam Pressler....
by Pam Rempe | Sep 9, 2025 | Imagine the Possibilities, Neighborhood Well-being
I recently read Dawn Staley’s new book, Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All Three. Dawn is the head coach of the University of South Carolina’s women’s basketball team. In her book, she speaks...
